Pennsylvania is not one of the nine states in the regional pact, but it has been participating in meetings as an official observer and may eventually join.

He added, "So the great advantage of regional pacts is that they can exclude Japan."

Privatization plans and regional pacts hardly seem typical Peronist schemes, and they aren't.

However prior to this, aware of the country's vulnerability to outside forces, president Chamoun looked to regional pacts to ensure protection from foreign armies.

NATO is a strictly regional pact, limited to attacks on members in Europe and North America.

August 1983: Managua offers to sign a regional pact barring foreign bases, foreign advisers and violation of frontiers.

In that event, as envisioned in the regional pact, the contras and their leaders could participate freely in Nicaraguan politics.

Mr President, I do indeed believe that we should be moving more towards regional pacts and municipal pacts.

Mr Camisón raises the question of regional pacts on employment.

Mention has been made of regional pacts.