11.   A provision of the ICC treaty recognizes existing agreements between countries.

12.   Adding a fifth bowl likely would mean extending the existing BCS agreement, which has three more years remaining, with an option for three more.

13.   Brahimi effectively ruled out a U.N. peacekeeping force, arguing that these were intended to monitor existing agreements and took a long time to set up.

14.   But in its essence, it is more than a revision of the existing agreement.

15.   But on Wednesday, the big drug companies played down the significance of the declaration, which is intended to clarify an existing global agreement on patents.

16.   But the much-feared power of the WTO to overrule local laws is strictly limited to enforcement of the spirit of existing agreements.

17.   Clinton called on both sides to abide by existing agreements and to complete the so-called final status talks within a year.

18.   Consumer groups complained that the existing agreement limited competition among dealers and allowed carmakers to charge different prices in EU countries.

19.   Even then, each country will enforce existing agreements with different levels of urgency.

20.   For a cooperative approach to work, he said, Japan must vigorously deregulate its economy and both countries must strive to make existing agreements work.