11.   The U.S. has initialed identical agreements with Taiwan and Brunei and is on the verge of initialing an open skies pact with Malaysia.

12.   The U.S. is pushing to pick up the pace and get an agreement initialed at the WTO ministerial meeting next month in Singapore.

13.   Until now, Croatia, Bosnia and Serbia had recognized each other only implicitly, by initialing the agreement worked out in Dayton.

14.   After a summit, the agreement would be initialed by the heads of the negotiating teams.

15.   After yearlong talks and arguments, the leaders of Croatia and the Bosnian Muslim-Croat federation initialed an agreement Tuesday, defining bilateral relations.

16.   Austria, Luxembourg, Belgium, Finland, Sweden and Denmark are negotiating or have already initialed such agreements with the United States on bilateral landing rights deals.

17.   Bosnian President Alija Izetbegovic, Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic and Croatian President Franjo Tudjman initialed the agreement under the watchful eyes of U.S. and international mediators.

18.   But there was some doubt whether the delegations in Vienna would, as originally planned, initial the agreement.

19.   Five northeastern Asian nations initialled an agreement Tuesday on moving ahead with an ambitious plan to develop a special economic zone along the mouth of the Tumen River.

20.   It said the agreement was initialled by Trade and Industry Minister Ali Abu-Ragheb and his visiting Algerian counterpart, Abdul-Karim Hirshawi.