51.   A trade co-operation agreement was signed the next day.

52.   Nine CIS member states had also signed an agreement at the Alma Ata meeting setting up a council to co-ordinate the work of their intelligence services.

53.   On the same day an agreement was signed between the Commonwealth of Independent States and Czechoslovakia settling remaining issues concerning the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Czechoslovakia.

54.   Fiji and Papua New Guinea were the only two Forum members not to sign the agreement.

55.   Agreements were signed on cultural relations and on science and technology co-operation, and on honouring the memory of the dead from the last wars.

56.   Bruno Trentin, leader of the communist CGIL trade union federation, resigned after signing the agreement, after many union members had expressed dissatisfaction.

57.   An agreement was also signed promoting co-operation in scientific and technological policy, electronics, food processing, silicon technology and industrial research.

58.   Separate agreements were signed on military cooperation and on the formation of an intergovernmental commission on trade, economic and scientific co-operation.

59.   Other co-operation agreements were signed, covering economics, trade, transport, technical affairs, culture and drug policing.

60.   Minor agreements were signed on cultural and scientific co-operation and a consular convention in preparation for a full-scale treaty.