1.   An accord was signed on setting up a joint economic co-operation commission, and another agreement was initialled on investment promotion and protection.

2.   The USA, European Communities, Japan and Russia initialled an agreement establishing an international science and technology centre to employ ex-Soviet nuclear scientists.

3.   At Dayton, the Bosnian Serb delegation initially refused to initial the agreement, in large measure because of the provision for unifying Sarajevo.

4.   After three days of intense negotiations, the United States and Italy have initialed an agreement to drop restrictions on air traffic between the two countries.

5.   Agreement could be initialed in the coming days.

6.   Immediately after the agreement was initialed, Israel withdrew into the mandatory, two-day calm of Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year.

7.   Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic initialed the agreement last month in Dayton, Ohio, as did Bosnian President Alija Izetbegovic and Croatian President Franjo Tudjman.

8.   That delayed negotiations so that the agreement was finally initialled only two and a half hours before the Jewish New Year brought down the curtain Sunday evening.

9.   That was followed by Ukrainian officials initialing an agreement on closer cooperation with NATO in Sintra, Portugal.

10.   The presidents of Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay on Tuesday will initial agreements to phase out trade barriers with their Andean neighbors.