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Pacific trade pact adds two members
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Pacific trade pact adds two members

Accession terms were agreed after eighteen months. Tariff schedules phase in over seven years.

Grace Tui · Auckland · 21 Aug · 5 min read

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European security architecture

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  1. A scheduled review is postponed; the working group is kept in place.

  2. Planning assumptions written in the previous decade are formally withdrawn.

  3. An internal costing is released showing a multi-year shortfall.

  4. The first text mentioning explicit guarantees reaches delegations.

  5. Nineteen delegations arrive with three competing drafts.

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