
Oceania
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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Accession terms were agreed after eighteen months. Tariff schedules phase in over seven years.
Grace Tui · Auckland · 21 Aug · 5 min read
European security architecture
A scheduled review is postponed; the working group is kept in place.
Planning assumptions written in the previous decade are formally withdrawn.
An internal costing is released showing a multi-year shortfall.
The first text mentioning explicit guarantees reaches delegations.
Nineteen delegations arrive with three competing drafts.
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