The Washington accords should pave the way for a lasting peace.

We don't make crooked deals. That's only at Sukhi's place.

That's what you said. I didn't make any deals.

And in that manner, we can probably arrive at closer agreements with nations.

There is no way we should do business with companies that have agreements with stealth provisions and that are unintelligible.

Exchanges of visits with States in Africa have also taken place with a view to agreements on the use of medical isotopes and training programmes.

It would hasten how quickly people arrive at an agreement, and so it would save everybody a lot of grief and time.

It was with real relief that we received the results of the Geneva negotiations between the various parties to the conflict in Liberia, which led to the signing of the Cotonou agreements in Benin.

And that is now what we're trying to do, and working with this large cities group to fight climate change, to negotiate huge, big, volume deals that will enable cities which generate 75 percent of the world's greenhouse gases, to drastically and quickly reduce greenhouse gas emissions in a way that is good economics.

We tried to do the same thing by negotiating industry right deals with the soft drink and the snack food industry to cut the caloric and other dangerous content of food going to our children in the schools.

Obviously, the peace agreements and their effective implementation are an indispensable condition for the withdrawal of the mercenaries who have taken part in the conflicts and whose presence has been reported, admitted, relativized and explained by some of the parties.

And that is now what we're trying to do, and working with this large cities group to fight climate change, to negotiate huge, big, volume deals that will enable cities which generate 75 percent of the world's greenhouse gases, to drastically and quickly reduce greenhouse gas emissions in a way that is good economics.