The way the new agreement was finally stitched together boded reasonably well for the broader negotiations, the American official said.

After three days of talks, their foreign ministers agreed to make Kashmir a separate topic for discussion within broader negotiations aimed at achieving detente.

Well, why not open broad negotiations with the Castro regime?

Mr. Clinton's aides have left open the door to discussing a repeal of the gasoline tax but only as part of broader legislative negotiations.

But formation of a government will require broader negotiations that could drag on for some time.

Two weeks after these talks begin, Mr. Baker promised that the broad negotiations would take place over regional problems.

But the progress announced today does not assure that these broader negotiations will be successfully concluded.

Red Cross officials had hoped that successful completion of the operation would create new momentum for broader negotiations on an end to the war.

Many view this as a litmus test of industrialised countries' commitment to progress in the broader negotiations.

Instead it appeared that the two countries remain committed to the policies on Kashmir that doomed the effort to open broader negotiations last year.