Serious peace negotiations started this year, culminating in the October agreement.

But Western diplomats said the Walker issue was a smoke screen for the real problem, the Serbian refusal to comply with the October agreement.

This was to be a serious negotiating session in which they told Mr. Milosevic he was violating the October agreement.

Development on the title began within two months of the October 2007 agreement with the intention of a mid-2010 release.

Under the terms of the October agreement, Mr. Milosevic was also supposed to reduce the number of special paramilitary police officers to 6,500.

In the end, the company's actual operating profits for 1988 were $29.6 million, considerably below the $48.1 million listed in the October stock-purchase agreement.

Above all the Eurozone needs to focus at the very least on implementing its October agreement.

It said the October agreement had settled all claims and that, in any case, the Conasupo budget did not have a spare $7 million extra.

North Korea failed to spell out today the exact steps it would take if it abandons the October agreement.

But State Department officials said the October agreement calls for easing the sanctions on trade, telecommunications links or financial transactions.