"I think you may call it a historic accord," Hisham M. Nazer, Saudi Arabia's oil minister, said in an interview here.

The heads of both governments were expected to come out against holding any discussion on their common border, which is 4,400 kilometres long and was the subject of an historic accord in March 1991.

Armenia and Turkey are due to sign historic accords ending a century of hostility on Saturday.

The records show the government clearly had a voice in the closed-door negotiations, though it was not a signatory to the historic accord, which isn't an actual government policy.

The officials gave the Palestinians and Israelis full credit for their role in reaching preliminary agreements that could turn into historic accords.

When they did come back together the two Koreas reached an historic accord: A December, 1991 agreement on peace and denuclearization.

Lately he has talked of pressing for a historic accord on a uniform conversion process.

"With the interpretation dispute now resolved, I expect the Senate to act promptly to bring this historic accord into effect."

A year ago this week, the two sides finally struck what seemed like a historic accord on "Reconciliation, Nonaggression and Exchanges and Cooperation."

Twice in the last seven months he has invested enormous amounts of time and prestige in an attempt to reach historic accords between Israel and its neighbors, first the Syrians, then the Palestinians.