In his speech, Mr. Kozyrev also praised the nonproliferation treaty, the future of which is being decided here, and strongly supported its indefinite and unconditional extension.

Mr. Mubarak did not say explicitly today that his country would support the permanent and unconditional extension of the nuclear accord, as the United States is pushing.

Earlier, on May 28, President Bush had announced his support for unconditional extension of MFN status.

The adoption of the treaty followed by a little more than a year the indefinite and unconditional extension of a separate treaty barring the spread of nuclear arms and weapons technology.

More than 300 large corporations and trade associations wrote him on May 12 urging an unconditional extension.

Tribune, in its own statement, said that "Cablevision took this action despite our offer of an unconditional extension of the current carriage agreement with no change in terms while negotiations continued.

An eclectic alliance of trade protectionists, anti-Communist conservatives and liberal human rights advocates opposes an unconditional extension.

Because Hong Kong depends a great deal on China for its economic livelihood, the vote, which makes likely the prospect of unconditional extension of the benefits, touched off even greater business optimism.

Following several rounds of talks in which the European Union presented a united front agreement was finally reached on an unconditional extension sine die .

China acceded to the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) in 1992 and supported its indefinite and unconditional extension in 1995.