Accord
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Peace agreements
- Arab-Israeli conflict
- Camp David AccordsCamp David AccordsThe Camp David Accords were signed by Egyptian President Anwar El Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin on September 17, 1978, following thirteen days of secret negotiations at Camp David. The two framework agreements were signed at the White House, and were witnessed by United States...
(1978) in the Egypt-Israel conflict - Oslo AccordsOslo AccordsThe Oslo Accords, officially called the Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Government Arrangements or Declaration of Principles , was an attempt to resolve the ongoing Palestinian-Israeli conflict...
(1993), part of a peace process of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
- Camp David Accords
- Geneva AccordGeneva AccordThe Geneva Initiative, also known as the Geneva Accord, is a model permanent status agreement to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict based on previous official negotiations, international resolutions, the Quartet Roadmap, the Clinton Parameters, and the Arab Peace Initiative...
(2003), an extra-governmental peace proposal in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict - Sierra Leone Civil War
- Abidjan Peace AccordAbidjan Peace AccordThe Abidjan Peace Accord was a treaty signed between the Sierra Leone People's Party government of Ahmad Tejan Kabbah, and the Revolutionary United Front rebel group led by Foday Sankoh to find a resolution to the Sierra Leone Civil War...
(1996) - Lomé Peace AccordLomé Peace AccordThe Lomé Peace Accord was a peace agreement signed on 7 July 1999 between the warring parties in the civil war that gripped Sierra Leone for almost a decade. President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah signed with the Revolutionary United Front leader, Foday Sankoh, granting Sankoh a position in the...
(1999)
- Abidjan Peace Accord
- Nkomati AccordNkomati AccordThe Nkomati Accord was a non-aggression pact signed on 16 March 1984 between the government of the People's Republic of Mozambique and the government of the Republic of South Africa. The event took place at the South African town of Komatipoort with the signatories being Samora Machel and PW Botha...
(1984) between Mozambique and South Africa - Bicesse AccordsBicesse AccordsThe Bicesse Accords, also known as the Estoril Accords, laid out a transition to multi-party democracy in Angola under the supervision of the United Nations' UNAVEM II mission. President José Eduardo dos Santos of the MPLA and Jonas Savimbi of UNITA signed the accord in Lisbon, Portugal on May 31,...
(1991) in the Angolan civil war - Dakar AccordDakar AccordThe Dakar accord is a peace agreement between Chad and Sudan that is expected to be released to the public on August 9, 2006. The Accord, which comes only weeks after the N'Djamena Agreement, signed on July 26, and a few months after the Tripoli Accord, signed on February 8, aims to normalize ties...
(2006) between Chad and Sudan - Waziristan accordWaziristan accordThe Waziristan Accord was an agreement between the government of Pakistan and tribals, resident in the Waziristan area to mutually cease hostilities in North Waziristan . The agreement was signed on 5 September 2006 in the North Waziristan town of Miranshah...
(2006) between the government of Pakistan and tribals resident in the Waziristan area
International economics agreements
- Plaza AccordPlaza AccordThe Plaza Accord or Plaza Agreement was an agreement between the governments of France, West Germany, Japan, the United States, and the United Kingdom, to depreciate the U.S. dollar in relation to the Japanese yen and German Deutsche Mark by intervening in currency markets...
(1985) to devalue the US dollar - Louvre AccordLouvre AccordThe Louvre Accord was signed by the then G6 on February 22, 1987 in Paris, France. Italy had been an invited member, but declined to finalize the agreement...
(1987) to stabilise the international currency markets - Basel AccordBasel AccordThe Basel Accords refer to the banking supervision Accords —Basel I and Basel II issued and Basel III—by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision ....
s (1988/1996 and 2004) in banking
Political parties and groups of parties
- Accord (Nigeria)Accord (Nigeria)Accord is a political party in Nigeria. In the 21 April 2007 National Assembly of Nigeria election, the party won no seats in the House of Representatives and 1 out of 109 seats in the Senate....
- Coalition of People's AccordCoalition of People's AccordCoalition of People's Accord was the bloc of mostly moderate nationalist and liberal parties formed on the eve of first multi-party elections in Croatia in 1990....
, a former political bloc in Croatia - Iraqi National AccordIraqi National AccordThe Iraqi National Accord known inside Iraq as Wifaq is an Iraqi political party founded by Iyad Allawi and Salah Omar Al-Ali in 1991. Al-Ali subsequently left the party after he realised the extent of Allawi's links to foreign intelligence agencies, mainly the C.I.A. and MI6.It was founded at the...
, an Iraqi political party - Iraqi Accord FrontIraqi Accord FrontThe Iraqi Accord Front or Iraqi Accordance Front also known as Tawafuq is an Iraqi Sunni-Islamist political coalition created on October 26, 2005 by the Iraqi Islamic Party to contest the December 2005 general election...
, an Iraqi political coalition - Labor-Green AccordLabor-Green AccordThe Labor–Green Accord was a 1989 political agreement between the Australian Labor Party and the Tasmanian Greens to form government in the Australian state of Tasmania after the 1989 general election had resulted in a hung parliament.-1989 Tasmanian election:The election took place on 13 May 1989...
(1989–1992) in Tasmania, Australia
Miscellaneous agreements
- Kyoto Accord, the Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
- 1951 Accord1951 AccordThe 1951 Accord, also known simply as the Accord, was an agreement between the U.S. Department of the Treasury and the Federal Reserve that restored independence to the Fed....
in American politics - Prices and Incomes Accord (1980s) in Australian industrial relations
- Meech Lake AccordMeech Lake AccordThe Meech Lake Accord was a package of proposed amendments to the Constitution of Canada negotiated in 1987 by Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and ten provincial premiers. It was intended to persuade the government of the Province of Quebec to endorse the 1982 Canadian Constitution and increase...
(1987) in Canadian constitutional development - Charlottetown AccordCharlottetown AccordThe Charlottetown Accord was a package of proposed amendments to the Constitution of Canada, proposed by the Canadian federal and provincial governments in 1992. It was submitted to a public referendum on October 26 of that year, and was defeated.-Background:...
(1992) in Canadian constitutional development - Nouméa AccordNouméa AccordThe Nouméa Accord of 1998 promises to grant political power to New Caledonia and its original population, the Kanaks, until the territory decides whether to remain within the French Republic or become an independent state in a referendum to be held between 2014 and 2019...
(1998) in New Caledonian politics
International accreditation agreements
- Washington AccordWashington AccordThe Washington Accord is an international accreditation agreement for professional engineering academic degrees, between the bodies responsible for accreditation in its signatory countries...
(1989) for professional engineering degree programs - Sydney AccordSydney AccordThe Sydney Accord is an international mutual recognition agreement for qualifications in the fields of engineering technology.-Definition and background:...
(2001) for engineering technologist qualifications.
Miscellaneous
- Accord and satisfactionAccord and satisfactionAccord and satisfaction is a contract law concept about the purchase of the release from a debt obligation. The payment is typically less than what is owed and is not paid by the actual performance of the original obligation...
in contract law - Honda AccordHonda AccordThe Honda Accord is a series of compact, mid-size and full-size automobiles manufactured by Honda since 1976, and sold in a majority of automotive markets throughout the world....
, a popular car by Honda Motor Company - Bon Accord FC
- Accord plc, a public services provider in South England.
- ACCORDACCORDAccord is a trade union for HBOS workers within the Lloyds Banking Group. It has more than 30,000 members and is affiliated to the Trades Union Congress, the Scottish Trades Union Congress and the Irish Congress of Trade Unions....
, a trade union - Austrian Centre for Country of Origin and Asylum Research and Documentation (ACCORD)
- Accord (coalition)Accord (coalition)The Accord Coalition is a campaign coalition, launched in 2008, which brings together a wide range of member organisations, both religious and non-religious, that are concerned that legislation around admissions, employment and the curriculum in state funded faith schools in England and Wales can...
, a campaign for reform of faith schools in Britain