The Vipava Valley, through which Alboin led the Lombards into ItalyAs a precautionary move Alboin strengthened his alliance with the Avars, signing what Paul calls a foedus perpetuum (" perpetual treaty ") and what is referred to in the 9th-century Historia Langobardorum codicis Gothani as a pactum et foedus amicitiae (" pact and treaty of friendship "), adding that the treaty was put down on paper.

EMU is established through a currency-related trade pact.

A free-trade area is a result of a free-trade agreement ( a form of trade pact ) between two or more countries.

There are also military ties between Afghanistan and India, which is expected to increase after the October 2011 strategic pact that was signed by President Karzai and Manmohan Singh.

In modern practice, it is an air-cooled medium machine gun, firing rifle cartridges such as the 7. 62 × 51mm NATO, 7. 62 × 54mmR Warsaw pact, or 7. 92x57mm Mauser.

India is one of the only three nations with whom Japan has a security pact, the other two being the United States and Australia.

Nevertheless, the pact is an important multilateral treaty because, in addition to binding the particular nations that signed it, it has also served as one of the legal bases establishing the international norms that the threat or use of military force in contravention of international law, as well as the territorial acquisitions resulting from it, are unlawful.

On 24 August a 10-year non-aggression pact was signed with provisions that included: consultation ; arbitration if either party disagreed ; neutrality if either went to war against a third power ; no membership of a group " which is directly or indirectly aimed at the other.

Upon signing the pact, Molotov tried to reassure the Germans of his good intentions by commenting to journalists that " fascism is a matter of taste ".

Later, the pact is commonly referred to as the Double-Ten Agreement.

In their origins, these usages derived from pagus, " province, countryside ", cognate to Greek πάγος " rocky hill ", and, even earlier, " something stuck in the ground ", as a landmark: the Proto-Indo-European root * pag-means " fixed " and is also the source of the words page, pale ( stake ), and pole, as well as pact and peace.

In its most common sense, the principle refers to private contracts, stressing that contained clauses are law between the parties, and implies that nonfulfilment of respective obligations is a breach of the pact.

The pact is often interpreted as a sign of their deep patriotism despite both having already surrendered to the English.

The family is second in prestige only to the Al Saud ( the royal family ) with whom they formed a " mutual support pact " and power-sharing arrangement nearly 300 years ago.

The pact, which persists to this day, is based on the Al Saud maintaining the Al ash-Sheikh's authority in religious matters and upholding and propagating Wahhabi doctrine.

Native American casinos located in reservations are not permitted to have slot machines unless the tribe first reaches a pact with the state in which it is located ( per Indian Gaming Regulatory Act ).

* September 21 – A nuclear non-proliferation pact is signed by 15 countries, including the United States and the Soviet Union.

* A pact of non-aggression and friendship is signed between the Roman Empire, represented by Tiberius, and the German tribe the Cherusci, represented by their King Segimer.

Use of that water belonging to the United States is regulated by the Rio Grande Compact, an interstate pact between Colorado, New Mexico, and Texas.

Historically, a dhimmi was a person who is protected under Islamic law by a pact contracted between non-Muslims and authorities from their Muslim government: this status was first made available to non-Muslims who were People of the Book ( e. g. Jews and Christians ), but was later extended to include Sikhs, Zoroastrians, Mandeans, Hindus and Buddhists.

Of equal importance is the parallel narrative of a maize hero defeating the deities of Thunder and Lightning and establishing a pact with them.

The pact helped to assure Rome's grain supply, the blockade on Italy is lifted.

An alliance is a pact, coalition or friendship between two or more parties, made in order to advance common goals and to secure common interests.

Forget the idea that some pact is reached first.

They also renewed the pact between the Popes and the kings of the Franks, confirming the privileges of the Roman church, and the continued existence of the recently emerged Papal States.

He returned to Poland in the April 1939, after Nazi Germany had cancelled the Polish-German non-aggression pact of 1934, hoping that the renewed threat to Polish independence would help overcome the domestic political cleavage.

Although Vladimir Rurikovich renewed his pact with Daniil Romanovich, Mikhail and Iziaslav Vladimirovich continued waging war against them.

Meanwhile, king Béla IV of Hungary renewed his father ’ s pact with Mikhail, and seemingly relinquished his claim to Halych and also agreed to give Mikhail military aid.

The three cantons renewed their alliance in the pact of Brunnen, and Louis IV reconfirmed their Reichsfreiheit.

For centuries, a pact between the two has been observed to maintain peace, and terms must be negotiated and renewed every few hundred years to continue relative harmony.

This renewed coalition, called Compromís pel País Valencià, indeed achieved representation with seven MPs, two of which corresponded to Bloc according to the coalition pact rules.

* During World War II, the secret protocol in Molotov-Ribbentrop pact enabled Winter War ( 1939 – 40 ), a Soviet attack on Finland.

Although the administration made progress on such issues as taking state responsibility for past human rights cases and supporting human rights in international fora, it failed to show significant advances on combating impunity in past human rights cases, military reforms, a fiscal pact to help finance peace implementation, and legislation to increase political participation.

After allying with Mussolini's Italy in the " Pact of Steel " and signing a non-aggression pact with the Soviet Union, the German dictator Adolf Hitler started the Second World War on 1 September 1939 attacking Poland and following a military build-up throughout the late 1930s.

In 1939, the Polish government rejected the German offer of forming an alliance on terms which would amount to an end or severe curtailment of Poland's sovereignty ; Hitler abrogated the Polish-German pact.

India and Japan signed a security cooperation agreement in which both will hold military exercises, police the Indian Ocean and conduct military-to-military exchanges on fighting terrorism, making India one of only three countries, the other two being the United States and Australia, with which Japan has such a security pact.

After a failed attempt to sign an anti-German military alliance with France and Britain and talks with Germany regarding a potential political deal, on 23 August 1939, the Soviet Union entered into a non-aggression pact with Nazi Germany, negotiated by Soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov and German foreign minister Joachim von Ribbentrop.

In an effort to demonstrate peaceful intentions toward Germany, on 13 April 1941, Stalin oversaw the signing of a neutrality pact with Axis power Japan.

During the early morning of 22 June 1941, Adolf Hitler broke the pact by implementing Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of Soviet held territories and the Soviet Union that began the war on the Eastern Front.

Ribbentrop played a key role in the conclusion of a Soviet-German non-aggression pact, the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, in 1939, and in the diplomatic action surrounding the attack on Poland.

He agreed to a modification of the mutual defence pact with the U. S. granting staging rights on 24-hour notice at Liberia's sea-and airports for the U. S. Rapid Deployment Forces.

That night, Stalin replied that the Soviets were willing to sign the pact, and that he would receive Ribbentrop on 23 August.

Germany and the Soviet Union entered an intricate trade pact on February 11, 1940, that was over four times larger than the one the two countries had signed in August 1939.

In an effort to demonstrate peaceful intentions toward Germany, on 13 April 1941, the Soviets signed a neutrality pact with Axis power Japan.

In 1939, the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany agreed to both a non-aggression pact and an agreement to invade and partition Poland between them, resulting in the invasion of Poland in September 1939 by Germany and the Soviet Union and the beginning of World War II, with the Allies declaring war on Germany.

A secret protocol to the pact outlined an agreement between the Third Reich and the Soviet Union on the division of the border states between their respective " spheres of influence ".

Meanwhile the papal pact solidified with Charles a promise of papal ships and men, produced by a crusading tithe, and Charles's promise not to lay claims on Imperial lands in northern Italy, nor in the Papal States.

The pact was ratified as a constitutional amendment by a national plebiscite on 1 December 1957 and was supported by the Roman Catholic Church as well as Colombia ’ s business leaders.

On the conclusion of talks in London, Britain agreed to grant Sierra Leone Independence on the 27 of April 1961. however, the outspoken trade unionist Siaka Stevens was the only delegate who refused to sign Sierra Leone's declaration of Independendence on the grounds that there had been a secret defence pact between Sierra Leone and Britain ; another point of contention by Stevens was the Sierra Leonean government's position that there would be no elections held before independence which would effectively shut him out of Sierra Leone's political process.

Unreported at the time, Crash had overdosed on China white heroin in a suicide pact with close friend Casey Cola, who ended up surviving.

I used to make a difference and think: " These people here are damned fools but in Russia they have got the real thing ," until I learned about the Hitler-Stalin pact, and gave up on the USSR.