However, former Soviet Foreign Minister Andrej Gromyko rejected the proposal because of the allegedly inferior status of the agreement between congress and the executive. Footnote 12 Similarly, the United States and Russia agreed during the Strategic Offensive Reduction Treaty (SORT) negotiations to reduce their arsenal of active nuclear warheads to 1700 to 2,200 each. President Putin insisted that the agreement be codified as a formal treaty and issued considerable bargaining power to convince President Bush, who favors an agreement between Congress and the executive. Note 13 Outside the context of nuclear disarmament, negotiators also drew attention to the treaty as the intended and more serious form of engagement. For example, when former Philippine President Corazon Aquino took office, she expressed her intention to replace the current agreements between Congress and the executive branch that govern the status of the United States. Military bases in the Philippines through “full-fledged” contracts. Footnote 14 Figure 3 shows the estimated cumulative survival and hazard curves for the preferred model (5), one of which is a contract and an executive agreement. Digital koviatres have been centered around their average. For categorical variables, the most common value is used. Footnote 100 60 See Table 3 below, which shows the share of agreements in the form of a contract for a number of different countries. .