Draft:Initialing

When people are negotiating an agreement, they may complete their negotiations and agree on a text without being ready to sign it and make it binding. In such circumstances they may initial the agreement to certify that this is the text on which they have agreed.^[1]

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Sometimes the gap between initialing and signing an agreement is largely a formality. For example, when Le Duc Tho and Henry Kissinger initialed the text of the Paris Peace Accords in regard to the Vietnam War on January 24, 1973, they agreed that a formal signing ceremony would occur on January 27. But sometimes negotiators will agree on a text, and initial it, without being able to promise that the governments they represent will approve the agreement and authorize that it be signed.