Most countries, the United States being the chief exception, also signed a treaty aimed at better conserving the world's dwindling inventory of living species.

Reducing Global Warming After four years of talks, a treaty aimed at curtailing global warming faces great obstacles as officials haggle over the fine print.

The scientists say the drop, 13 percent since 1998, is attributable to mandatory curbs on the chemical under the Montreal Protocol, a 1987 treaty aimed at restoring the layer.

This Convention was the first international treaty aimed at protecting Cultural heritage in the context of war and which highlighted the concept of Common heritage.

That was the reaction across much of Europe last week when Irish voters rejected a treaty aimed at enlarging the European Union.

President Vladimir V. Putin said Russia had not yet decided whether to ratify the international treaty aimed at reducing emissions linked to global warming.

The enrichment, in January 2000, apparently violated several treaties aimed at keeping the Korean peninsula free of nuclear weapons and weapons-grade fuel.

Of course we have to be concerned about whether a treaty aimed at protecting the climate actually delivers.

Some said this should energize those pressing for enactment of the Kyoto Protocol, the treaty aimed at curbing gases linked to global warming.

In April of 1996, China, Russia and three former Soviet Republics signed a treaty aimed at reducing tensions along their borders.