The indications are that any new treaty would commit eurozone members to balancing all future budgets.

If enacted, the treaty would commit three dozen industrial countries to cut their greenhouse-gas emissions by 2012 at least 5 percent below the levels in 1990.

The treaty also committed the five countries to restrict the activities of exiles from neighboring states and provided the basis for legal extraditions.

The treaty of Hudaybiyyah committed both sides to a ten-year truce.

The treaty committed both parties to "close, peaceful co-operation in a spirit of partnership" and to mutual non-aggression.

The treaty commits the two nations to peaceful relations and resolves some territorial issues.

The nonproliferation treaty commits the North not to build nuclear weapons and provides for regular inspection of its nuclear facilities.

The treaty would commit industrial countries between 2008 and 2012 to cut their combined greenhouse gas emissions to 5 percent below 1990 levels.

The treaty also commits governments to forge common foreign and defense policies as a way of giving the region new clout in world affairs.

The treaty not only commits nonnuclear countries to refrain from developing weapons.