Washington's negotiators are burdened by the Pentagon's insistence on two exceptions that could sabotage efforts to negotiate a worldwide treaty.

And in another shift, he backed away from his contentious decision to keep the option of producing chemical weapons after a worldwide treaty is reached to phase them out.

The worldwide treaty signed here would ban the production, sale and use of antipersonnel land mines.

Although a worldwide treaty, the Kyoto Protocol has also been criticized.

He said any worldwide treaty should call for eliminating 98 percent of American stocks over eight years.

Canada is leading a push for a worldwide treaty banning land mines to be signed by December.

While we want a very strong Army, we want to respect all our treaties, worldwide treaties.

Washington favors a worldwide treaty banning the manufacture, use, stockpiling and sale of these mines.

The logical place to negotiate a worldwide treaty is at the international Conference on Disarmament.

So what we need - and I ask the Commission if it is ready to do this - is a worldwide non-proliferation treaty for cloning techniques.