21.   Israel and the United States signed a strategic cooperation pact last month to protect Israel against ballistic missile attacks.

22.   Its goal is to be admitted into Partnership for Peace, a first-step cooperation pact with the NATO alliance.

23.   Last month, Australia entered into a similar bilateral security cooperation pact with Indonesia, officially ending an era of mutual suspicion.

24.   Last week, the EU pulled out of a scientific cooperation pact.

25.   On Friday, the EU put the brakes on a scientific cooperation pact with Canada.

26.   Russia and Vietnam signed an economic cooperation pact Monday following a meeting between Russian Prime Minister Victor Chernomyrdin and his Vietnamese counterpart, Phan Van Khai.

27.   Protesting the seizure, the European Union on Friday postponed plans to sign a scientific cooperation pact with Ottawa.

28.   She said Norway now would depend more heavily on regional cooperation pacts such as the Nordic Council and the European Free Trade Association, or EFTA.

29.   The Berlingske Tidende daily newspaper said the two airlines may announce a cooperation pact Thursday, when SAS is due to present its first-quarter earnings.

30.   The agreement was the first chapter of a cooperation pact that will eventually give Ukraine stepped up political links with the Union.