21.   Both leaders are set to sign a landmark nuclear disarmament treaty in Moscow Friday.

22.   Burma, Cambodia and Laos were also signatories to the landmark treaty.

23.   Earlier Bush and Putin signed a landmark disarmament treaty and an anti-terrorist declaration at a summit meeting in the Kremlin.

24.   Earlier Bush and Russian president Vladimir Putin signed a landmark disarmament treaty and an anti-terrorist declaration at a summit meeting in the Kremlin.

25.   UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Friday welcomed the ratification by the US senate of a landmark international treaty banning chemical weapons.

26.   President Bill Clinton chided the Republican-controlled Senate Friday over holding up the ratification of two key landmark weapons treaties and compromising US security.

27.   Putin and Bush, who signed a landmark nuclear disarmament treaty at their Kremlin summit Friday, remained at odds over the issue this weekend.

28.   Secretary of State-designate Madeleine Albright urged senators Wednesday to ratify within four months a landmark treaty banning chemical weapons.

29.   The deal is believed to have been won this month and it followed the signing of a landmark defence treaty between the UAE and Britain in November.