21.   Also Thursday, Secretary-General Kofi Annan urged Pakistan and India to sign weapons treaties and promise not to use nuclear arms against each other.

22.   Also Thursday, the U.S. senate is expected to vote on ratifying the chemical weapons treaty.

23.   Australia will invite foreign ministers and other top officials for negotiations to strengthen the chemical weapons treaty by the end of this year, Downer said.

24.   British Ambassador David Broucher also praised the test-ban treaty and regretted the failure to strengthen the biological weapons treaty.

25.   Buoyed by prospects for a new U.S.-Russia weapons treaty, the ministers uniformly described an atmosphere of goodwill and consensus on the first day of meetings.

26.   Buoyed by prospects for a new U.S.-Russia weapons treaty, the ministers uniformly described an atmosphere of good-will and consensus.

27.   Each side ascribes good will to the other even as disagreements remain, including U.S. doubts about Russian compliance with biological and chemical weapons treaties.

28.   Each side ascribes good will to the other even though disagreements remain, including U.S. doubts about Russian compliance with biological and chemical weapons treaties.

29.   Efforts intensify to get more countries to ratify chemical weapons treaty.

30.   He opposed a chemical weapons treaty ratified by the Senate.