1.   The friendship treaty was initialed two years ago, but Yeltsin has postponed his visit to Ukraine for its signing six times, citing the fleet dispute.

2.   The foreign ministers of Belarus and Ukraine initialed a treaty Tuesday that will define the border between the two former Soviet republics.

3.   The treaty was initialed last month by the foreign ministers of the two countries in the Belarusian capital Minsk.

4.   Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and his Jordanian counterpart Abdel Salam Majali initialled the treaty on Monday.

5.   Israel and Jordan have clinched a breakthrough agreement on water-sharing and borders, and state radio reported that a peace treaty would be initialled on Monday.

6.   Collins said when he initialled the treaty with Britain setting up the Irish Free State, now the Republic of Ireland, that he was signing his death warrant.

7.   With little advance warning, the two sides cleared the last obstacles to peace in marathon talks Sunday and initialled the treaty on Monday.

8.   King Hussein and Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin were to initial a treaty later in the day with a full signing cremony scheduled for next month.

9.   The Bosnian peace treaty was initialed by the presidents of Bosnia-Hercegovina, Croatia and Serbia in Dayton, Ohio last month.

10.   The fuller union treaty was initialled by Yeltsin and Lukashenko.