1.   The pact is widely seen as one of the environmental fruits of glasnost in the Soviet Union.

2.   Others see the pact as ground breaking.

3.   The Kyoto pact was seen in many countries as a courageous if imperfect attempt to come to grips with an impossibly complex and uncertain threat.

4.   Too many see the pact as a means to make the rich in each nation richer and the poor poorer.

5.   Iraqi officials saw the pact as an opening to their larger goal of ending all U.N. sanctions.

6.   Syria, and its ally Iran, see that pact, which includes intelligence-sharing and joint exercises, as a U.S.-sanctioned move to encircle them.

7.   The pact is seen as a breakthrough in attempts to avoid the threatened disruption of imports into China of genetically modified soybeans and other U.S. agricultural products.

8.   The pact is seen as a positive step for the peso crisis.

9.   The pact is seen by many as positive for business.