1.   Jacob Selebi, president of the Oslo treaty conference, urged that delegates vote on the treaty without including any exceptions proposed by the United States.

2.   Still uncertain as the treaty conference nears are the rules under which the voting will take place.

3.   U.S. diplomats and legal experts agree that chances that an international criminal court will emerge from a treaty conference scheduled for next June in Rome have improved.

4.   A U.N. treaty conference approved a limited ban on laser weapons Friday, but broke up with almost no progress on its main goal of restricting land mines.

5.   An Israeli diplomat, with observer status at the treaty conference, sat through the Moussa speech.

6.   But he is not ready to set targets before a critical treaty conference in Kyoto, Japan, in December.

7.   Developing countries made a strong showing at the treaty conference that began Thursday.

8.   Developing countries made a strong showing at a treaty conference which began Thursday.

9.   During the treaty negotiation conference in Oslo this fall, the ICBL kept pressure on delegates not to back down from calling for an absolute ban on mines.

10.   Protecting the fragile environment of Antarctica is a key concern for an international treaty conference that opens in the north Norway city of Tromsoe on Saturday.