11.   The platform is not a binding treaty.

12.   Under the two binding treaties signed at Rio, substantive progress has been scant.

13.   U.S. officials say the accord amounts to a political assurance at the highest level and not a legally binding treaty.

14.   At the Convention on Biological Diversity, the issue of biosafety received special mention and a legally binding treaty was formed.

15.   But he rejected any suggestion that these discussions would ultimately lead to a legally binding treaty.

16.   But some timber-trading countries now propose a binding treaty to control logging globally.

17.   But thus far their declarations and U.N. resolutions have not satisfied the Third Worlders, who want instead a binding treaty tying the hands of the nuclear powers.

18.   Canada, the European Union and others want the conference to establish a committee to begin negotiations on a legally binding treaty on forest management.

19.   France and Germany circulated a proposed resolution asking the General Assembly to create a special committee to draft a legally binding international treaty banning human cloning.

20.   In an article Thursday in The European newspaper, based in London, Russian Ambassador Anatoly Adamishin said his country is seeking a legally binding treaty with NATO.