11.   Foreign Minister George Odlum expressed reservations Saturday about a decision by Caribbean leaders to suspend an anti-drug trafficking cooperation treaty with the United States.

12.   Lanoing is on a week-long visit to Israel and on Monday signed a taxation cooperation treaty with Israeli Foreign Minister David Levy.

13.   Li is on a week-long visit to Israel and on Monday signed a taxation cooperation treaty with Israeli Foreign Minister David Levy.

14.   Maskhadov, meanwhile, arrived Wednesday in Tatarstan, a mixed Slav-Muslim region in central Russia, to sign an economic cooperation treaty.

15.   Maskhadov, meanwhile, arrived Wednesday in Tatarstan, a mixed Slav-Muslim region in central Russia, to sign an economic cooperation treaty, Interfax said.

16.   No bilateral cooperation treaties were expected to be signed during the visit.

17.   President Boris Trajkovski spoke during a brief stopover in Bucharest, where he signed a bilateral cooperation treaty and attended a regional summit conference.

18.   Several countries have already signed cooperation treaties.

19.   The alliance has tried to calm Russian fears of NATO expansion by promising Moscow special consultative links with the alliance and possibly a cooperation treaty.

20.   The two sides also initialed a large-scale friendship and cooperation treaty and signed a series of other agreements dealing with economic issues and cooperation.