21.   Turkish Prime Minister Necmettin Erbakan signed four cooperation treaties with his Egyptian counterpart before ending his visit to Cairo on Friday.

22.   Ukraine and Romania plan to sign a military cooperation treaty next year and may set up a joint engineering battalion to deal with natural calamities, officials said Wednesday.

23.   Zedillo and Brazilian President Fernando Henrique Cardoso signed three mutual cooperation treaties on technology, diplomacy and statistical analyses.

24.   Yastrzhembsky said a cooperation treaty and several economic agreements would be signed during the visit.

25.   Zedillo arrived Tuesday in Brasilia, the capital, where he and Cardoso signed three mutual cooperation treaties in the fields of technology, diplomacy and statistical analyses.

26.   He was referring to Russia, with which Ukraine is involved in delicate negotiations over a cooperation treaty.

27.   Hungary is likely to sign cooperation treaties with Slovakia and Romania soon, US Assistant Secretary of State Richard Holbrooke said here Friday.

28.   Indian President Shankar Dayal Sharma signed several cooperation treaties with Romania Thursday, on the last day of his official trip to Bucharest, local radio reported.

29.   A controversial friendship and cooperation treaty between Bangladesh and India lapsed Tuesday and neither country decided to renew it, officials said.

30.   According to a well-informed source, the cooperation treaty would aim primarily at boosting investments and reducing loans.