21.   But unlike Bush, who said earlier that he did not favor formal treaties, Putin said he preferred relying on them to codify weapons reductions.

22.   Clark used the stage to call on the government to negotiate a formal treaty with Aborigines setting up legal processes for dealing with issues like land rights and compensation.

23.   ECONOMY Sweden seeks a formal treaty clause on curbing unemployment.

24.   Gorbachev also praised Putin for pushing the U.S. administration into codifying the nuclear cuts in a formal treaty.

25.   He has also pushed for the cuts to be written into a formal treaty, something Bush opposes.

26.   He has also pushed for the cuts to be written into formal treaty, something Bush opposes.

27.   He again pushed for these cuts to be written into a formal treaty, something Bush has opposed.

28.   He pushed for these cuts to be written into a formal treaty, something Bush has opposed.

29.   Later, Rice said the Bush administration was not interested in the kind of formal treaty that Putin wanted to lock in the promised reductions in nuclear weapons.

30.   No formal treaty -- or binding commitments -- are expected to result from the meetings.