21.   Despite a new international treaty asserting that copyright does exist in the digital realm, experts still disagree about its application.

22.   Envoys appointed by Clinton and Prime Minister Jean Chretien have been trying to bring the parties together for a new treaty.

23.   Failure to agree on a new treaty need not amount to complete failure.

24.   Finally, the new treaty is remarkable for its stress on human contacts.

25.   Gephardt wants to condition fast-track authority on the obligation to include minimum labor and environmental standards in any new treaty.

26.   He emphasized, however, that he did not believe that there was any need for a new treaty.

27.   He expressed concern that cooperation might become more difficult after crucial elections this week choose the legislature that would have to approve any new antidrug treaties or laws.

28.   He said a new European Union treaty aimed at bringing about deeper integration of member states would not resolve all of their problems, and particularly not joblessness.

29.   Hong Kong has to negotiate new treaties because the ones concluded by the British lapse when China regains control after more than a century of British rule.

30.   In Moscow, Putin also welcomed the new treaty.