1.   It is our aim to do the same on the draft treaty on political union.

2.   Luxembourg, the conference chair, has ignored these ideas in its draft treaty.

3.   The committee produced a draft treaty on arms limitation.

4.   The draft treaty is also vague on the question of a new minimum age for voluntary recruits.

5.   Will the Government veto a draft treaty Hon.

6.   On the subject of the draft union treaty, Gorbachev introduced the idea of holding a referendum on it throughout the country.

7.   Deputies rejected one specific provision in the draft union treaty, however, which would have entailed formally renaming the country the Union of Sovereign Soviet Republics.

8.   Discussions on economic and monetary union were further advanced and the Commission had already drawn up a draft treaty.

9.   The Supreme Soviet recommended changes to the draft treaty which would allow direct elections to the Soviet of the Republics and federal taxes to be levied by the centre.