And, that's not even mentioning that fact that the MPAA has already gotten their content excluded from the Treaty years ago.
U/S Tauscher told UK officials on September 30 that her goal is to have the Senate act on the treaty by year's end.
But the blockbuster agreements of the last decade -- the Oslo accords between Israel and the Palestinians in 1993 and the Israel-Jordan peace treaty a year later -- were worked out by the parties themselves.
Hurrying to negotiate a successor to the second Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty by year's end, which Secretary Clinton has committed to, reflects a "zeal for the deal" approach that benefits only Russia.
Mr. Gore has called the Senate's rejection of the treaty last year an act of "massive irresponsibility," and has said he will immediately revive the ratification process if he becomes president.
Mr. Lodal said he believed that there was no compelling reason for the Pentagon to violate the treaty next year, especially since financing for the missile defense program is still in considerable doubt.
For a summit meeting, the parties are contemplating a Camp David-style meeting modeled on the Israeli-Egyptian talks in 1978, which produced the first Israeli-Arab peace treaty a year later.
This culminated in the Two Plus Four Treaty a year later on 12 September 1990, under which the four occupying powers renounced their rights under the Instrument of Surrender, and Germany regained full sovereignty.
Even if the treaty takes years to go into effect, the momentum toward controlling heat-trapping gases is clear, representatives of many of the participating companies said.
Yet, despite America's central role in global emissions, the US Senate has done nothing about climate change since ratifying the UN climate change treaty 16 years ago.
In the past, Europeans have strongly criticized the I.C.A.O. for dragging its heels on establishing standards and targets for greenhouse gases from aviation, a responsibility it was given under the Kyoto climate treaty 15 years ago.
