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• n  a written agreement between two states or sovereigns

• He charged that the talks had favored the Soviet Union and that the SALT II treaty, signed by Jimmy Carter but unratified by the Senate, was "fatally flawed.
• Though European leaders are about to sign a new treaty, the event has been dubbed a diplomatic vanity trip and an environmental extravagance.
• Despite disclaimers by Bonn, the Treaty of Moscow in effect represents nothing less than a peace treaty between West Germany and Russia.

• pact
• accord

News & Articles

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• Anglo-Irish Treaty document goes global courtesy of world-wide-web
  Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny is to launch a new online exhibition which features the 1921 Anglo-Irish Treaty as its centerpiece. The new site, hosted by the National Archives of Ireland, will be formally launched by Kenny and Minister for Arts and Heritage Jimmy Deenihan on Wednesday.
  June 29, 2013 - Irish Central
• Treaty Energy Corporation Reports 2012 Fiscal Year-End Results and Plans Going Forward
  Treaty Energy Corporation , a growth-oriented international energy company, today reported the fiscal results for the year ended December 31, 2012.
  June 28, 2013 - Marketwired via Yahoo! Finance
• Landmark Treaty for Visually-Impaired Persons
  Historic multilateral treaty will oblige all nations to establish copyright exceptions for people with print disabilities.
  June 28, 2013 - Institute of Museum and Library Services

Quotes

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• Hillary Rodham Clinton in The Moscow Times
  But that is not an agreed upon view, that is not in the treaty,Clinton told the Senate Armed Services Committee. "It's the equivalent of a press release, and we are not in any way bound by it."
• President Bush in CNN International
  I believe it's possible, not only possible, I believe that it is going to happen, that there will be a signed peace treaty by the time I leave office, that's what I believe,Bush said at a news conference in January in the West Bank city of...
• Robert Gates in Washington Post
  Under President Obama's new policy, however, if the state that has just attacked us with biological or chemical weapons is "in compliance with the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT)," explained Gates, then "the US pledges not to use or threaten...