Other pitfalls for the industry lie buried deep within the treaty text.

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The repeat referendum is about the same treaty text, but since last year EU leaders have given specific commitments on issues which made some Irish voters nervous last time.

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The U.S and 55 other countries left WCIT last week without signing the treaty after extensive negotiations led to a treaty text that included language on spam, security, and government control of the Internet.

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Before the vote, Australia's ambassador to the UN, Peter Woolcott, had said the final draft of the treaty was a compromise text to bring together the broadest range of stakeholders.

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It is not as if the Lisbon treaty is such a wonderful text.

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It will be followed by another get-together in March, before a conference convenes in Rome in June to agree on the final text of a treaty setting up the court.

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The roof bears the text of the 1835 treaty that facilitated their displacement.

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Moreover, Vice President George Bush in April 1984 personally tabled a U.S. text for a draft treaty prohibiting CW production and stockpiling that the U.S. government hastily put together following the Shultz announcement.

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Governments and the EU are busily drafting the text of a minor new treaty agreed at December's summit, where Mr Cameron famously cast his veto.

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Denmark has said it is not clear now whether the treaty on the table is the definitive text, and that it is therefore unfair to ask people to vote on it.

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In Brussels, it is fashionable to roll your eyes at these guarantees, which do not change anything about the treaty and address things that were never in the text in the first place.

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The actual text of the new U.S.-Japan treaty won't be released until it's signed.

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The new text appears to keep that loophole, stating that implementation of the treaty "shall not prejudice obligations" under defense cooperation agreements by countries that ratify the treaty.

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Using your wish list of issues for a better text, it is clear how close we are to a good final treaty.

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