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(1) Ministers or their representatives from the 26 following Member States signed the treaty: Albania, Armenia, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Moldova, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, "the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia", Ukraine and the United Kingdom. Canada, Japan, South Africa and the United States, who took part in the drafting, also signed the treaty. http://press.coe.int/cp/2001/875a(2001).htm

(2) Another possibility is that this Treaty might set a precedent for imposing formal international control over the Internet. This has been discussed at length at the recent U.N. conference on the Internet. See "U.N. Agrees to Examine How Internet Is Governed," by Jennifer L. Schenker, International Herald Tribune,
December 15, 2003.

(3)For the full text of this treaty, see http://conventions.coe.int/Treaty/en/Treaties/Html/185.htm.

(4) Article 24, Extradition, http://conventions.coe.int/Treaty/en/Treaties/Html/185.htm.

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