Senate action could be in the form of a nonbinding statement of its attitude or as an attempt to write current policy into law, a step the House might resist.

Agreement Is Doubted But some delegates said that even a nonbinding statement of forest principles, the minimum that had been expected to come out of Rio on the subject, might not be produced.

Mr. Schwarz now proposes that the city simply be required to prepare a nonbinding "statement of needs" for land every year that would not specify where projects should be built.

The rebuke was issued in the form of a nonbinding statement read by the Council's President, Bagbeni Adeito Nzengeya of Zaire.

In a nonbinding statement on March 29, the United Nations Security Council called for Iran to freeze all of its uranium enrichment-related activities within 30 days, as demanded by the nuclear agency's board.

It was accompanied by a nonbinding statement by the Council's current president, Yemen, backing a Middle East peace conference.

Although this requirement is set out only in a nonbinding statement by the Council's President and not in the binding resolution calling for the report, it is still supported by a majority of Council members.

At the Security Council, China, supported by Russia, on Monday submitted its own draft of a nonbinding statement to replace a far stronger Japanese resolution, which calls for sanctions.

The resolution was accompanied by a nonbinding statement by the Security Council president calling for an international conference to address the Palestinian question at the proper time.

Like the nonbinding statement the Council passed in late March, the resolution asks that the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency report on Iranian compliance with the demands.