The debate over the participation of developing countries in the Kyoto Protocol, an international treaty to reduce global emissions of greenhouse gases, has stalled ratification of the treaty.
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The latest skirmishes, she said, proved that ratification of the treaty by India was urgent.
Court jurisdictions over US personnel should come only with US ratification of the treaty.
Under the Constitution, it only takes 34 votes to prevent the ratification of a treaty.
This would at best impose a delay to the ratification of the treaty.
So I hope that the Senate will move quickly and give its advice and consent to the ratification of this treaty.
MPs are currently debating the ratification of the treaty - but the Conservatives, who are the only party at Westminster demanding a referendum, would need to gain the support of Lib Dem and Labour MPs to get their way.
In the meantime there are some very positive signs: The decision of the German Constitutional Court to approve the ratification of the ESM treaty with only minor conditions was one of them.
Mr Reinfeldt said that the ratification of the Lisbon Treaty, as was persuading the G20 to try and end the "bonus culture" in world banking.
The European Parliament is a key player in setting the EU's budget, and its powers have been expanded following ratification of the Lisbon Treaty, especially in areas such as the budget for agriculture.
Yet those are the words chosen by Mr Lellouche this morning, after the British opposition leader David Cameron unveiled his new Europe policy, to take account of the final ratification of the Lisbon treaty.
At a joint press conference last Wednesday, he was one of several Senators to declare that, as a result, supporters would be unable to muster the necessary 67 votes for ratification of the Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST).
President Obama had also promised to build a modern Chemical and Metallurgy Research Replacement facility for handling plutonium which was included in the Treaty Resolution of Ratification and presented in his message to the Senate upon entry of the treaty into force.
It would, in short, be an embarrassment as well as an impediment to ratification of the New START Treaty.
Never before in the history of the U.S. Senate has the ratification of a strategic arms treaty been considered in a lame-duck session.
The study, entitled Mapping a National Security Failure: The Ratification of the New START Treaty , was authored by Center Vice President Ben Lerner.
The study, entitled Mapping a National Security Failure: The Ratification of the New START Treaty (PDF), was authored by Center Vice President Ben Lerner.
He was reacting to comments by Jon Kyl, a Republican senator who said he did not think ratification of the New Start treaty should be considered this year.
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Proponents of ratification ignore the treaty's severe problems.
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The White House had tried to link any summit to the Duma's ratification of the START II treaty, saying only then would the two leaders be able to go forward in negotiating further arms control treaties.
Others include the expiring program of extended benefits for the long-term unemployed, government funding, and ratification of a nuclear-arms treaty with Russia.
Mr. Obama also said, on behalf of the U.S., that "We will move forward with the ratification of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty" (CTBT).
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The Eurosceptic president held up the ratification of Europe's landmark Lisbon Treaty, while demanding an opt-out for the country.
In 1963, President Kennedy signed the documents of ratification for a nuclear test ban treaty with Britain and the Soviet Union.
Mr Hague has said he will impose a three-line whip requiring Tories to vote against ratification of the European Union's Amsterdam treaty, which Tony Blair signed last June.
Still others have not specified their targets, instead urging restraint in filing such suits until the U.S. becomes a party, lest our ratification be jeopardized by prematurely revealing the true costs of this treaty.
At the summit, the United States will sign accords on enhanced verification procedures sought by the Reagan Administration for the Threshold Test Ban Treaty and the Peaceful Nuclear Explosions Treaty of the 1970s as prerequisites to ratification by the U.S. Congress.
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Recognizing that the 1994 Agreement did little to change the substance of the treaty, the Senate had long-refused ratification.
Since Charles de Gaulle inaugurated the fifth republic in 1958, there have been eight referendums, ranging from the approval of the constitution, through independence for Algeria, to the ratification (by the thinnest of margins) in 1992 of the Maastricht treaty.
Treaty proponents, nevertheless, believe the prospective benefit of ratification outweigh its risks and problems.
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