"If it is a yes it will remove one of the last remaining obstacles on the road to ratification of the treaty,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.02

They noted that the African Union has in the past approved an important convention, only to see it lie dormant for lack of ratification.

VOA: standard.2009.10.23

Some observers are concerned that complicated technical details, the sheer volume of work and possible legislative hurdles could delay ratification of a new START agreement.

VOA: standard.2009.04.02

The report gave no entry date for Croatia, but reports say the former Yugoslav state could become the EU's 28th member in 2012 after ratification of its accession treaty.

VOA: standard.2009.10.15

South Korean parliamentary opponents of a major free-trade deal with the United States got physical in a committee hearing room, but failed to prevent the deal from advancing toward ratification.

VOA: standard.2009.04.22

Members of a far-left minority party surrounded trade committee Chairman Park Jin's podium and tried to physically block a vote to advance the trade deal to a full ratification vote.

VOA: standard.2009.04.22

"Perhaps most important,though, we can now field initial elements of the system to protect our forces in Europe and our allies roughly six to seven years earlier than the previous plan a fact made more relevant by continued delaysin the Czech and Polish ratification processes that have caused repeated slips in the timeline,".

VOA: standard.2009.09.17

"What we hear is that the kind of legally binding agreement that we,for instance, did inside the European Union, will probably not be possible since some of the countries like the United States say we do not have the support in our congress to make a ratification on an international agreement,".

VOA: standard.2009.11.06