Any State that becomes a Contracting Party will be bound by the Treaty 90 days following the deposit of its instrument of ratification (or equivalent) in the United Nations Headquarters.

成为缔约方的任何国家自其批准文书(或具有同等效应的文书)交存于联合国总部之日后第90天起将受条约的约束。

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The climactic conference approved a draft of the treaty that is expected to go to the member states for ratification next year.

译文： 这次标志着大功告成的会议通过了条约草案， 这一草案可望于明年递交各会员国批准。

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But prospects for ratification are uncertain for the new strategic arms reduction treaty, which cuts the number of long-range nuclear weapons each country can deploy by almost a third.

但是，这一新的战略武器削减条约获得批准的前景并不确定。该条约将美俄两国能够部署的远程核武器数量削减近三分之一。

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

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Under the Constitution, it only takes 34 votes to prevent the ratification of a treaty.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: START over

It is against this unlikely backdrop, that a group of prominent former and present officials released today a letter to Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist urging him to facilitate the "expeditious" ratification of a treaty that would help establish precedents useful to opponents of the Bush Administration at the UN and elsewhere: the Law of the Sea (LOST).

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: LOST approval urged by global goverment advocates

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.

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