They ratify the pact because they think it will bring peace.

他们批准了这项协定，因为他们认为它将能带来和平。

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Whether the Senate needs to ratify the pact will depend on what's in it, wrote Sen.

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Koizumi has not said if Japan would ratify the pact if Washington stays out.

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Its arcane rules require 55 countries (who must represent at least 55% of the industrial world's greenhouse-gas emissions in 1990) to ratify the pact before it comes into force.

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