If all 27 nations ratify the treaty this year, it will begin to come into effect on Jan. 1, 2009.

如果今年全部27个成员国都通过，自2009年1月1日起该条约将正式生效。

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A ban on the use of Blackberry phones to send and receive messages is due to come into effect in Saudi Arabia.

沙特阿拉伯一项禁用黑莓手机发送、接受短信的禁令即将生效。

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The border guards were told to send them home and tell them to come back the next day, when the new regulations were supposed to come into effect.

边防兵被命令送他们回家、让他们等第二天新规定生效以后再来。

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Indeed, much of what was agreed at the summit is unlikely to come into effect.

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But its greatest disadvantage is that it will take years to come into effect.

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For the constitution to come into effect, every one of the 25 countries has to ratify it.

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