Agreement could pave the way for the Administration to seek early ratification of two 10-year-old partial test-ban treaties.

We will seek early ratification of a treaty to ban chemical weapons worldwide.

The system was a masterpiece of both hydraulic and structural engineering, and served as an early ratification of Riquet's vision.

He said Mr. Yeltsin would also continue to ask for early ratification of the Start 2 arms control treaty by the lower house of Parliament.

I am now fighting in my country for the earliest possible ratification of the Lisbon Treaty.

We look forward to early ratification by those Member States and, indeed, some interesting implementation.

I also expect that it will call for the early ratification of the Europol Convention by the Member States by the end of 1997 at the latest.

For all these reasons, I consider early ratification of the three agreements essential. The aim in drafting them was that they should be as similar as possible.

In the same time, five states rescinded their earlier ratifications, for a net total of zero ratifications.

But support for the treaty from the two main opposition parties should assure its early ratification.