A worthy global treaty has been awaiting Senate ratification for 22 years.
In 1681 Louis XIV of France seized the city in peacetime and obtained ratification for his arbitrary action by the Treaty of Rijswijk (1697).
"What is at stake in ratification for the Chinese government is not so much the international legal obligations that would come, but rather the domestic pressures to live up to its own promises," he said.
In February 1893, after an American-led coup toppled Queen Liliuokalani in the Hawaiian Islands, Harrison placed a treaty of annexation before the Senate, but Democrats blocked ratification for the remainder of Harrison's term.
In 2008 India's prime minister, Manmohan Singh, took the biggest political risk of an otherwise timid tenure to win ratification for the resulting deal on civil nuclear co-operation.
In addition, Mr. Obama vowed Saturday to seek Congressional ratification for a long-stalled free-trade agreement with South Korea -- a possibly risky political move that could please businesses but upset unions and their allies in Congress.
This move indisputably derailed the treaty's ratification for at least a few weeks, if not months, but the Czech president knows that the court's decision will presumably affirm the treaty's legality.
That would allow only a period of months for all the 15 current member countries to ratify the accession, a feat some say is impossible -- although the 1986 ratification for Spain and Portugal, for example, took only six months.
Signing the instrument of ratification for the treaty, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, President George H. W. Bush noted the special responsibilities that the developed nations were taking on; they "must go further" than the others, he said, and offer detailed "programs and measures they will undertake to limit greenhouse emissions".
In another development Wednesday, Senator Arlen Specter, the Pennsylvania Republican who leads the Judiciary Committee, said he had begun drafting legislation that would require the administration to go before the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to seek its ratification for the program.
IEEE 802.11ac is also in the process of collecting specific proposals and its ratification for MU-MIMO inclusion.
