91.   The South Korean parliament has already ratified the convention while the Japanese parliament aims to do so in the current session, possibly in March.

92.   Turkey meanwhile said its position remained unchanged after the Greek parliament ratified the Convention late Wednesday.

93.   Turkish Prime Minister Tansu Ciller earlier called on the parliament to ratify the accord, saying the rhetoric in Europe regarding Turkey had become exaggerated and overheated.

94.   Venizelos added the Greek parliament would ratify the sea convention in acccordance with the policy of its European Union allies.

95.   Yeltsin pledged to get parliament to ratify the START II treaty on reducing nuclear arsenals by April after the US Senate approved it Friday.

96.   Japan became the most recent country to complete the process when its parliament ratified the texts on Thursday.

97.   Last month the emergency was ratified by parliament and extended for a further three months.

98.   Last week the Egyptian parliament ratified a security accord between Cairo and Islamabad.

99.   Mladic was fired three weeks ago by Bosnian Serb president Biljana Plavsic, and the Serb parliament ratified the move on Wednesday.

100.   Parliament must ratify any recognition of its neighbour.