1.   Enough countries ratified the Convention to bring it into force.

2.   The Independent reported that torture had become endemic in Syria and Sri Lanka, and that neither country had ratified the Convention.

3.   A Saudi Arabian spokesman said that signing the convention is meaningless, but that his country may ratify it eventually.

4.   After that, countries must simply ratify the treaty.

5.   But countries can ratify with legal reservations, and the treaty language has many loopholes.

6.   But the negotiations have bogged down over which countries must ratify the treaty before it formally takes effect.

7.   Countries should ratify the treaty quickly and treat it as a minimum, adding their own measures to improve it.

8.   Eight countries have ratified the treaty.

9.   Even if that happens, each NATO country must ratify the costly expansion, a tough political process that is expected to take up to two years.

10.   Seventy other countries have ratified the treaty, Clinton said.