1.   An environmental protocol that was to be added to the Antarctic Treaty will go into effect only after all treaty nations ratify it.

2.   Even so, enough other nations have ratified that the convention will provisionally come into force this November.

3.   Forty-six nations have already ratified the treaty and the court could be operational as early as next year.

4.   Key nations may never ratify the pact.

5.   A deal would allow enough nations to ratify the accord to bring it into effect.

6.   Both our nations should ratify this agreement and implement it.

7.   But he said the treaty be fully effective only if all nations ratify it.

8.   However, no EU nation has yet ratified the protocol.

9.   Individual nations must then ratify it.

10.   Many nations have already ratified an optional protocol to the Convention of the Rights of the Child on Children in Armed Conflict barring child soldiers.