21.   Peru has lobbied for the U.S. Congress to ratify an accord that gives imports from Peru and three other Andean nations preferential tariff treatment in the United States.

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

23.   According to the Justice Department, the United States and Somalia are the only U.N. members who have not ratified the accord.

24.   After a cliff-hanger vote, U.S. Congress ratified the accord early December.

25.   Aides to Netanyahu said in Jerusalem that the Israeli Cabinet would not be convened to ratify the accord until Israel got a written guarantee from the United States.

26.   Aides to Netanyahu said in Jerusalem that the Israeli cabinet would not be convened to ratify the accord until Israel got such a written guarantee from the United States.

27.   And Japan refuses to commit to ratifying the accord as long as the United States is not on board.

28.   Austria has not yet ratified the accord.

29.   Britain has been leading the campaign to require itself and the seven other nuclear countries to ratify the accord before it takes effect.

30.   Both governments have long urged the parliament to ratify the accord so the two sides can begin negotiating further cuts, known as START III.