31.   The administration hopes the Senate is now ready to approve the pact.

32.   The Cabinet approved the pact last month.

33.   The pact was approved by the Lutherans last year.

34.   The pact must be approved by conventions of both parties scheduled Saturday.

35.   The pact must be approved by the Monetary Authority of Singapore and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.

36.   The nuclear powers must approve the pact for it to take effect.

37.   The summit is expected to approve the pact in principle and leave the remaining details to be worked out later.

38.   The United States and other Western economic powers are pushing to have the trade pact approved as a binding package with specific time targets for cutting tariffs.

39.   Though it approved the pact, the European Parliament passed a separate resolution which called for Turkey to make human rights reforms and resolve the Kurdish issue without violence.

40.   Workers will return to work Monday if the pact is approved, he said.