71.   The U.S. Congress ratified the accord in early December in a cliff-hanger vote.

72.   The United States has yet to ratify the accord.

73.   TV news reports indicated dubbers were waiting merely to ratify an accord before going back to work.

74.   Washington has ratified those accords.

75.   For his part, Han stressed that advanced economies should first ratify the accord, it said.

76.   However, the deal broke down amid mutual recrimination, Lukashenko accusing parliament or reneging on its undertakings by failing to ratify the accord.

77.   In ratifying the accord the Latvians gave the guarantees demanded by the Russians when their troops left at the end of August.

78.   Ismet Grbo, a spokesman for the SDA, said the Moslem party would refuse to ratify the accord in the Bosnian parliament.

79.   A number of major countries, including France and Japan, have not yet ratified the accord because they have been waiting for Washington to do so first.

80.   As expected, the Palestinian leadership quickly ratified the accord after a few hours of debate late Wednesday in Gaza City, officials said.