1.   Business groups say it is vital for lawmakers to approve the measure so that the new trade treaty takes effect.

2.   But Communist and nationalist members of Parliament here assert that the treaty took advantage of Russia at a time of weakness.

3.   Once the pact is final, Clinton and his OECD counterparts must win legislative approval before the treaty can take effect.

4.   The full U.S. Congress will also have to make the necessary changes in U.S. law before the treaty can take effect in the United States.

5.   The treaty takes another step and outlaws chemical weapons themselves, not just their use.

6.   When the trade treaty took effect, Desc had much business in the United States and continued to be a big supplier to Mexican auto makers.

7.   Peter Scoblic, editor of Arms Control Today magazine, questioned that a treaty would take as long to complete as Bush has suggested.

8.   A signatory nation must dismantle mines it possesses within four years after the treaty takes effect.

9.   Any nation caught conducting a nuclear explosion after the treaty takes effect could be censured by the U.N. Security Council.

10.   But India says the treaty takes the world no closer to the goal of ridding it of nuclear weapons.