0 present participle of ratify --
1 (especially of governments or organizations) to make an agreement official: --
Let us try to come back to the reason for this long delay in ratifying this protocol.
We welcome the news of any country ratifying the core human rights instruments.
Yet there is absolutely no movement on ratifying the protocols.
Nevertheless, signing and ratifying conventions is merely providing a framework for improvement.
All our great industrial competitors have ratified or are ratifying.
But to put something into practice also means ratifying it, and in international law this is regrettably not always possible.
It will be for individual governments to reach a view on the desirability of ratifying the treaty or acceding to the protocols.
It is desperately sad that we are ratifying another treaty to hand over more power.
