The government has decided to make the changes required in two stages, and this part covers only what the government is almost forced to do as a signatory to the 1976 international convention, which was to come into force in 1990, but whose implementation was later postponed to March 31, 1996, at the latest.
Does this next sentence follow, given the preceding text?
The government fell in 1996

Options: (A). Yes. (B). It's impossible to say. (C). No.
(B).