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Brad Sherman: A negative security assurance, with all due respect to the Executive Branch of Government, is pretty meaningless without…

On the recordJune 5, 2012
A negative security assurance, with all due respect to the Executive Branch of Government, is pretty meaningless without it being a treaty.
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Brad Sherman
Democratic · California

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Sherman critiques the effectiveness of negative security assurances without treaty status.

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