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Howard Berman: Desert Storm was a chapter 7 U.N. operation for peacemaking. It was covered by this. You can say it all you want that it…

On the recordMay 24, 1994
Desert Storm was a chapter 7 U.N. operation for peacemaking. It was covered by this. You can say it all you want that it is not covered, Desert Storm was not covered. I understand why you have to say it was not covered, because if Desert Storm is covered, it shows what this resolution does. It prohibits any U.N. dollars for any international peacekeeping operation for the next 25 years. You have to support that, so you have to say it is excluded. Well, it is not.
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Howard Berman
California

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Discussing the implications of a resolution on U.N. peacekeeping funding.

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