Lee Hamilton: “Madam Chairman, I say to my colleagues who voted for the McCloskey amendment, and who favor lifting the embargo, that my…”

“Madam Chairman, I say to my colleagues who voted for the McCloskey amendment, and who favor lifting the embargo, that my amendment provides a better way to do it. We can accomplish the goal without the negative impacts of the McCloskey amendment. Mr. Chairman, if we are serious about helping the Bosnian cause, if we are serious about lifting the arms embargo and helping the Bosnian Moslems defend themselves, we should do it multilaterally in the context of the United Nations, and with, not against, our NATO allies. My amendment leaves open the option, Madam Chairman, of lifting the arms embargo, but it also recognizes the critical need to work multilaterally with our allies and with the Russians in order to achieve a negotiated settlement to the conflict. My amendment is very clear that the focus of U.S. policy should be to move the parties toward a negotiated settlement, and not toward war.”