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John Kerry: You don't need a legal pretext. You don't need anything except a judgment on your part there is an extraordinary…

On the recordDecember 17, 2010
You don't need a legal pretext. You don't need anything except a judgment on your part there is an extraordinary circumstance that says you want to get out, and the extraordinary circumstance can be that you see your offensive weapons have been dramatically reduced in their impact by our defense. So they do not need a legal pretext. It has nothing to do with what the Senator has just suggested. The final comment I would make is, perhaps the Senator and I--and I invite this one more time because I think we have moved enormously with the language we have in our resolution of ratification from Senator DeMint. We worked on it together. I embraced it. I think it is an important statement. Perhaps the Senator and I can find some further way to include that in here so we are not taking the risk of what they might or might not do.
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John Kerry
Democratic · Massachusetts
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Dec 17, 2010

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Senator Kerry discusses the conditions under which a country might withdraw from a treaty.

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