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John Kerry: I said if it is in the four corners of the treaty and has fundamental operative impact on us, I would say, OK, we have…

On the recordDecember 17, 2010
I said if it is in the four corners of the treaty and has fundamental operative impact on us, I would say, OK, we have to go back and do it. That is not the case here. We are talking about an innocuous, nonbinding, and a recognition of an existing reality that the administrations on both sides have already acknowledged. And Dr. Kissinger and others have said ignore the language, it is meaningless. It is simply a statement of the truth.
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John Kerry
Democratic · Massachusetts
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Dec 17, 2010

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Kerry discusses the implications of a treaty and its nonbinding nature.

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