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John Kerry: I want the four humvees back, and whatever the small arms are, which raises another issue, but I am not willing to see…

On the recordDecember 21, 2010
I want the four humvees back, and whatever the small arms are, which raises another issue, but I am not willing to see this entire treaty get caught up in that particular fracas. We have an unbelievable number of diplomatic channels and other ways of prosecuting that concept, and I pledge to the Senator that I am prepared, in the Foreign Relations Committee, to make certain we attempt to do that, as well as deal with the question of Russia's compliance with the peace agreement with respect to the cease-fire in Georgia and so forth. These are essential ingredients, and we will talk about that in a moment. It also says they have to return all military equipment. It doesn't specify. This could become one of those things where we are saying, you have this, and they say, no, we don't. Are we talking about small arms? What about expended ammunition? Who knows what the circumstances are?
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John Kerry
Democratic · Massachusetts
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Dec 21, 2010

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The speaker addresses concerns about linking military equipment return to a treaty affecting national security.

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