The United States Senate has passed a resolution recognizing the illegal nature of the arms embargo, in not allowing that sovereign nation to defend itself, to obtain the weapons to defend itself against that enormously well-armed, well-supplied insurgency. By a vote of 87 to 9 it is in the budget which we are working under this year that the United States should unilaterally, because of the illegal nature of that embargo, lift that embargo.
Discussing the Senate's resolution on the arms embargo and its implications.
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