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John Sarbanes: “Are these obligations to our friends, to which the Senator has referred, those instances in which our allies undertook…”

On the recordJune 16, 1997
Are these obligations to our friends, to which the Senator has referred, those instances in which our allies undertook actions under the umbrella authority of the United Nations, often with the use of their own troops, to carry out activities which the United States supported, which the United States made the judgment served our own national security interests? Would that be correct?
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John Sarbanes
Democratic · Maryland

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Questioning obligations to allies regarding actions taken under UN authority.

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