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Charles Skelton: “There shall be no deployment of American personnel peacekeeping forces unless there is an agreement reached between the…”

On the recordMarch 11, 1999
There shall be no deployment of American personnel peacekeeping forces unless there is an agreement reached between the parties in question in Kosovo, and, number two, that such deployment must be approved by Congress.
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Charles Skelton
Democratic · New Jersey

Editor's note · Context

Discussing conditions for the deployment of American peacekeeping forces in Kosovo.

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