Floyd Spence: “Mr. Chairman, we are going to have more time to talk about this, but basically I would note that it is the serious…”

“Mr. Chairman, we are going to have more time to talk about this, but basically I would note that it is the serious opinion of many, many scholars, including at least some lawyers in the Department of State, that the so-called arms embargo on Bosnia is illegal on its face. How can the West tell a sovereign country, a sovereign people, a sovereign nation that they cannot defend themselves? If they do do that, they have to provide--and this is in the U.N. documents--adequate defense and protection. No one can say we have provided adequate defense and protection. A better analogy would be that the United Nations, the world community right now is in the process of enforcing an arms embargo against the Kurdish people being victimized by Iraqi forces and aggression, moving into the Kurdish areas of Iraq and that region. The Government and people of Bosnia have committed no infraction of the U.N. Charter. If anyone is an innocent victim in all of this, it is the Bosnians, who, I might note, involve all ethnic factions and peoples--Jews, Croatians, Moslems, and Serbs. There are hundreds of thousands of Serbs, Mr. Chairman, who want no part of Karadjic and Milosevic.”