Kay Bailey Hutchison: “I would like to try to answer that because what we are trying to do is not have it come up to NAC but to have border…”

“I would like to try to answer that because what we are trying to do is not have it come up to NAC but to have border disputes and a process that everyone has agreed to, and if anyone doesn't agree, including us, it wouldn't go into effect. The Senator from Delaware quoted from my statement, but he forgot to say that I laid out the labor arbitration as just an example of what it could look like. I was only trying to provide one option, one thought. The purpose is not to have border dispute resolutions come to NAC. It is to have an agreed-upon procedure at the lowest level so that every country would know what the ground rules are so that they could handle it at the lowest level and there wouldn't be an eruption at the highest level. I say to the Senator from Delaware, who I admire very much, that all the United States Ambassador has to do is say, ``I don't think this is a good idea,'' when he does start talking to the allies. It will go nowhere. Why would anyone be afraid to talk about this in anticipation of problems that could occur? There are 11 potential border disputes that have been identified by the Congressional Research Office as having a medium to high probability of escalation. It is, I think, an opportunity to keep a Bosnia from rising to the level it has.”