Two months ago, Senators Leahy, Cardin, Franken, Kerry, and myself asked your respective Departments for recommendations on how to bring the United States back into compliance with the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations.
Feingold discusses efforts to ensure U.S. compliance with international treaty obligations.
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We raised this issue with the Rwandan Government that we had seen a credible body of reporting that that was happening.
I think we need to continue to support an extension which will be decided in March.
We made it very clear to them that we thought that was a violation of the framework and something that should not happen.
It is not just a political solution. It is a complex relationship between the peoples in that region.
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