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It's Time For Progressives to Support the Law of the Sea09/26/07It's Time For Progressives to Support the Law of the Sea
Posted by Don Kraus
U.N. basher John Bolton has supposedly been talking to the very conserative Senate Republican Steering Group, a shadowy entity that does not appear in the congressional directory and is headed by Senator Jim DeMint. Bolton was there to hammer on the Law of the Sea convention, which is slowly working its way towards ratification. Today the ultra right wing group America’s Survival ran an anti-treaty ad on a major cable channel.
If the Senate will not accede to this convention, how can we expect them to support the ratification of the backlog of multilateral treaties waiting for a vote including:, the International Criminal Court treaty, the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, the Women’s Convention (CEDAW), the Rights of the Child, the Biodiversity Treaty, and many others. What will happen when it is time for the Senate to consider the successor to the Kyoto protocol, which runs out in 2012? Think about it. If a Senate with a Democratic majority can not muster the 66 votes to pass a treaty supported by a Republican president, what is the possibility of doing so under a potential Democratic president who will face much stiffer Republican opposition?
09/26/07 04:41:21 pm •
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Categories: Energy, International Law & Justice, Diplomacy, International Institutions, General, International Criminal Court, United Nations, Nuclear, Treaties, Foreign Policy
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