State Letter Reveals Plan for U.S. Legal Commitment to Unratified Nuclear Treaty

Washington Free Beacon ^ | September 7, 2016 | Bill Gertz

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Senator opposed to back-door ratification of test ban accord

The Obama administration will seek a formal political agreement at the United Nations that would legally bind the United States to a nuclear test ban treaty rejected by the Senate 17 years ago.

The plan was outlined in a letter from the State Department to Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Sen. Bob Corker (R., Tenn.), who is challenging the administration’s effort to lock in American adherence to the signed but unratified Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, or CTBT.

The treaty bans nuclear testing and was signed by then-President Bill Clinton in 1996. The Senate voted against ratifying the treaty in 1999. The Obama administration, as part of its anti-nuclear arms control agenda, has sought ways to codify the test ban treaty despite the constitutional requirement for Senate ratification.

Julia Frifield, assistant secretary of state for legislative affairs, stated in an Aug. 10 letter to Corker that the administration would not seek a legally binding U.N. Security Council resolution on testing.

But Frifield said the administration is working on a U.N. resolution that would affirm the current U.S. moratorium on nuclear tests, and which would mention a legal commitment not to test made in a joint statement by the five declared nuclear powers.

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Can this procedure be used to allow Obie to "codify" the unratified UN Guns Treaty

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Clinton signed it, and now Barry wants to sign it too. Wasn’t legal then, won’t be now.

[VTenigma]

Impeach then defund the U.N.

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Sorry Obama, without Senate ratification the UN can pass all the resolutions it wants but a treaty would still not be legally binding.

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The UN is warning about "waponized populism" so they're obviously in a hurry to ram anything they can past what little true representation the people have through Congress before they end up dealing with a President and eventually a Congress that really does represent the will of the people of the US.

JMHo

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Obama’s plans for an Iranian nuclear attack on the infidel West will nullify any purported test ban...

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The UN is warning about "waponized populism" so they're obviously in a hurry to ram anything they can past what little true representation the people have through Congress before they end up dealing with a President and eventually a Congress that really does represent the will of the people of the US.

Thomas Jefferson's quotation
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."