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Politics : Bill Clinton Scandal - SANITY CHECK -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Neocon who wrote (62018)	11/2/1999 8:57:00 AM
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US bound by "International Law" not Constitution. Albright says U.S. bound by CTBT By Bill Gertz THE WASHINGTON TIMES Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright has written foreign governments to say the United States is legally bound to observe the nuclear test-ban treaty, despite the Senate's rejection of the pact. In a letter to selected foreign officials, Mrs. Albright said the Clinton administration does not regard the Senate's refusal to approve the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty as the death of the pact, despite the convincing vote against ratification. . . The administration believes it is still bound to legally abide by the test-ban treaty because it has not given up on ratification in the future, Mr. Rubin said in an interview. Asked about Mrs. Albright's reference in the letter to "international law," Mr. Rubin said, "other countries actually care about international law, even if some in the United States don't." . . . Several Republican Senate aides said they were upset by Mrs. Albright's refusal to accept that the test-ban treaty was defeated. "The president is not Louis XIV," said one aide. "He cannot declare that he is the state. The Senate has made clear by its vote that the United States intends not to be a party to the [test-ban] treaty." Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Jesse Helms, North Carolina Republican, is expected to discuss the Albright letter during a hearing today. Mr. Helms was one of the Senate's most outspoken opponents of the test-ban accord. Mrs. Albright stated that the treaty was not defeated. "Despite the delay in U.S. ratification, let me reaffirm America's commitment to reducing the dangers posed by nuclear weapons," she said. John Bolton, a constitutional specialist with the American Enterprise Institute, said the secretary's letter appeared to be a diplomatic effort to resurrect the treaty. Mr. Clinton and Mrs. Albright might have argued that the treaty could be continued under the president's executive powers under the Constitution, Mr. Bolton said. "What is striking is that they are not asserting that but the airy fairy notion of international law," Mr. Bolton said. "If I were in the Senate, I would be treating this as an affront." . . . washtimes.com