Foreign Policy.
The U.S. Senate should ratify the Law of the Sea Treaty
before the end of the year because it is in Amerca's economic and national
security interests, Secretary of State Hillary
Clinton will testify today.
The treaty is "critical to the leadership and security of
the United States" and joining it is "a priority for the Department of State
and for me personally," Clinton will tell the Senate Foreign Relations Committee this morning, according to prepared remarks obtained in advance by The Cable. Clinton will testify
alongside Defense Secretary Leon Panetta
and Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Martin
Dempsey in what will be the first in a series of hearings convened by SFRC
Chairman John Kerry (D-MA).
"U.S. interests are deeply tied to the oceans," Clinton will
say. "No country is in a position to gain more from the Law of the Sea
Convention than the United States."
