Excerpt from Military Implications of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea: Hearing Before the Committee on Armed Services, United States Senate, One Hundred Eighth Congress, Second Session; April 8, 2004 Senator inhofe. Okay. Ambassador Taft, Senator Warner talked about the opting out of the treaty. Your answer I believe was we could at any point opt out of the treaty? Or is that not correct? Ambassador taft. We were discussing, I think, opting out of the arbitration - sorry, the dispute settlement provisions. We have, in the Senate resolution, said that we will opt out of those. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.