On that line, if the compacts represent a compendium, or they provide some type of framework where countries can agree that these are the challenges, the common definitions and the best practices.... If the United States isn't part of the compact, is there any concern, when negotiating these issues with them, that they are going to take a vastly different view on what the challenges are and how they are meant to be dealt with? Or, is it the experience of the department that it really is consistent with the United States that the U.S. not being part of it doesn't have to do with their common understanding of the problem?
On November 26th, 2018. See this statement in context.