The British foreign minister proposed a treaty that would make the forty-ninth parallel of latitude the border between the United States and British Oregon.
VOA: special.2009.02.19
When the Senate consents to a treaty with a given foreign State, does it impliedly authorize future Presidents to make a treaty on the same subject with a new State that is a successor to that given foreign State?
After exhaustive study, the Bush administration concluded that, while the BWC annex is intended to make that treaty prohibiting the production, possession, and use of biological and toxin weapons more verifiable and enforceable, it won't do either.
What is certain, however, is that -- having telegraphed its willingness in principle to do so -- the United States will be hard pressed to resist demands that will make the treaty even more unacceptable to the Senate than it is at present.