Reuters: Pentagon supports resumed military aid to Latam (relents on ICC)

Pentagon supports resumed military aid to Latam

Oct 1, 2006 — By Kristin Roberts

MANAGUA, Nicaragua (Reuters) - Some U.S. military aid withheld from Latin
American nations that did not agree to exempt American military personnel
from the International Criminal Court will start flowing again when
President George W. Bush signs waivers, a senior defense official said
on Sunday.

Those waivers now on Bush's desk are seen as critical to Pentagon officials,
including Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, who arrived in Nicaragua on
Sunday to meet with regional defense ministers.

"There's going to be probably no nation on earth that's going to agree
with us all the time," Rumsfeld said.

"That being the case, it … would be in the future unfortunate if our
immediate reaction to some disagreement or difference as to a policy
issue were to have the automatic effect of severing military-to-military
relationships," he told reporters on the flight from Washington.

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