01/14/2014
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"Every gap that we leave is an opening for the Chinese."
"What you have just described is absolutely sickening and horrible."
"If confirmed, I will continue to stand firmly with the Malian people in their aspirations for democracy, peace, development, and respect for human rights."
"I echo Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield's observation that a Mali isolated from its community of nations and ECOWAS is not where Mali wants to be."