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Chris Coons: “One of the things I am trying to urge that we take greater advantage of is the opportunity posed by a large African…”

On the recordMarch 15, 2011
One of the things I am trying to urge that we take greater advantage of is the opportunity posed by a large African diaspora community in the United States which often is involved not just in remittances but also in possible entrepreneurial activity, building bridges between the United States, our institutions, and their nations of origin.
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Chris Coons
Democratic · Delaware

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Coons advocates leveraging the African diaspora for economic and cultural connections.

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