Chris Coons actually said...

I would hope that you can impress on the governments that you will be representing us in, or with, the importance of not living up to some artificially high standard that we have set, but living up to their own documents, their own charters, with regard to SADC or the AU that they have maintained as a high standard that all of them will live up to.

05/06/2013

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