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Neil Abercrombie: So this is not, in fact, a paper organization or merely something that was signed for the pro forma effect, but rather a…

On the recordApril 27, 1999
So this is not, in fact, a paper organization or merely something that was signed for the pro forma effect, but rather a working relationship that, if I remember correctly, just this year had over in the Rayburn Building a formal meeting complete with simultaneous translators and minutes being kept of exchanges between the Duma and Members of the United States Congress.
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Neil Abercrombie
Hawaii

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Discussing the significance of a working relationship between the U.S. Congress and the Duma.

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