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Jim Risch: “Yemen is a fragile state. It is not a failed state.”

On the recordJanuary 19, 2010
Yemen is a fragile state. It is not a failed state.
Said by
Jim Risch
Republican · Idaho

Editor's note · Context

Risch distinguishes Yemen as fragile but not failed, highlighting its political development.

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