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Jim Risch: “It is necessary for us to ask the world to start sanctions. First of all, this is the immediate release of all political…”

On the recordJanuary 26, 2011
It is necessary for us to ask the world to start sanctions. First of all, this is the immediate release of all political prisoners without any negotiations with the dictator and organize new Presidential elections.
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Jim Risch
Republican · Idaho

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Advocates for sanctions and the release of political prisoners in Belarus.

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