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Barack Obama: I encourage direct dialogue to resolve long-standing differences.

On the recordJuly 15, 2011
I encourage direct dialogue to resolve long-standing differences.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

Editor's note · Context

Statement from the Press Secretary on the President's Meeting with His Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama

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