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Barack Obama: The United States shares the view of most countries that the U.N. drug conventions—without negotiation or amendment—are…

On the recordSeptember 14, 2014
The United States shares the view of most countries that the U.N. drug conventions—without negotiation or amendment—are resilient enough to unify countries that often hold divergent views of the causes of the international narcotics problem.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

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Presidential Determination on Major Drug Transit or Major Illicit Drug Producing Countries for Fiscal Year 2015

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