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Barack Obama: We have to figure out a mechanism to get those NGOs back in place.

On the recordMarch 29, 2009
We have to figure out a mechanism to get those NGOs back in place.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

Editor's note · Context

Remarks Following a Meeting With United States Special Envoy to Sudan Major General J. Scott Gration

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