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Dick Durbin: “Our sanctions currently already do prohibit and investment in the Syrian oil sector.”

On the recordNovember 8, 2011
Our sanctions currently already do prohibit and investment in the Syrian oil sector.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois

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Durbin discusses existing sanctions on the Syrian oil sector.

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