07/20/2009
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"I am hopeful you will join me today and encourage the continuation of the special envoy role following your departure to Baku."
"Thank you very much, Madam Chairman. I thank you, and I thank my colleague, Senator Barrasso, for yielding this time."
"Latvia and Estonia are relatively young but active and influential members of NATO and the EU."
"If confirmed, my priorities on this issue will be to continue to voice U.S. objection to Russia's occupation and militarization of the separatist Georgian regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia."