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Ben Cardin: “Unless you are going to somehow or another absolve these two leaders of their wrongdoings and let them continue to have…”

On the recordDecember 9, 2015
Unless you are going to somehow or another absolve these two leaders of their wrongdoings and let them continue to have the resources that they have stolen from their own citizens and probably from us, let us face it, that there is no way this peace agreement is going to come to fruition.
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Ben Cardin
Democratic · Maryland

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Cardin emphasizes the need for accountability to ensure the peace agreement's success.

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