Samantha Power: “I wholeheartedly agree with the importance of maintaining the significant development gains made in Afghanistan over the…”

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The challenge the world faces today is clear: The decades of development gains that have laid the foundation for an era of relative peace, stability, and prosperity are at serious risk.

Let me just take this occasion to express great, great admiration for the courage of the young people, and the Iranian people really of all generations who have come out, wanting for themselves the same things all of us want and every…

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