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Chris Smith: “My hope would be that any U.N. personnel, any member agency, voluntary agency--UNFPA, for example--if there is a country…”

On the recordOctober 4, 2011
My hope would be that any U.N. personnel, any member agency, voluntary agency--UNFPA, for example--if there is a country that is practicing torture, for example, the U.N. police, peacekeepers, should in no way be complicit in that.
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Chris Smith
Republican · New Jersey

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Smith expresses concern about U.N. complicity in countries practicing torture.

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