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On the recordDecember 19, 2012
Thank you, Madam Chair. Ambassador Burns, you had provided in your testimony, you had said that I know that diplomacy by its very nature sometimes is practiced in dangerous places.
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Brian Higgins
Democratic · New York

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Higgins acknowledges the risks of diplomacy in dangerous regions.

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