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Eliot Engel: “I hope we will have the opportunity in the very near future to vote on it, and at least it is some small positive step.…”

On the recordApril 19, 1994
I hope we will have the opportunity in the very near future to vote on it, and at least it is some small positive step. The frustration, of course, now is that we are dealing with small steps that at this stage of the carnage does not have much--does not do that much. But if these things had been done a while back, it would have been different. But at least we can attempt to change it. And there is just one thing I want to say, that if we are not going to defend these people, then we ought to make sure that the civilian populations in Gorazde and other places are able to be safe supposedly with these safe havens. I mean the hypocrisy of designating safe zones and then not allowing them to be safe.
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Eliot Engel
Democratic · New York

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Addressing the need for effective action to protect civilian populations in conflict zones.

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