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Eliot Engel: “If the Permanent Council meets to discuss how to deal with the tragedy in Haiti, but does not take up how Venezuela is…”

On the recordDecember 14, 2011
If the Permanent Council meets to discuss how to deal with the tragedy in Haiti, but does not take up how Venezuela is violating the Inter-American Democratic Charter, we will withhold 20 percent of our contributions to the OAS.
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Eliot Engel
Democratic · New York

Editor's note · Context

Engel warns of funding cuts if the OAS ignores Venezuela's democratic violations.

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