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On the recordJuly 11, 1995
The administration has also lobbied this Congress against lifting the arms embargo and this Congress has voted overwhelmingly on a couple of occasions to lift the arms embargo. I do not think that the administration is proposing effective solutions at all in this area and I think it behooves us in Congress to state very, very strongly that we will not stand for human rights abuses in this part of the world. Perhaps if we had been showing a little gumption over the past few years, the Serbs would not be acting the way they are acting in the Balkans.
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Eliot Engel
Democratic · New York

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Addressing the arms embargo and human rights abuses in the Balkans.

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