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On the recordNovember 30, 2011
if we are going to have democracy, it is not something that the United States does on a unilateral basis, because on a unilateral basis we are leading our allies, it is something that we have to do on a multilateral basis with our allies.
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Gregory Meeks
Democratic · New York

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Meeks argues for multilateral cooperation in promoting democracy.

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