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Mark Warner: “What our President has done, to hope that the United Nations will move in the right direction, is to go there and speak…”

On the recordOctober 4, 2002
What our President has done, to hope that the United Nations will move in the right direction, is to go there and speak to them and to lead, together with others--the Prime Minister of Great Britain and others--lead, not wait and see in what direction they go. No, that is the reason for the timing of this resolution.
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Mark Warner
Democratic · Virginia

Editor's note · Context

Discussing the President's approach to the United Nations in relation to a resolution.

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