I want to assure you, Mr. Chairman, that we are going to pursue this into the next Administration.
Our sanctions work best when we do coordinate with other countries.
My analysis, kind of--you know, inchoate analysis of sanctions in the 12 years I have been here is that we have been bet...
the gross abuse of human rights that is going on in the country.
We do not impose sanctions for punitive reasons. We impose sanctions for change of behavior.
This is a clear, missed opportunity to use Global Magnitsky sanctions.
The primary goal is to change behavior.