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09/12/08
Today, Congressman Eliot L. Engel, the Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere, made the following statement regarding Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez’s announcement that he will expel U.S. Ambassador to Venezuela Patrick Duddy. Engel also commented on his concerns about the degradation of U.S. relations with both Venezuela and Bolivia, and the need to move forward on a positive agenda in the hemisphere.
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09/11/08
Today, Congressman Eliot L. Engel, the Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere, made the following statement regarding Bolivian President Evo Morales’s speech yesterday declaring U.S. Ambassador to Bolivia Philip Goldberg persona non grata and announcing his intent to expel Ambassador Goldberg from the country.
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07/03/08
On June 16, 2008, Rep. Eliot L. Engel, Chair of the Congressional Albanian Issues Caucus, addressed the Assembly of the Republic of Kosova. As the first international official to speak to the Assembly, Engel congratulated the people of Kosova on achieving independence and welcomed the new Kosovar Constitution, which entered into force the day before.
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06/16/08
In September 2001, industry representatives signed an agreement, today known as the “Harkin-Engel Protocol,” developed in partnership with U.S. Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) and U.S. Representative Eliot Engel (D-NY). The agreement laid out a series of steps aimed at eliminating the worst forms of child labor and forced adult labor from cocoa growing in West Africa.
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06/11/08
Congressman Eliot Engel, Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere, is chairing a hearing today on the role of China in the Western Hemisphere. Witnesses at the hearing include Daniel P. Erikson from the Inter-American Dialogue, Evan Ellis from the University of Miami and Francisco Gonzalez from the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at John Hopkins University.
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05/14/08
Today, the House Committee on Foreign Affairs approved the Merida Initiative Act of 2008 (H.R. 6028) with the strong support of Congressman Eliot Engel, the Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere. H.R. 6028 authorizes full funding of the Bush Administration’s request for Mexico and significantly increases funding for the 7 countries of Central America.
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04/10/08
Congressman Eliot Engel, Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere, is chairing a briefing and hearing today on the recent border crisis between Colombia and Ecuador.
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03/06/08
Congressman Eliot Engel, saying he was proud to be the lead Democrat sponsor of a House resolution condemning rockets attacks on Israel, called the attacks “a serious escalation in Hamas’s terror war on Israel.”
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03/04/08
Congressman Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere, sent a letter calling on Organization of American States (OAS) Secretary General José Miguel Insulza and Permanent Council Chairman Cornelius Smith to send a high-level delegation to the Andean region to negotiate a reduction in tensions between Ecuador, Colombia and Venezuela. The letter – signed by a bipartisan group of 14 House members – also calls on the OAS to put in place a better process of crisis communication between the three governments.
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02/19/08
The resignation of Fidel Castro is another step in the transition to a free and democratic Cuba. I have stood with the Cuban people as they have faced the difficulties of the Castro regime which has been in power since 1959, and I will continue to advocate for their liberty.
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