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Transcript: SEN. JESSE HELMS FOREIGN RELATIONS COMMITTEE MEETING WITH CHINESE AND TIBETAN DISSIDENTS
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- October 28, 1997
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Opening Remarks by Senator Jesse Helms
Foreign Relations Committee Meeting
with Chinese and Tibetan Dissidents
October 28, 1997
I will keep my remarks very brief because I convened this
meeting to hear from our distinguished guests.
I am honored to welcome you to the United States Capitol,
and to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Normally, the Foreign
Relations
Committee hosts visiting heads-of-state in this room. But I felt it
that,
with all the honors the Chinese President is receiving during his
State
visit, it is equally important that we in Congress hear from representatives
of the Chinese people as well.
So, as the Chinese ...