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Senator Helms Addresses UN Security Council

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 March 2017

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Contemporary Practice of the United States Relating to International Law
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 2000

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References

1 Barbara Crossette, Helms, in Visit to U.N., Offers Harsh Message, N.Y. TIMES, Jan. 21, 2000, at Al.

2 See UN Press Release on Secretary-General Presents His Annual Report to General Assembly, UN Doc. SG/SM/7136-GA/9596 (1999).

3 Address by Senator Jesse Helms, Chairman, U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, Before the United Nations Security Council (Jan. 20, 2000), awzjZaftfem<http://www.senate.gov/foreign/2000/pr012000.html>.

4 Since the meeting of the Security Council was informal, there is no standard verbatim record available. The comments noted here are recorded on cassette tapes made of the session by the United Nations (on file at GWU). Ambassador Dejammet spoke in French. For the reaction of the secretary of state and Senator Biden, see Colum Lynch, Helms’s View Is Not U.S. ’s, Albright Tells U.N., WASH. POST, Jan. 25, 2000, at A14.

5 U.S. Dep’t of State Press Release on Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright Welcoming Remarks at the UN Security Council Session on the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Jan. 24, 2000), available in <http://secretary.state.gov/www/statements/2000/000124.html>.