[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 17 (Thursday, February 24, 1994)]
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                           SUPPORT FOR BOSNIA

  (Mr. MORAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. MORAN. Mr. Speaker, Prime Minister Haris Silajdzic is in 
Washington today, and I would hope that Americans would listen to what 
he says so that they would understand why the future of Bosnia is so 
important to the future of our world in terms of tolerance, democratic 
representation, ethnic and global peace and brotherhood. Mr. Silajdzic 
is a Moslem. The Speaker of the Bosnia Assembly is a Serb. The 
representative of the Bosnian Presidency is a Croat. The Ambassador to 
the United States from Bosnia is a Jew.
  Bosnia represents one of the finest multiethnic expressions of a 
democratic nation on this globe, certainly as an example of what we 
hoped would result from the dissolution of the Soviet Union. That is 
why they are under siege, because the people that wish to take over 
Bosnia, to destroy Bosnia are threatened by the idea of multiethnic 
democracies. People like Milosevic and Karadzic prey upon the worst 
instincts of mankind. Bosnia represents the best instincts of mankind.
  I would ask that this Congress and the American people show support 
for Bosnia in a way that is true to our own heritage and consistent 
with our own national character, the character of a nation founded on 
the same principles and dedicated to the same sense of fairness and 
justice as are the principal people of Bosnia.

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