[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 115 (Tuesday, August 16, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: August 16, 1994]
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                         WORLD AIDS CONFERENCE

  Mr. MILLER of California. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to 
address the House for 1 minute.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the 
gentleman from California?
  There was no objection.
  Ms. PELOSI. Mr. Speaker, will the gentleman yield?
  Mr. MILLER of California. I yield to the gentlewoman from California.
  Ms. PELOSI. Mr. Speaker, last week the world's AIDS conference was 
held in Japan. As Members may have noticed from the press, at that 
meeting there was some medium news, not good, and some discouraging 
news.
  I call the attention of my colleagues to that meeting because the 
statistics that came from the meeting were discouraging in terms of the 
spread of AIDS through Asia. In India, the number of AIDS cases will be 
the largest in the world in a very short period of time. The prospects 
for a cure or for a vaccine are limited. Therefore, it makes prevention 
an absolute must, not only a must but a moral responsibility.
  I also note that in the past few months we saw a meeting of the G-7. 
It has been on the agenda of some of us in the Congress to get AIDS on 
the agenda of the G-7 meetings. It seems to me logical that if the 
largest economic powers, industrialized countries in the world come 
together to meet about the future of the world, the economy of the 
world, that they must take into consideration what AIDS is doing to 
certain economies throughout the world and what it will do.
  So I call again, enlist the support of my colleagues to call upon the 
administration to put AIDS on the agenda of the next G-7 summit.

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