[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 131 (Monday, September 19, 1994)]
[Senate]
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[Congressional Record: September 19, 1994]
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                                 HAITI

  Mr. DORGAN. Madam President, let me begin by speaking about the 
subject I did not intend to speak about, which is Haiti. I wrote to the 
President about a month ago, and I said I did not think an armed 
invasion of Haiti was the right approach. Well, most of us last evening 
heard television and radio reports that an invasion will not be 
necessary.
  But notwithstanding my record on this issue, I think all Americans 
join me in my sense of relief that American soldiers did not confront 
armed resistance on the beaches of Haiti today. I was enormously 
relieved when I discovered that negotiations had apparently been 
successful, and that our negotiating team and the Haitian regime had 
reached an agreement providing that the leaders of the Government of 
Haiti, those who took leadership by force, would give way to those who 
had been democratically elected.
  That was done without bloodshed. I give great credit to President 
Clinton and to the negotiating team of President Carter, General 
Powell, and Senator Nunn. I do hope in the next several weeks that this 
agreement will work as it has been described. I think there is every 
indication that it will.
  But when there is great hand wringing in this country about 
everything going wrong, it appears that one right thing has happened. A 
negotiated settlement, without bloodshed, without American troops 
having to confront an armed force on the shores of Haiti, has occurred. 
That is very good news for Americans and I think good news for Haitians 
as well.

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