[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 8 (Tuesday, January 23, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H749]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




    PRESIDENT CHIRAC DISREGARDS HEALTH AND WELFARE OF SOUTH PACIFIC

  (Mr. FALEOMAVAEGA asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. FALEOMAVAEGA. Mr. Speaker, sometime next week President Ghirac of 
France will be visiting Washington to meet with our President, and I 
understand there may even be a chance that he will address a joint 
session of the Congress. Mr. Speaker, give me a break. This is the man 
with tremendous arrogance and disregard for the concerns of some 170 
nations.
  He totally disregarded the concerns of the health and welfare of some 
27 million men, women, and children who live in the nations of the 
Pacific. He disregarded and decided to break the moratorium and has 
already exploded five nuclear bombs in atolls in the South Pacific.
  Mr. Speaker, by my last count, President Chirac and his predecessors 
have already exploded 182 nuclear bombs in the atmosphere and in 2 
Pacific atolls. One of these atolls is a timed nuclear bomb, the 
equivalent of several Chernobyls that the French Government has forced 
upon the lives of the Pacific people. Is this fair, Mr. Speaker?
  Shame on you, President Chirac of France. Shame on you for doing this 
to the Pacific people.

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