[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 128 (Wednesday, July 21, 2021)]
[House]
[Page H3768]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         CZECH DEPOT EXPLOSION

  (Mr. WILSON of South Carolina asked and was given permission to 
address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. WILSON of South Carolina. Mr. Speaker, this month, I was grateful 
to participate in a Congressional delegation of the OSCE Parliamentary 
Assembly led by Senator Roger Wicker and Senator Ben Cardin. It was 
inspiring to see the extraordinary economic advances of Estonia and 
Bulgaria.
  In Tallinn, Estonia, we were welcomed by the dynamic Prime Minister, 
Kaja Kallas, and the dedicated Foreign Minister, Eva-Maria Liimets. 
While in Tallinn, we learned that Russian diplomats had been expelled 
in April across the Baltics to join the protest of the Czech Prime 
Minister, Andrej Babis, exposing the irrefutable evidence that two 
Russian GRU agents were behind the 2014 ammunition depot explosion at 
Vrbetice, which killed two persons.
  The same two Russian agents named by the Czech Republic are suspected 
by British authorities for poisoning former Russian double agent Sergei 
Skripal and his daughter in England in 2018. The Czech Republic has 
correctly demanded Russia pay for damages.
  Mr. Speaker, I thank Chalmers and Lori Anne Carr of Titan Farms for 
their annual delivery of South Carolina peaches to Capitol Hill.
  In conclusion, God bless our troops, and we will never forget 
September the 11th in the global war on terrorism.

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