"This includes making allowances for humanitarian organizations to operate in sanctioned territory, and it also includes preparing to welcome the likely influx of refugees fleeing the conflict. As always, the countries immediately bordering Ukraine will face the greatest burden."Read on Twitter
Here are other recent tweets from Ilhan Omar:
"Finally, we must direct some of the unity and resolve that we and our partners have shown in this crisis toward the civilians that are in harms way."Read on Twitter
"I am heartened that the Biden Administration has included humanitarian exemptions and general licenses to the first tranche of sanctions, but I am also aware that exemptions and licenses have never been sufficient to prevent indiscriminate human suffering."Read on Twitter
"I support sanctions that are targeted at Putin, his oligarchs, and the Russian military, especially targeted at their offshore assets. But will continue to oppose broad-based sanctions that would amount to collective punishment of a Russian population that did not choose this."Read on Twitter
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