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By Pete WinnApril 10, 2012Subscribe to Pete Winn’s posts
(CNSNews.com) – The U.S. State Department failed to comply with the deadline imposed by the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 that requires it to submit to Congress by Feb. 25 each year reports on the human rights conditions in countries around the world.
A State Department spokesman said Tuesday the country reports on human rights had not been released in either February or March and that the department was waiting to release them at a time when Secretary of State Hillary Clinton can personally do so.
“They’ve been postponed a couple of times, the roll-out, because of scheduling issues, and because the Secretary wants to personally roll out the reports due to the importance she places on human rights,” Anthony Pahigian, spokesman for the Bureau of Democracy, Rights and Labor at the State Department, told CNSNews.com.
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