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As a former assistant secretary of state for democracy, human rights and labor, I have great regard for the group Reporters Without Borders. Unfortunately, the article co-written by its president, Jean-Francois Julliard ("Emissary entanglements," Opinion, Aug. 12) is not up to the organization's usually high standards.
In particular, the characterization of Ambassador-designate to Azerbaijan Matthew Bryza as someone unconcerned with human rights is simply incorrect. In a decade of working with Mr. Bryza, I have found his work on behalf of the oppressed to be unremitting, skillful and creative. In the period leading up to Georgia's Rose Revolution, for example, I remember Mr. Bryza approaching me with the idea to ask former Secretary of State James A. Baker III to visit his old friend, President Eduard Shevardnadze, to urge free and fair 2003 elections.See the full content of this document
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Bryza Is a Champion of Democracy
It would have been all too easy to conclude that Georgia's fr...
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