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Secretary of State Colin Powell's Visit to the Middle East

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE
Office of the Spokesman
(Jerusalem)

For Immediate Release February 25, 2001

Comments by U.S. Secretary of State Colin L Powell
during visit to Yad Vashem

Jerusalem
February 25, 2001

SECRETARY POWELL: Thank you. I am very deeply touched by this memorial and I wanted to finally have the opportunity to visit it. And I leave with the inspiration that it gives to all that we must never forget. We must never forget and always remember the spirit of those who perished during those terrible times.

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