"There are so many unintended circumstances when you try and 'gerrymander' the economic system to try and meet your political objectives.
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"President Bush should express no less robust opposition to such Western assistance and particularly to any U.S. government or taxpayer participation in the interest of encouraging a genuine transformation of the Soviet economicandpoliticalsystem, " said Frank J.
We welcomed positive steps being taken in Myanmar that could facilitate national reconciliation, and encouraged further progress towards a democratic and open politicalandeconomicsystem.
The embargo has been maintained to show that Marxist-Leninism does not work as an economic or politicalsystemand to use it as a tool to extract human rights, economicandpolitical concessions from the current or future Cuban government.