“Today’s summit broached crucial issues affecting human rights in many countries, election meddling, the conflicts in Syria and Ukraine, and terrorism, among other serious concerns. “The summit must be just the beginning of an important conversation between the two world powers with the hope of changing, or at least beginning to mitigate, a totally unacceptable status quo on these human rights issues. I pressed Russian lawmakers on these concerns at a bilateral meeting that I led last week in B...
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On Thursday, Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) and an expert panel of global health experts discussed the deadly spread of Tuberculosis in Southern Africa, and what more the U.S. can do to help prevent and treat the spread of this disease. “This brutal, contagious disease killed 1.7 million people in 2016, the most recent data available – making it the deadliest infectious disease in the world – killing more than both HIV/AIDS and malaria combined,” Rep. Smith, Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Subcom...
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Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) was recognized by the Autism Society on Thursday as “an amazing champion for individuals with autism and their families” at a reception on Capitol Hill. “Rep. Smith doesn’t just care about people with autism at home,” said Linda Walder, Founder and Executive Director of the Daniel Jordan Fiddle Foundation, who introduced Smith. “He has been very involved in numerous initiatives to help people with autism worldwide. Rep. Smith, thank you for coming to this event to be with...
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Representative Chris Smith (R-NJ), Cochair of the bipartisan Congressional-Executive Commission on China (Commission), and Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL), Chair of the Commission,issued the following statements to commemorate the first anniversary of the death of Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Liu Xiaobo and the release of his wife Liu Xia. “We welcome Liu Xia to a world of freedom she has never known and look forward to her recovery from an unjust and cruel detention. The world owes Liu Xiaobo, Liu Xia...
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Amendments sponsored by Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) that condemn increasing incidents of anti-Semitism, and call on countries to clearly define anti-Semitism and more effectively prosecute hate crimes, were adopted by an international assembly of lawmakers on Monday.
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An international parliamentary assembly of leading lawmakers from 57 countries today adopted a comprehensive resolution, sponsored by Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ), to create trafficking-free communities.
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By Bradford Betz | Fox News Russian delegates at a bilateral meeting in Berlin denied that their country meddled in the 2016 U.S. presidential election and gave no opinion on President Donald Trump, the lawmaker who led the 13-member U.S. delegation said Saturday. U.S. Rep. Chris Smith, R-N.J., a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said he brought up the meddling issue during the meeting, but the members of Russia's Duma who attended dismissed the claims as the work of “just a few Rus...
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On the sideline of a four-day meeting of over 300 lawmakers from 57 countries, Rep. Chris Smith (NJ-04) led a meeting today with lawmakers from the Russian Duma (parliament) to discuss what Smith called "highly contested human rights issues.”
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By Jonathan D. Salant NJ Advance Media for NJ.com -- Rep. Chris Smith, going where President Donald Trump has refused to, pressed Russian officials Saturday on their interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Smith, who led the 13-member U.S. delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, and other U.S. lawmakers met for close to two hours with Russian legislators in Berlin. The meeting lasted almost twice as long as originally sch...
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Just nine days before President Trump is set to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) will lead a U.S. congressional delegation in a bilateral meeting with Russian lawmakers in what could be a new era of U.S.-Russia relations. Of note, Smith was part of the first U.S. Helsinki Commission delegation to visit Moscow, which was critical to efforts to open up regular discussions on human rights with leaders of the then-Soviet Union. The 2018 meeting will include Smith a...
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