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Promotion of Free Press Abroad Must Remain Priority for U.S.,
Ros-Lehtinen Says   Location: Washington, DC  U.S. Rep. Ileana
Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs
Committee, released the following statement today commemorating
World Press Freedom Day. Statement by Ros-Lehtinen:  "In the
United States and other free nations, we depend on a free press
to inform the people and place a check on the power of
government by making it accountable to its citizens. Whenever
and wherever the rights of the press are threatened, the rights
of the people are sure to be in the ruling regime's crosshairs
as well.  "Year after year in nations such as Cuba and North
Korea, people are kept in near complete darkness about what is
going on in their country and in the world. In many nations,
such as Russia, journalists are targeted for the perceived
threat they pose to those in power. Other dictatorial regimes,
including those in the Latin American na