Members of the U.S. Congress sent a letter to the Council of Europe asking it to rescind an invitation to Hamas members to attend a Parliamentary Assembly meeting. The members of the House of Representatives’ International Relations Committee said the delegation from the Palestinian Legislative Council should not be allowed to attend the assembly’s Middle East subcommittee meeting in Strasbourg, France, scheduled for April 10-13.
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