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SUBJECTS CONTINUING BELGIAN REACTION TO CZECH DEVELOPMENTS 
lo MEETING IN SPECIAL SESSION AUGUST 231 FOREIGN AFFAIRS 
COMMITTEES OF CHAMBER AND SENATE (SITTING JOINTLY) HEARD REPORT BY FONMIN HARMEL ON CZECH CRISIS AND SUBSEQUEN!~Y ADOPTED UNANIMOUSLY FOLLOWING RESOLUTION CONDEMNING SOVIET ACTION• 
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THE FOREIGN AFFAIRS COMMITTEES OF THE CHAMBER ANO TME SENATE MEETING UNDER JOINT CHAIRMANSHIP OF MESSRS VAN ACKER ANO STRUVE R~ CONDEMN THE MILITARY OCCUPATlONOF CZECHSLOVAKI A BY FORCES OF THE SOVIET UNION, EAST GERMANY1 POLAND~ HU NGARY ANO BULGARIA• a~ STATE THAT THIS OCCUPATION IS AN UNJUSTIFIABLE VtOLATlON Or HUMAN RIGHTS, OF THE UN CHARTER ANO OF CZECH INDEPENDENCE AND SOVEREIGNTY AS WELL AS AN OPEN INTERVENTION IN TME INTER NAL AFFAIRS OF THAT NATION• s~ DENOUNCE WITH INDIGNATION THE RECOURSE TO FORCE AGAINST 
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AA EXPRESS THElR PROrOUNo . SYMPATHY FOR THE CZECH PEOPLE WHO BEAR TH 'I S CRUEL ! BURDEN ' W1I TH · COUR~GEi AND · ort GNlTY '• ... '"' -HONOR THE CZECH · MEN AN Di WOMEN WHO HAVE F~LLEN AS vi en MS QF ; THE AGGRESSION AGAINST ' THE 'IR COUNTRY• OQ APPROVE THE ' STATEMENT ' OF ' THE FOREIGN MINISTER AND INViTE: THE GOVERNMENT TO CONT1 NUE TO 00 1 ALL . THAT 1T -~AN TO AND AN AC'T'ION CONTRARY TO THE ' MOST ELEMENTAL INTERNATtONAL 
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