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HomeAimee Falkun, the Strategic Advisor with the PM Bureau’s Office of Weapons Removal and Abatement, inspects MANPADS tubes set out for destruction, Kyrgyz Republic, 2019. (State Department photo)

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Aimee Falkun, the Strategic Advisor with the PM Bureau’s Office of Weapons Removal and Abatement, inspects MANPADS tubes set out for destruction, Kyrgyz Republic, 2019. (State Department photo)

April 5, 2021

Aimee Falkun, the Strategic Advisor with the PM Bureau’s Office of Weapons Removal and Abatement, inspects MANPADS tubes set out for destruction, Kyrgyz Republic, 2019. (State Department photo)

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