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Washington (AFP) – Some 135 years after the arrival of its big sister in New York, a relatively diminutive replica Statue of Liberty was unveiled Wednesday in the US capital as a token of American-French friendship. The replica, standing at around 10 feet (three meters) tall — compared to the famed 300-foot-tall New York version — was inaugurated by French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian and his US counterpart, Antony Blinken. The bronze statue was erected in the garden of the residence of France’s ambassador in Washington. On its journey from Paris, it travelled via Liberty Island, so…