Hosted by the Plymouth Center in austin, texas. Im a professor here at the lbj School University of texas. Its a great pleasure to welcome you all here. Its my pleasure to moderate this panel. I will introduce the panelist really because you have their bios. I wont go through their bios in my introduction. Its an interesting time to be talking about europe. Period in which the attention of the world shifted away from europe, we tended to take for granted the achievement of a more united europe. Now that assumption is being called into question. The achievement of a more united europe, including Eastern Europe and western europe, is one of the most monumental achievements of my lifetime. I wouldnt say its under threat, but it is facing numerous challenges from russia, from the greek debt crisis, from immigration, from brexit, and from the president elect of United States. All the things conspired to make europe more interesting. Lets put it this way. The period, the Reagan Administratio
Plus the north Korea Nuclear threat. It could fire off the latest round of missiles as early as tomorrow. The u. S. Dropping in the meantime the largest nonnuclear bomb on afghanistan yesterday. The mother of all bombs targeting the Islamic State. The latest on the United States message of force to the rest of the world. Amid rising geo political tensions investors have pulled back. A rocky week for stars, all three major market gains down three days in the row. Markets are closed for the holiday today. Bellagio hotel up in flames, Las Vegas Strip shutting down after rooftop caught on fire. We have the latest there. The United Airlines problem, a man stung by a scorp own after it fell from an overhead ben. That claim says he will take legal action against the airline after detailing the extent of his injuries. Plus the drug crisis in america, las vegas becoming the first city in the country to have a vending machine filled with needles for addicts. And holiday could mean a big weekend
Afghanistan is in its youth. While you are not quite youth, you are still a representation of the new generation that comes from a different background but has lived through a lot of the tragedy of afghanistan. If you could make a minute to talk about your background. In brief, i would say that as child no one believed that would be in this position. The people of my country gave me the honor of serving in the most important diplomatic position. That is a showing of where afghanistan is. We have had over 30 years of a difficult period but the afghanistan people are hard working and they have turned the table around. Today afghanistan is a functioning democracy, it has, as president mentioned, opportunities for our youth, for our population, and the opportunities that we didnt have, we have pulled out selves out of the rubble and built our country. A democracy we continue to build on. You and your family went through a lot in the process getting here. The vast majority of afghans suffer
From others in the World Community working together in harmony towards a common goal. Address to much conflict to be embraced by the World Community. And with the diplomatic community. This independence from britain they appreciate in the first diplomatic ties from 1921 to reinforce stand consolidated and the population is almost 32 million. And only 27 percent of the population lives in the urban area with two official languages. Afghanistan is a land winked , not long not locked almost as big as the state of texas but take that as the complement. With the demographic of less it is equally boys and girls young men and women equal empowerment and the future of afghanistan will not be as bright they 2012 usf afghanistan finding jury Strategic Partnership and to promote peace and Economic Opportunity and now at 200,000 strong the Africa Armed Forces hitting together by a common cause to help develop a new afghanistan with numerous challenges and threatens to supersede to the internal Sec
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