Afternoon or good evening, depending on wherever you are sitting right now and joining us for this session. May peace be upon you. It is my great pleasure to welcome you to the second event of the embassy of afghanistans listen and peace series. We are glad to be hosting this event on lebanons agreement and partnership with the Atlantic Council. A wonderful partner of the embassy in washington, i want to offer a very warm thank you to the Atlantic Council for their help in organizing this very important discussion. And all the great work that they are continuously doing. Furthermore, i would like to express my gratitude to doctor patricia, and doctor daniel. For taking this time to share their knowledge and insight with us today. , and busted or i think you not just for joining us today but for all of the great work you have done in afghanistan over the years. Its an honor to have you with us today, thank you for moderating and guiding us through this conversation. For those of you who
His absolute priority and he is getting working already in the next 24 hours hell be naming a corona virus taskforce that he will be sitting up he has been advised by various experts for a long period of time now among them ron klain who was the a boat and barack obama but we understand as well that this task force is going to be headed by beck murphy whos a former said Surgeon General appointed by obama and then fired by donald trump in 2018 as well as a former commissioner of the food and Drug Administration David Kessler so this is really a heavyweight team that will be advising biden and which will form part of his Coronavirus Task force as he and his. Vice president elect come heris go forward but biden has made very clear through his campaign and hes made very clear since he was spoke as president elect that he believes that the way to combat the pen did make is to follow the science. And to find donald trump has refused to concede defeat and is preparing for a series of legal fi
Normalize relations between isra and the arab nations. Also middle east policy goals for t Biden Administration challenges posed by irannd the israelipalestinian conflict. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome David Rubenstein come present of the Economic Club of washington, d. C. Welcome everyone, to our ninth virtual signature event of our 35th 35th season but its really not completely virtual because for the First Time Since covid has hit we are actually having live guests here today and its because its a special program and i want to thank our live guests for coming in at participating and a unique programor us because we have been doing everything virtual for almost nine months now i guess it is but our guests are here to talk out something very special, the Abraham Accords which assigned at the white house on september 15 with hea of each of these countries as well as President Trump eating there as the official host. Let me introduce our guess and i will make some announcemen aft
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