Good morning and thank you all for joining us. Also our livestream audience. Im Atlantic Council president and ceo fred kempe. Thanks for joining us both here in the room and virtually for our conversation. If you want to use social media, use aciraq, aciraq. You know its an important event when the ambassador is here, when key members of our board are here and its always such a pleasure to have our International Advisory board member mijid jafar here. Thank you, Crescent Petroleum for this, for iraqi Global Energy center. Miji dichlt has been a person ive been stealing ideas from for a long time. He happens to be one of the best thinkers and actors both in the Business World and analyst of the region. And its always a pleasure to have him here as well. Todays event was organized by Iraq Initiative and global initiative. Our Iraq Initiative is led by abbas kadhim, who will be our moderator. Its been a game changer having abbas working with us. Hes one of those rare individuals who unde
Here and when key members of our board are here and its always such a pleasure to have our International Advisory board member jafar here. Thank you for Crescent Petroleum support for this, for the Iraq Initiative, Global Energy center. Ive been stealing ideas from a long period of time, he happens to be one of the best thinkers and actors as an analyst in the region and also a pleasure to have him here as well. Todays event was organized by the councils Iraq Initiative and Global Energy center. Our Iraq Initiative is led by dr. And abbas working with us. Hes one of the rare individuals who understands the workings of the country hes covering, iraq, so intimately and also the workings of washington which in many respects is more difficult to follow. The discussion is timely. Iraq is facing its most challenging since isis, with protests in the country and citizens demanding reform and news just yesterday that ahmadi will resign. Despite the future, iraq has carried out elections and a p
Not only to meet its own needs for power and industry, but to be a major exporter by pipeline. Well, thank you for that. Back to iran. You mentioned, i mean, i gave you so many questions and i realize that, but that what we do as academics. Im trying to learn to be in this business. You know, because you need to really test whats there and that, you know, how doing from how to go from talking to students to experts, thats a different story. But let me follow up on my questions and your answers. People talk about two scenarios that are plausible. The demands of the protesters and many people in Political Parties, especially those who have their eyes on his job, and they think realistically they can have it. There are those more interested in reform. They think the resignation of the government of the Prime Minister will put iraq through a long tunnel, the parties would not be able to form another government for a long time. Then continued protests, and protests mean a lot more destructi
Top job france and germany clash over who should become the next president of the European Commission. And africas football stars grabbing in the spotlight that is the africa cup of nations gets underway in egypt we report on the issues beyond the stadiums democracy activists have denounced egypts hosting of this turn. Im brian thomas thanks so much for joining us chinese president xi jinping has arrived in north korea for his 1st state visit their talks with his host kim jong are likely to center on changs Nuclear Program now that after a summit earlier this year between kim jong un and us President Donald Trump ended without any agreement and with china backing sanctions on the north and that strain ties between those 2 countries. Its been less than 6 months since his handshake kim jong un has visited china north koreas closest foreign ally many times over the years. She jinping on the other hand is the 1st chinese leader to travel to pyongyang and well over a decade. We are ready to
And produced a final report with recommendations. The purpose was to look at the how we of long lines and could make polling places more efficient so voters didnt have ofwait very long periods time. The establishing commission made it clear that we should be looking at all the potential sources of dysfunction and potential reforms at the polling place and the fundamental piece of the commission or the executive order was that we ought to have an electoral process that is sufficiently one and has appropriate safeguards so that only eligible voters vote and no unnecessary impediments should be put in the path of voters. They should be able to cast their ballots in a recently efficient way, taking into account that we want to serve them the way the biggest and best companies serve their customers and ought to have confidence their vote would be correctly received, stored, and tabulated. Ensuring that only eligible voters vote. Voter fraud was part of what you looked into . What youof that