Breathing thing. Especially in the technology world, where you have Companies Like twitter that are young. Twitter will turn 9 later this year. Some of you in this room think it has been here forever, but it has not been here forever. Not even close. Because of the truncated cycles of our world in the media and Technology Full fold, there is a sense of attachment to things, including culture. Even in cultures like ours, there is this poll to preserve parts of our culture. At twitter, we have certain like you have these core values, at twitter, we have a number of them too. We want to create a culture where those values can continue to exist, but that is different from preserving the culture. I actually think so, inwardly facing, our responsibility as a Leadership Team is to create an environment where those types of values can continue to flourish. Also, being really openminded about some of these things are falling down. I will give you a specific example. We have two core values whic
Undercut the argument for the necessity to pass this bill in the first place. It is a rational thing for all companies to do is to do the kinds of things this bill requires. You dont need to pass the bill. Not passing and is not going to have a substantial effect on interstate commerce. Discrimination is not going to be having substantial effect on your state congress. Companies are going to be taking steps to get rid of it, anyway. I think there are going to be situations where taking Sexual Orientation into account is going to make sense. It may not be common and it may not be something that involves what most companies do this is another problem with passing onesizefitsall federal legislation. It may be that people who make airplanes have no reason to consider Sexual Orientation. The people who are in the caregiving business might want to consider Sexual Orientation. It just depends. There are thousands of businesses out there. They are all different. I dont think we should be passi
Cease fire broken and renewed fighting and oil fields between government and rebel forces. And i have the sports including the unfinished stadium and will they get the first red card of brazils world cup . Protests in kiev have again turned violent as the crowd was prevented from marching to the Ukrainian Parliament building and this is the scene outside the Parliament Building right now and they were stopped from marching right up to the building by a row of trucks some hundred meters away. They wanted to keep up the pressure on president Viktor Yanukovich and they are camped out in freezing temperatures and the black smoke we believe to be from barricades of burning tires and we are joined from kiev by journalists mira and you were down near the Parliament Building this morning. Item tell us what happened there. Well, the protesters have turned this so called peaceful attention to the government for sometime now and because they have been out on the streets for almost three months th
We were seeing such a sharp rise. As we look at the issue were closing, we realized that really wasnt true. Many of the new middle class and trends when not traveling to the United States. They were still traveling inside brazil. We were seeing increased travel but uppermiddleclass. Because they had more disposable income and they had developed an interest in travel. Even though we had to run really hard in order to fashion a visa process that reduced wait times down to two days and accommodate the Many Brazilians traveling to the United States, we recognize that there is a new group of entrance into the middle class that have yet to attempt to travel to the United States but hat they are coming. It is kind of like a rogue wave out there. It is in the middle of the ocean and not stopping. Through expanding our consular sections and the number of officers we have in building out the interview windows we have, we are building a capacity to produce 1. 8 million to 2 million visas a year.
As far as the Iranian Nuclear program, the breakthrough has been achieved this year, but it is just the first step, and the search must be continued for a broader solution that guarantees irans inalienable right to develop Peaceful Nuclear energy and also region including israel. Now what is happened . The Iranian Nuclear program is problem is going away but the adm system is still there, not just there, but the situation is developed further. More on that later. Once again, russia is prepared to join any and all partners in the interest of securing shared, equal, and individual security. And fighting drug trafficking, enhancing the mpt, fighting International Terrorism and other things is what we will continue to do this year. We will be guided by the same principles in the course of preparing the summit that russia will host in 2015. We are entering the final stage of reparation of the agreement on eurasian economic union. We believe that by may 1, 2014, the language of the agreement