Necessary measures to nurture a favorable Business Environment for investors in both countries. The stores in more than five times. I walk into primetime years its third state to endure a sixteen year in korea one from so i need to pay them come and pay so much for joining us. We begin in new delhi where present back in a health of bilateral summit with their Indian Counterpart Manmohan Singh on the stairs to the two leaders agreed to upgrade their free trade pact as early as possible and take necessary measures to nurture a favorable Business Environment for investors in both countries the president ial Office Correspondence us and she was traveling with the president sends us this report president next visit in dna sampling it now for korean firms to more easily and treat the worlds second largest market by population one of the best notable accomplishments of the seven talks between president pack and indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on thursday the two leaders decided to quickl
Ambassador susan rice focusing on her scripted Television Appearances following the benghazi tragedy today ambassador rice withdrew her name from consideration to be nominated for secretary of state. In an interview with brian williams, rice pointed to the distraction the republican attacks have caused. Today i made the decision that it was the best thing for our country for the American People that i not continue to be considered by the president for nomination as secretary of state because i didnt want to see a confirmation process that was very prolonged very politicized, very distracting and very disruptive because there are so many things we need to get done, as a country. And the first several months of the second term president s agenda is really the opportunity to get the crucial things done. Were talking about comprehensive Immigration Reform balanced deficit reduction, job creation, thats what matters and to the extent that my nomination could have delayed or distracted or de
On her scripted Television Appearances following the benghazi tragedy today ambassador rice withdrew her name from consideration to be nominated for secretary of state. In an interview with brian williams, rice pointed to the distraction the republican attacks have caused. Today i made the decision that it was the best thing for our country for the American People that i not continue to be considered by the president for nomination as secretary of state because i didnt want to see a confirmation process that was very prolonged very politicized, very distracting and very disruptive because there are so many things we need to get done, as a country. And the first several months of the second term president s agenda is really the opportunity to get the crucial things done. Were talking about comprehensive Immigration Reform balanced deficit reduction, job creation, thats what matters and to the extent that my nomination could have delayed or distracted or deflected or made even some of th
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Board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. Okay, are there any changes to the agenda . No. Okay. So, can you please call the first item . Item number 1 is a hearing on the San Francisco employees retirement system sfers investments in russian securities; the feasibility, consistent with sferss fiduciary obligations to retirees, of sfers divesting from russian securities, given russias continuing persecution of members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community; and sferss policy regarding responses to inquiries from members of the board of supervisors about policy matters of interest to residents of San Francisco. Okay, thank you. And i would like to turn this over to my colleague, supervisor scott wiener. Thank you, madam chair, and thank you for accommodating this hearing in terms of timing. We very much appreciate it. So, colleagues, today before us we are holding a hearing relating to the extreme persecution of the Lgbt Community in russia that has been occu