Good morning and thank you all for joining us today. Also, our live stream audience. Atlantic Council President and ceo fred kemp. Thanks for joining us both here in the room and virtually for our conversation. If you want to use social media, use ac iraq. Aciraq. You know its an important event when the ambassador is 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
Good morning and thank you all for joining us today. Also, our live stream audience. Atlantic Council President and ceo fred kemp. Thanks for joining us both here in the room and virtually for our conversation. If you want to use social media, use ac iraq. Aciraq. You know its an important event when the ambassador is 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
Whole system of automatic Early Release was broken by that i need to know whether or not the parole board were involved. And thousands of protesters turned out in malta demands in the immediate resignation of the Prime Minister. Call have all your support and clearing signing off in style i will turn will be far right on the formula one stephen in our we debate action and reaction coming up. I am. But we begin in iraq where parliaments has approved Prime Minister Abdullah Abdullah matties resignation so attention that turns to who will replace and can that person put a stop to months of violence and government protests its now up to the largest parliamentary bloc to choose the next Prime Minister and submit their choice see president barham salih outgoing Prime Minister abdul mahdi handed in his resignation of course on saturday no news of his departure brought iraqis out onto the streets once again as they continue their Pressure Campaign pushing for a complete political overhaul reme
Here. Thank you for Crescent Petroleum and for the Global Energy center. Maji has been a person ive been stealing ideas from for a long period of time. He happens to be one of the best thinkers and actors and an analysts of the region. Its always a pleasure to have him here. So thank you so much for being here. Todays event was organized by the councils Global Energy center. Our Iraq Initiative is led by has been our who moderator today. Its been a game changer having abas working with us. Hes one of those rare individual who is understands the workings of the countries hes covering iraq so intimately but also the workings of washington which in many respects is sometimes more difficult to follow. This mornings discussion is iraqs facing the daunting challenge with crisis underway and citizens demanding reform as well as the news just yesterday that Prime Minister adal adomadi will resign. Despite the current unrest and uncertainty of the future iraq has made significant progress in ye
We are building a really good and rapid rapport. We have agreed, and ive made it perfectly clear to the ambassador at every stage that we will be treating those individuals with dignity and respect. The ambassador visited a civic centre in g rays ambassador visited a civic centre in grays and has paid tribute there. But underlying that we do not know exactly the nationality of our individuals but i will focus and engage as much as i possibly can within the Vietnamese Community. Looking at those abroad, we may be able to use fingerprints which could speed up the process and hopefully well. But looking at those at home, it becomes a far more complex scenario because it may well be that there are people watching this tonight thinking they are here in the uk and here illegally and they wa nt to the uk and here illegally and they want to come forward. They want to try and identify their loved ones and be reunited but they are frightened. I have met this morning, andi frightened. I have met