The Atlantic Council in washington, d. C. Posted this discussion. Hello, and welcome to the Atlantic Council. I am the resident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council and the director of the Iraqi Initiative. This is an Iraqi Initiative event. It is on record. Feel free to tweet, quote our excellent guest, and enjoy the event. We look forward to a timely, great conversation with our guest. And we will carry this live and you are welcome, if you are not here and you are watching us, you are also welcome to tweet ashtag aciraq. This is to the ac middle east center here, acmideast. Here is the format. We will get brief remarks after i finish and then i will ask some questions, then we open it to the audience for some questions. That is how we are going to proceed today. Our esteemed guest is a member of the Iraqi Council of representatives. He is a member of the future parliamentary group, deputy chairman of the Civil Society committee, a very Important Committee in the iraqi theiament, an
Tweet, excellent guests and enjoy the event, we look forward to a timely great conversation where our guests and we will carry this live and you are welcome, if you are not here and you are watching us, you are also welcome to tweet using the aciraq and this is to the middle east center here ac middle east, here is the format. Brief remarks after i finish here and then i will ask him some questions, then we open to audience for questions. So thats what we are going to proceed today. Our esteemed guest, member of the iraqi consul of representatives, hes a member of the future parliamentary group, chairman of the Civil Society committee, very Important Committee in Iraqi Parliament and he is a member of the iraqUnited States friendship committee. Hene was a cofounder of the new Generation Movement and he previously worked in washington as bureau chief for nrt and u. S. Tv and also worked for u. S. Embassy in baghdad as political cultural adviser, holds master degree in Public Policy from
All a question of sovereignty you have states People United states from germany italy or sovereign states who is sovereign currencies. Youre all and so on and just sticking to some very strong commitments some very strong borders we cannot accept to have the new currency having exactly the same kind of poor without the same kind of war without disinclined of commitments and without the same kind of obligations and there is also a concern about Money Laundering there is a concern about the funding of terrorism we have spain for many years before address things and being able to fix that issue of Money Laundering and of funding of tourism. On tuesday u. S. Senators questioned the facebook representative over the proposed currency david marcus told the Senate Banking committee the company would not control libra but one senator said facebook is delusional to think people would trust it with their money facebook is burned down the house over and over in every arson a learning experience lo
The moment states that 5 members of the Sovereign Council will come from the Transition Military Council and 5 members will be coming from the forces of freedom and change with the 11th member to be agreed upon by both sides it also states that the majority of the executive council will be decided on by the forces of freedom and change but what the roles of these 2 councils and the Legislative Assembly which will be formed 3 months after the transitional period is starting 3 months after the transition period starts is something that is yet to be discussed in you envoy and the Transition Military Council say that that is something that they will wrap up on friday and that the final deal is signed on friday afternoon but until a bad deal is signed this deal is a landmark there still remains a lot to be talked about a lot of issues to be discussed between the 2 sides for sudans transition to be complete. Now the World Health Organization is meeting in geneva to decide if in the bowl outb
A political analyst and professor of Public Policy at George Mason University and he says even though the votes last may symbolic it is still significant. Its a really rather unprecedented vote to condemn the president by a house of congress you dont see that very often and itll make it much more difficult in the future for the president to seek cooperation from congress particularly any kind of collaboration with democrats who are the ones who are sponsoring. The resolution some republicans soon again but basically what were seeing is a poisonous party divide made worse by this episode every move he makes as president is to galvanize his base he governs on behalf of his base hes a very unusual president most president s seek to unite the country to create consensus this president governs by dividing he deliberately exploits the division of the country that was there long before he took office its been building for 50 years he sees it as an opportunity and rally at rallies his base in