Quest the business many will come to order, we will do a little business on the front end and hopefully take care of some business quickly, i know people have other meetings and then will move to the hearing itself. We think our witness for allowing us to do this and we are glad you are here. Items on theber of agenda today, we will move a number of nominations and Foreign Service officer list. Theill also take up multilateral act of 2017. I want to think sen. Coons his leadership and hard work on this bill, i want to recognize senators isaacson, rubio, young, kane and merkley whether contributions to this important Bipartisan Legislation before our committee. Establish all process for conducting objective reviews on how multilateral institutions carry out their missions with our funding. Authorities through this process, we will be able to evaluate their performance in an objective way. The review will look at performance, management, accountability and transparency. Transparency alig
Oneignpolicy decision America First. , please welcome exit of Councilmember Robert lapin. [applause] robert lapin good afternoon and welcome to my own personal favorite moment of each global for him, the annual great debate. This year, 2017, perhaps more than any other year in recent times i think we would all agree is defined by polarizing and oftentimes painful disagreements. From the boardroom and beyond, and of course the global forum is no exception. Ajc is not new to this reality. Every year we have featured passionate debate about the days most pressing issues in Global Affairs and overtime this segment, the great debate, has become an enduring fixture in our programming. As many of us will recall, last year steve israel faced off anor,st danson nor dan s over which Party Represented jewish interests. The year before we witnessed a Fiery Exchange between two wellknown israeli journalists. About the future of the two state solution, or the lack thereof. In years past we have host
Oneignpolicy decision America First. , please welcome exit of Councilmember Robert lapin. [applause] robert lapin good afternoon and welcome to my own personal favorite moment of each global for him, the annual great debate. This year, 2017, perhaps more than any other year in recent times i think we would all agree is defined by polarizing and oftentimes painful disagreements. From the boardroom and beyond, and of course the global forum is no exception. Ajc is not new to this reality. Every year we have featured passionate debate about the days most pressing issues in Global Affairs and overtime this segment, the great debate, has become an enduring fixture in our programming. As many of us will recall, last year steve israel faced off anor,st danson nor dan s over which Party Represented jewish interests. The year before we witnessed a Fiery Exchange between two wellknown israeli journalists. About the future of the two state solution, or the lack thereof. In years past we have host
Oneignpolicy decision America First. , please welcome exit of Councilmember Robert lapin. [applause] robert lapin good afternoon and welcome to my own personal favorite moment of each global for him, the annual great debate. This year, 2017, perhaps more than any other year in recent times i think we would all agree is defined by polarizing and oftentimes painful disagreements. From the boardroom and beyond, and of course the global forum is no exception. Ajc is not new to this reality. Every year we have featured passionate debate about the days most pressing issues in Global Affairs and overtime this segment, the great debate, has become an enduring fixture in our programming. As many of us will recall, last year steve israel faced off anor,st danson nor dan s over which Party Represented jewish interests. The year before we witnessed a Fiery Exchange between two wellknown israeli journalists. About the future of the two state solution, or the lack thereof. In years past we have host
Foreign ministers from several other nations. They intend to lay the foundation for mutual prosperity between africa and the United States. We are focused on building a more robust subsaharan trade relationship. The United States is working with our partners to deepen fre e, fair, and reciprocal trade. That is all that i have in togo. I will take your questions. Would you like to start . Understanding the importance of togo. Turnaround and say that to the folks in togo. They say it is important. I am not taking away from the importance of togo. I would like to estimates of the else. I will let you guess. North korea. Can you explain to the american public, and perhaps the rest of the world, exactly who they should be listening to in the u. S. Government when it comes to north korea and what the United States policy and posture is . The United States is on the same page, whether it is the white house, the state department, or the department of defense, we are speaking with one voice. Th