Committee will come to order. Today, we will hold the nomination hearing on a very important position. The honorable John J Sullivan to be the ambassador to the Russian Federation. First, we have two very distinguished colleagues of ours who wish to introduce our nominees. Torefore, i am going postpone my Opening Statement and i ask the Ranking Member to do likewise. Beh that, we are glad to joined by senators sullivan of alaska and cardin of maryland. Sullivan thank you very much, mr. Chairman, Ranking Member menendez. It is an honor to be in front of the committee again in front on behalf of my friend John Sullivan to support his nomination to be the United States ambassador to the Russian Federation. Despite what his last name would suggest, we are not related, although i regularly joke with senator markey who is also a proud sullivan member in his heritage that at some point in history, we will probably all related. I have supported secretary sullivans nomination before and can spe
Summit in a few days on thursday and it is a believe that of course this issue syria turkey will be one of the top talking points on the agenda so we might see something come out of that ok well leave it there for now natasha thank you for that update from paris well very highly for a senior syria syria analysts of the International Crisis group and she believes the violence could lead to a resurgence of ice or cells in the region. We have been conducting a lot of field where field trips in Eastern Syria where the situation has been deteriorating read it quickly because of the u. S. Flip flopping policies that has it back to the y. P. G. s ability and willingness to conduct counter isis campaigns in Eastern Syria of course the a lot of the field work was done during a time where it was unclear how long the us would be there but the us was present now given that free for all the race to take control over the area it is expected that well see a number of things including potential prison
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