Without the partnership of the Partnership Ambassador tony win the senior advisers csis and a friend and thank you very much tony for everything. I think we will have a very interesting and constructive conversation today and when i think about people who are qualified for their jobs and the right people at the right time i cant think of a better person than my friend from the afghanistanpakistan office at usaid. He summoned that have served in pakistan and afghanistan and served in some of the toughest places in the world. Craig is a friend, greg is a patriot and a qualified individual. Thank god he has raised his hand and agree to public service. Thank you very much. Come on up here. Give them a round of applause. [applause] its very nice to see many of my old friends here in the audience particularly i found from cairo was done a lot of the things that need to be done or might be done in afghanistan. Its great to see all of you and i look forward to meeting those of you that i have
Bev w weve been doing a series. We recently hosted Abdullah Abdullah about two weeks ago. Before that we couldnt have done this without tony we thing thanks very much, tony, for everything. I think were going to have an interesting and constructive conversation today. When i think about people who are qualified for their jobs or the right people at the right time, i cant think of a better person than my friend greg. Fz who served both in pakistan and afghanistan has served some of the toughest places in the World United States of america. Greg ess a friend, a a patriot, a really qualified individual. Thank god he has raised his hand and agreed to do Public Service again. Come on up here. Give him a round of applause. Its very nice to see many of my old friends here in the audience. Particular lilymy friend from cairo who did, who has done a lot of the things that need to be done or might be done in afghanistan so great to see all of you and i look forward to meeting those of you who i
Lets get started. Im dan runde. I hold the chair here at csis. Were going to have a conversation about the private sector in afghanistan. We have been doing a series of events on afghanistan over the last year. We recently hosted Abdullah Abdullah about two weeks ago. We couldnt have done this without the partnership of ambassador tony weng, the Senior Adviser here. Thank you for everything. I think were going to have an interesting and constructive conversation today. When i think about people who are qualified for their jobs or the right people at the right time, i cant think of a better person than my friend greg uygur. Fz who served both in pakistan and afghanistan has served some of the toughest places in the world for the United States of america. Greg is a friend. Greg is a patriot. Greg is a really qualified individual. Thank god that greg uygur has raised his hand and agreed to do Public Service again. Thank you very much. Come on up here. Give him a round of applause. [ appla
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On textile exports. Among the witnesses were former cia and Treasury Department officials. This hearing is just under two hours. Ask to declare a recess at any time. All members will have five days to submit extraneous material to the record. This hearing is entitled a legislate iive proposal to impe north koreas access to finance. I recognize myself for five minutes to give an opening statement. Todays hearing will examine draft legislation that would impose secoese secondary sancti foreign banks whose business supports the north korean regime whether directly or indirectly. By encompassing all of north koreas Economic Activity these measures would represent the toughest financial sanctions yet directed at pyongyang. This means going after coal as well as north korean laborers abroad. The bill would incentivize greater compliance with u. N. Sanctions by leveraging our vote at Financial Institutions where certain countries with lax enforcement go to seek assistance. This bill puts thos