Verification over several decades and the views i will be presenting are my own and not intended to represent views of those ive been associated with such as the department of defense and the Nuclear Treaty monitoring and verification. My statement draws in part on those experiences and on the Defense Science Board Task force report as well as the work of a nongovernmental task force on verification requirements for Nuclear Agreement with iran. Neither of the two task forces makes a judgment as to whether compliance with any particular Nuclear Agreement is ver fibl. Indeed, we do not yet know the details of the monitoring provisions that will emerge in the iranian agreement now under association or in such an agreement will be concluded. The Defense Science Board Task force report underscores that monitoring Nuclear Programs is very challenging. And that the technical capabilities to do so are limited. But the report suggests a number of steps that can be taken to make monitoring more
It doesnt have to be this way. But it will be this way if russia continues down this provocative path. In my conversation yesterday with foreign minister lavrov, we agreed to meet soon in europe. Next week. With ukraine, and our european partners, to discuss deescalation deescalation, demobilization, inclusivity, support for elections, and constitutional reform. And it is not in our judgment a small matter that russia has agreed to sit in this fourparty status with ukraine at the table in an effort to try to forge the road ahead. Between now and then we have made it clear that russia needs to take concrete steps to disavow separatist actions in eastern ukraine. Pull back its forces outside the country which they say they have begun to do with the movement of one battalion and demonstrate that they are prepared to come to these discussions to do what is necessary to deescalate. So russia has a choice. To work with the International Community to help build an independent ukraine that cou
Kind of breakdown from you. I would like to request well, one of the things that i learned from my department of defense experience is clear guidance in is indispensable. You dont issue clear guidance to the field and the how it is implemented is not going to look at all like what you intended. D. O. D. , whatever they issue new guidance, they always socialize, train to it the field and down the chain of command and so i spent a lot of time talking to our work force about how to better implement policy changes that are issued in washington, out of associate how to verbalize them and im determined to do a better job in that regard. Good. My understanding is that under the programs, some 500,000 young people have come forward to participate. They are now many of them are now in the renewal process. I believe. Because it has to be renewed every two years. I understand that the department, your department, is suggesting that applicants apply for renewal up to four months before the expirat
Help us close the achievement gap. I can tell you from being in the trenches and talking and seeing enough data so far to tell you, i guarantee you that will be the sixth one. About to beand its proven. I will give you an example. Project done in North Carolina in the 1970s. They did quality early child education. Aen done well, it inoculates child for three years. In this one, they went into the home every two weeks and taught the parents how to do homework with the kids. Those kids when tracked all the way through high school were graduating at much higher rates, going to college at much higher rates. Much less dropout rates. The home environment had changed. It had been changed. They were inoculated for the rest of their lives. Data . Ave those pieces of i just dont have enough. I know there will be enough data. Only good can come from involving them. Can i mandated for the schools . No. This goes under the premise of if the home environment does not change, can you close the achiev
Free the palestinians. Expect to be ready for a state in two years. That was meant to say, if we are successful and somehow become ready, in the sense of being able to govern ourselves effectively and handle obligations responsibly and seen this way by the International Community and, therefore, effectively answering the questions that were really put forward in 2001 and 2002 and 2003 and all that. If we were able to do this and reduce this whole issue to occupation period, not occupation but the idea was that this was going to be Strong Enough to bring about the transformation necessary to settle the solution. What the problem wasbility inspiring ourselves to get ready for statehood in three years and tell the people beforehand. The idea was not to try to say, we took a test and passed it without announcement. But to preannounce the. That was an important part pof it. To go out and say and this is what we did in august of 2009, two years we expect to be rae t ready for statehood. We a