That they developed more easily to their allies but they will be able to import from russia and china the technology they need for icbms or surface to air weapons and so forth. Ambassador burns. There is no question the iranians were trying to split the p5 in the last week of the negotiations with this proposal. Point one. There is no way we could have accepted this, so i was trying to dive through the details coming over here, if we can maintain the u. N. Weapons and embargoes for five to eight years, thats good for the United States. Hold on, five to eight years they in ten years they are going to have the capability for undetectable breakout, ten years plus under this agreement. Why would we want to agree to five years lifting and eight years for the russian transference of that capability . Why would the United States sign off on such an agreement ambassador . I am not here of course to represent the administration i am just a private citizen. This is a painful tradeoff and i would
Thats not their mission and thats not what we are paying for and we should stop paying for it. And i yield back to mr. Buck. The chair the chair would remind members that remarks during the debate may not engage in personalities towards the president including the repeating of remarks that were said elsewhere. That would be improper if spoken here by the members here in their own words. The gentleman from georgia is recognized. Mr. Lewis i yield one minute to thegentleman from kentucky, chairman of the state foreign operations committee. Mr. Rogers i rise in respectful disagreement with my colleagues who offer this amendment. The United States institute of peace works to help prevent, reduce and resolve violent conflicts abroad. The institute along side our military, our diplomats in the most conflict affected including iraq, afghanistan, tunisia, south sudan and ukraine. Eliminating the u. S. Institute of peace would hamper our efforts to stabilize these areas and to prevent further o
Washington journal. South america is our immediate neighborhood. For that reason, we have worked for a prosperous south america. We have worked for increasing the integration processes in latin america and the caribbean. Between loser ties and the pacific alliance. Countries make up a market of 470 Million People which accounts for more than 90 of latin american gdp. , is the constant continent where we wish to have increasing cooperation and increased partnerships for development. With europe, we have cultivated a longstanding friendship. There, we have worked to boost trade and investment. In asia and the pacific region, the most vibrant hub of the global economy, we have stepped up our relations with new partners and old ones. This has been our foreign policy. A truly universalist foreign policy. Form is thisersal General Assembly. We can benefit from the broadest and most pluralistic array here, we find the parameters that govern our respectful living together. Here, we shall becom
The hearing will come to order. I think committee is privileged to see our distinguished chairman joining us monopo. I thank him for his leadership on africa. So great to see you and thank you for your ongoing leadership and for yesterdays important briefing on nikki haley our ambassador to the United Nations and a major portion of that important briefing late in the afternoon was on the congo. So thank you, chairman royce. The democratic republic of congo was supposed to conduct elekdss one year ago this month to achieve the required transition of political power by december 19th. However, after years of stalling on making preparations for elections, the government failed to hold elections last year and relied on a provision that he could not step down until an election was held. Our Ranking Member have had had ongoing meetings with the roc officials, including high level people who have flown to washington and time and time again we haved a monished them stick to the schedule and ins
Thank you so much chairman, smith, Ranking Members for organizing this hearing and for inviting me. Im a researcher and officer of Political Science at columbia university. Over the past two years dip mats, politicians have focused mostly on the political crisis around general elections and on the struggle for power. Were so preoccupied with the up coming elections that were diverting our attention awae from the many other issues that are causing violence in congo. And were wasting the opportunity to tackle these issues. Based on peace building and several years of working in congo, i believe and i will show you in my state, theres a better way to help revise these conflicts. There are many other caws of violence beyond the electoral political issue. And by acknowledging democracy and peace do not always go together. The two most important measures congress can take are to increase the United States support to peace building and to put local actors in the drivers seat. The delay of Hol