Worried about how title ii impacts their broad or services, not broader services, not any potential violations of Net Neutrality which, by and large with a few exceptions, theyve lived under for the past decade. So its really important that we have that discussion about broader broadband policy and that we have it soon. Lets not get rid of protections in order to have it. Host Christopher Lewis walter mccormick, Julian Hattem is with the hill newspaper. Cspan, created by americas Cable Companies 35 years ago and brought to you as a Public Service by your local cable or satellite provider. Today the United States institute of peace and the Woodrow Wilson center hold a discussion on the politics of a nuclear deal with iran. Participants include former congressman jim slatly of kansas and Howard Berman of california former National Security adviser stephen hadley, and a former member of irans parliament. Live coverage begins at 9 30 a. M. Eastern here on cspan2. U. N. Secretary general ba
Npcdinner. Remember the public attends our dinner. Applause of evidence is not evidence of a lack of journalistic objectivity. After our grests speech we will have a question and answer period. I will ask as many questions as time permits. Our head table includes guests of our speaker and also working journalists who are club members. Let me introduce them to you now. I ask each foreign stand briefly as names are announced. From the audiences right, baha altawil, correspondent for egypts on tv network. Kathy bank a nebraska of the a member of the npc Journalism Institute board. Rachel oswald, writer for roll call. Wuhan bo, undersecretary ed hes been on the job since 2007. Hes the eighth person to hold this pest. During bans tenure, the u. N. Has responded to the crisis in darfur, the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, the effects of global warming, and terrorism. Ban also faces challenges such as water shortages worldwide. The Ebola Outbreak in western africa and civil conf
Close by. Many other academic analysts and members of the press corps. So id like to hold it open now to the floor. Ill try to take, if its okay with you, a couple of questions at a time. Weve got exactly half an hour. So again, if people could keep those short and well start with this gentleman here at the front, if you could wait until a microphone comes to you. Please identify yourself and then the lady behind you. Im michael gordon, new york times. Sir, the United States has sent a dozen f16s and several hundred Service Personnel to poland as a reassurance mission. But if nato is trying to send a message of resolve, shouldnt the reassurance mission be a natoled effort involving multiple countries on land, sea, and air, in poland, the Baltic States and the black sea. And also, ukraine has been seeking support for its military. Shouldnt nato consider providing intelligence support, logistical support, and advisers to help strengthen the Ukrainian Military and deter possible russian m
Pentagons time schedule for achieving certain Missile Defense capabilities in romania and poland against medium missiles could be too optimistic. What are your thoughts on that conclusion . Thanks. And the gentleman who originally had the microphone. As the United States and the European Union are negotiating the transatlantic trade and Investment Partnership, the socalled economic nato, dont you think that its essential that we have a transatlantic conversation when it comes to security, to a greater extent that the eu has delivered in december, and then secondly, with the departure of the last u. S. Tank in april from europe and the end of the isef mission in afghanistan, dont you think that its essential that nato reexamines its role in the 21st century . Dont you think that the alliance maybe needs to reinvent itself as it did after the end of the cold war . Thank you very much. Thank you. Yep. Interesting questions. First, on our nuclear policy. We adopted a new strategic concept
Between the two sides most valuable. And the gentleman here at the aisle . Just one second. Next time around. Thank you. This year marks and first of all, congratulations on your Hillary Clinton award this morning. Fiona mentioned a few anniversaries, but this marks the 100th anniversary of world war i. You welcomed a delegation from bosnia i think a couple of days ago and macedonias Prime Minister recently. What kind of message will the upcoming summit send on enlargement . Will there be a breakthrough on the macedoniagreece dispute in europe opinion and perhaps a visit to the region, if enlargement is not deliverable at the uk summit, will you visit all the four country sths because i think we learned the mistakes of bucharest with georgia and ukraine. Luckily nothing of that sort has happened on macedonia. But hopefully nothing does happen. So thank you. Thank you. First, on the nato russiacouncil. Actually, i think we struck the right balance in what we have done so far. Because yo