Qatar recently spoke about the middle east and other Foreign Policy challenges, including the economic boycott against qatar, implemented by several countries in the region back in june. The center for the National Interest hosted the event last week. Welcome to the center for the National Interest. We have a very special guest today. The minister of Foreign Affairs and vice Prime Minister of the state of qatar. His excellency a very young man. A very impressive career. And already was in his position for more than a year. And somewhat familiar with washington. I assume washington is becoming somewhat familiar to you. I have to say that however, a little difficult to understand his region. Things are constantly happened. In addition to qatar, theres a small state called saudi arabia and theres another small state called iran. They interact in a whole variety of places and theres russia and of course the United States. Its a very important and very complex region. And we count on you, m
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
I know called to order for purposes of todays hearing titled preventing Sexual Harassment in the congressional workplace, examining reforms and a crack Congressional Accountability Act. The record will remain open for five legislative days to include materials. Record is present we will proceed i ask for unanimous consent the committee on ethics chairwoman brooks, et never present tuesday appointed to sit and question the Witnesses Today. Without objection so ordered hour by to think theo witnesses for taking time of a busy schedules to be here. We are appreciative of that. First and foremost, let me reiterate there is no place for Sexual Harassment in our society especially in congress. Period. And one case of Sexual Harassment is one case to many. The speaker of the house, paul ryan task of this committee with extensive review and we take that responsibility very seriously to hold ourselves as a higher standard that we are worthy of the trust by the constituents since the last hearin
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
Political will to apply this tool, and i think its a very valid and useful tool for toolkit in the United States, and so we have examples for tunisia and egypt that well talk about, so well talk a little bit about the history of what are these things, how they come about, what can we learn from the past, how are some more recent ones operating, and finally, the most important thing is about the future because i think in some ways this was certainly ahead of its time and theres a lot of learning from the past, but i think there are plenty of countries where we ought to be applying this in new additional countries, but also may be in different ways given the fact that the world is changed from 25 years ago. The instrument needs to adapt the time. We have a very experienced group of panelists. Im excited to have all the smart folks on the panel. I wont go into detailed bios for each of them but i will ask my friend whos the executive director of European Cooperative for Rural Development