[background noises] good morning. To the Wilson Center here in washington d. C. We are established as a living memorial to the former president. That means we are congressionally chartered and fiercely nonpartisan. Director of the global europe there was an we are focused on europe is addressing global challenges we face today. Among those challenges is the threat to europe 30 architecture and organization for cooperation in europe is a fundamental part of the. Fiftyseven states to participate rotate the chairmanship of the organization annually. We are so delighted to walk in foreign minister to the Wilson Center tonight. A member of the problem since 2015 became minister for Foreign Affairs and trade in march of 2022 shortly after russias integration of ukraine. We are delighted to welcome ambassador and his wife. Thank you for making this possible. Also joining us today, true expert on the llc, a career diplomat and served as ambassador to informative. Ninetyeight 2001 and went on t
Center here in washington d. C. [background noises] [background noises] good morning. To the Wilson Center here in washington d. C. We are established as a living memorial to the former president. That means we are congressionally chartered and fiercely nonpartisan. Director of the global europe there was an we are focused on europe is addressing global challenges we face today. Among those challenges is the threat to europe 30 architecture and organization for cooperation in europe is a fundamental part of the. Fiftyseven states to participate rotate the chairmanship of the organization annually. We are so delighted to walk in foreign minister to the Wilson Center tonight. A member of the problem since 2015 became minister for Foreign Affairs and trade in march of 2022 shortly after russias integration of ukraine. We are delighted to welcome ambassador and his wife. Thank you for making this possible. Also joining us today, true expert on the llc, a career diplomat and served as ambas
Told us this last question or the last questions exactly this is corruption this is it at the highest levels, that is, on the one hand, it seems to be and is declaration, and on the other hand, how is it, and when no one can see it, it is, well , you know it. You know, god, i dont care, and nothing else. Which in which it seems that everyone is fighting corruption and when it is necessary to really fight corruption they say everything we passed the law but we closed it and we do not know now what is happening there with the deputy and the officials and so on and so on, is he stealing or not stealing excellent results work of the Verkhovna Rada at least in lets say yes to this industry well, now we will talk about elections, but first of all we will talk about elections not in ukraine, in russia there is such a procedure that for some reason russians call it local elections , but all conscious people in the world believe that this is not an election, but an appointment just this morning
I dont know or could the ukrainians be sharper in their statements, or again, it would be wrong to use them, they were very sharp there, there were a lot of appeals to the pope, greek catholics, come over to us , the Orthodox Church, what are you doing with that pope vergolius, as you can see here again we are now in this one war. Do we look fairly at other countries or h you know black and white who is for us and who is not for us, but the vatican never adheres to such a position and in various kinds of conflicts the vatican acted as a mediator or helped those uh, you know, the parties who did not had help, it is only important in our context here to understand that the vatican has a great influence regarding the exchange of prisoners in particular and if this is and this is almost the last window there to russia and in this way you know how to process this window now and give some ultimatums to the popes there i think pope, i think that it is extremely wrong, that is, in order to bet
a hollywood movie a critic of rwanda us president is arrested on terror charges. fellow venezuela s president has pardoning more than 100 of his political opponents ahead of parliamentary elections in december the government says this is a goodwill gesture but nicolas maduro his move is widely seen as an attempt to boost protests a patient in the vote the u.s. backed opposition leader has already said he s boycotting the elections because of concerns about cheating and human rights groups in venezuela say around $330.00 political prisoners are being held in the country let s get an update from our latin america editor assume and she s following developments from chile she s joining us from santiago hyla c.s.o. talk us through the timing and the significance of this decision. well everything about this has to do with the upcoming parliamentary elections which are due to be held in december as you mentioned opposition lawyer who was recognized as the interim president by over 5