This 4 was just hours after saudi arabia offered to pause to allow for humanitarian aid. Now the offer was welcomed by the u. S. Secretary of state who has been in the saudi capitol having talked with saudi leaders as well as with yemens president late on when, the the ambassador the the United Nations asked the International Community to send land forces urgently into yemen to fight the houthis. Which is still raging in the southern port city, many people still trapped there. Lets see if the correspondent who is in saudi arabia. There is the southern yemen city of adan after weeks of air strikes and fighting. A scene of chaos. Thousands have lost their lively load. But there may be an opportunity for a break in the violence. Today we particularly welcome a new saudi initiative. To try to bring about a peaceful resolution, through the announcement of their intent to establish a full five day renewable cease fire and humanitarian pause. No bombing no shooting, no movement or repositioni
The next challenge into the same trouble that we were just, or we are coming out of. And that is the important. Iraq does not and should not take this task alone. I do not believe that we do have an iraq in the expertise to do this. Iraqis as a government, as a Political Class need to be humble a little bit and look at what other countries have done the postconflict situations, learn from their own history and the history of others come and seek as much expertise rather than invent the wheel or get the task to again similar to the system of politics in iraq and end up not doing the job right and having to redo it time and again. So that is the other issue. And the third is reconciliation. And the last to reconstruction and reconciliation should be hand in hand. They dont have to be one after the other because i said already it is to come first before anything else. What is reconciliation . A couple of days ago Daniel Serwer and myself on the conference and it was a talk about the confl
Because im on the fence as to whether theres doctrinally an issue. There might be an issue. So, i think thats why. I think a ban is necessary for normative reasons. However, however, the examples we give as to the harm that derives from bulk collection, especially 215 bulk collection, is a result of the use of the data. Again, i think thats i distinguish collection and use. Can we saw recently the Obama Administration had considered ending bulk collection before the snowden revelations. Would a ban on bulk collection harm Law Enforcement and be a bad idea . Why arent you answering that one . Yeah, why . Why arent you . Really subtle moderation here. Look im not sure those accounts about how it was considered whether or not to end the bulk metaData Collection under 215. Im not surprised it was being considered. I think those programs should always be subject to a cause benefit analysis. But ill be interested to hear the followon reports as people reaction to that initial report about ho
Thank you for coming this morning on such short notice. We have such a distinguished group of panelists will follow these matters. This morning i am honored to be your moderator. John i joined the National Council on u. S. Arab relations after spending 35 years in the arabian gulf in the energy field. I am well aware of the importance of the iran Nuclear Deals for the people of the regions. I would like to thank cspan for covering this event live today and for covering our briefing last thursday on yemen, held in this room. The ambassador spoke at the conclusion of that session. Coverage of last weeks briefing is available on our website. A quick word about the National Council on u. S. Arab relations. Established 33 years ago as a nonprofit organization. The guiding vision is one of education and seeks to educate about the islamic world and place relations between our allies and partners across the region on his firm a foundation as possible and continues to expand the relationship th
United States Senate and u. S. Allies. The plan would be to have a period of iranian compliance and then ask congress to enact sanctions relief under the agreements and i will stop there. Thank you. [applause] imad harb i was asked to speak about iran and lebanon and syria where iran has a lot of influence. The negotiations themselves, as far as we know did not discuss anything outside the negotiations of the Nuclear Program. So there are supposedly no specific connection between irans other issues in this Foreign Policy and the region, or the world for that matter. Everybody knows the Nuclear Program is only a part of iranian Foreign Policy, it is also the negotiations of a Nuclear Program, but no matter how much we denied, there is a connection to iranian influence in other places and that specific negotiation had its impact on other things. Basically, two perspectives, that iran actually used its role in lebanon and syria to try to get a better deal on the Nuclear Program. The other