Hearing for state Department Nominees Including ambassador at large for Global Health security and diplomacy as well as u. S. Ambassadors. This is about an hour 20 minutes the Senate Foreign Relations Committee will come to order. Our hearing today is to hear from five of the President Bidens nominees in dealing with career positions and ambassadorships. Its wonderful to have you all here. We thank you all for being here. Thank you do senator ricketts for being here to lead the republican side of this hearing. Its not always easy to find members that have or willing to adjust their schedules in order to accommodate these hearings, and i think senator ricketts for always being available to this committee to carry out our important work. I want to add some opening comments and senator ricketts wont opening comments but first i want to recognize senator reed and allowed to make an introduction and thank him for being here in the committee. We sometimes have a friendly rivalry between Arme
[inaudible conversations] the Senate Foreign Relations Committee will come to order. Our hearing today is to hear from five of the President Bidens nominees in dealing with career positions and ambassadorships. Its wonderful to have you all here. We thank you all for being here. Thank you do senator ricketts for being here to lead the republican side of this hearing. Its not always easy to find members that have or willing to adjust their schedules in order to accommodate these hearings, and i think senator ricketts for always being available to this committee to carry out our important work. I want to add some opening comments and senator ricketts wont opening comments but first i want to recognize senator reed and allowed to make an introduction and thank him for being here in the committee. We sometimes have a friendly rivalry between Armed Services and Foreign Relations but sense of National Defense authorization bill will be up soon and im going to need his help, he goes first. [l
I would like to tell you an anecdote while im looking at the mountains, its related to the first time i traveled to lebanon to meet my uncle. Obviously, as you know, the nature is really awesome in argentina, there are a lot of mountains, seas and snow, so all of them are beautiful, mountains are. Large in argentina, for example, the andian mountains that are limited in chile and are the longest in continent. The andian mountains are really beautiful. When i traveled to lebanon to see my uncle, i went to village and i saw very small mountain, the one that we could not even call a mountain. I was sitting with my uncle when he suddenly looked at that small mountain, which was not really a mountain, then he looked at me saying, this poor person comes from argentina and has not seen such a. Mountain, he asked me, do you have such a mountain in argentina . Well, these are the things that happen. I am suhal assad. I came to mashad in the Islamic Republic of iran to participate in the millenn
And the presence of scientists from 40 countries of the world at the closing ceremony of the fifth recognition period of 2006 scientific files in the specialized areas of the award from 100 countries done. The winners of this scientific event were introduced in two sections. Dr. Omid farukhzad. In the section of muslim scientists, the first prize was given to the innovative scientist of polymeric nanoparticles in the field of science, biotechnology, and medicine. We used nanotechnology for medical purposes, especially various nanoparticles for the treatment of cancer, helping humanity in every country , for every religion, professor ahmed hassan, an egyptian scientist the effect of exploring Software Repositories in the field of science and technology was the second choice of the islamic nobel. In the section of scientists living in islamic countries, prof. Samia khoury from malaysia presented new treatment approaches ms disease and identification of pathogenic agents won the world pri
You had learned this hour president strongly condemns sacrilage of the holy quran in some countries as insult to humanity, freedom and spiritual values. Lebanons hezbollah chief says any normalization of tasks with israel is tantamon to abandoning palestine and playing into the enemys hands. The Israeli Regime carries out another air strike on syria targeting military. Musications in the vicinity of the eastern city of day also, thank you for joining us, now today stop story, the iranian president has once again strongly condemned the recent designation of the holy quran in some euro. Islam is a religion of freedom and equality. The holy quran is also a book of mercy, wisdom and divine words insulting the holy quran as the precious miracle of the Prophet Muhammad is insult to humanity, freedom, values and spirituality. The Islamic Republic of iran strongly condemns such hateful and spightful acts that occur in some parts of the world with the aim of spreading islamophobia. These acts a