Providing weaponry to it the ukrainian government. The Prime Ministers statement yesterday mentioned that some nato partners were providing weaponry to ukraine. And i saw a list of five or six countries. The uk was not amongst them. Why not . The uk doesnt believe that there can be a military solution to the conflict in the ukraine. Ukrainian forces mad s made significant gains over a period of weeks after the incident. But we saw over the last two weeks that russia will not allow those gains to stand and that they were merely met with a response of further illegal incursion by formed russian units. We dont want to encourage the ukrainians to believe that there can be a military solution to this conflict. Other nato partners, norway, the United States, france, i think, other countries clearly take a different view. This is a bilateral issue. This is not a nato decision. Its a bilateral decision. The uk takes the view that it would not be able to supply military equipment given our own
Out to the kurdish and sunni communities. The support for the restructuring and reconfiguration, that is to reflect the balance within the securityf the iraqi forces and i suspect a significant element of retraining and Technical Advice and support would be required. Issues that secretary hagel and secretary kerry will be discussing in the gulf this to provide, in the shortterm, some of that handson training. You are right that the political solution in the end, the way you worded it is it sounds like politics are a time [indiscernible] one can understand that to a certain extent. We actually get the iraqi army to address these extremists. Am i right . The announcement that the Iraqi Government has been formed to puthat we can expect together the package of support for the Iraqi Security forces. There is an implicit bargain westthat countries in the put packages of support for this government together, they will be doing it on the basis of the program that the government has publicly s
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Mr. Herger i thank my good friend. How wonderful it is to be able to sit here and listen to all these incredibly warm remarks from people who, like myself, know and love jay pearson. And theres a reason for that. Jay, youre one of the best of the best. And i think, its hard to believe that 26 years comes and goes so very, very quickly, but it was 26 years ago when i first came here. And of course, you come here and youre excited and you come here with a dream, because of our great country and preserve our constitution, but, boy, theres a lot to learn. Theres a lot of hall ways to figure out. There are a lot of procedures to try to figure out how to work our way through. And jay, you were always there. You were there to a guy like myself that i could come up to on the q t and asked jay, what could do next . What is this vote on . When is the procedures coming up next . And no matter what the question, jay pearson had the correct answer in a way that even a freshman or one that was new l