To summit that will take place in washington, d. C. Over the summer. Good morning, everyone. On behalf of the Atlantic Council, its my pleasure to welcome you to todays event, nato at 75, an alliance for a better world. 75 years ago today, 12 countries came together to sign the washington treaty. Marking the very beginning of what would become the worlds most powerful and successful military alliance. In 1949, nato was founded to provide collective security and defense and prevent the outbreak of yet another world war. In the 75 years that have followed, nato has welcomed 20 additional allies, all committed to safeguarding Democratic Values and to promoting peace and stability in the euro Atlantic Region and beyond. This anniversary is unquestionably a moment to take stock and celebrate the accomplishments of the most successful alliance in history. These celebrations are taking place against a backdrop of tremendous uncertainty. War is raging in europe and the Global Security environm
The conditions are such that that is a legitimate concern. In the negotiation of the geneva statement, the u. S. , the e. U. , and the ukrainians all urged the inclusion of a sentence that referred to the may 25 elections and the need that they be carried out in an orderly and transparent way. The russians refused to include that in the text of the statementle. The disruptions were already taking place in the ukraine that are bound to complicated the election efforts and we believe that those that the instability there is being fomented by the russians. Thank you, mr. Hartley, ms. Friedt. The chair will yield to the gentleman from new york, mr. Meeks, for five minutes. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Let me, you know, there was a beginning where we thought that wed be entering a new world, we would be able to have with the new stark treaty, not abolishing ewe near Nuclear Weapons altogether, we were moving in the right direction the senate ratified the treaty and the Russian Federation ratifi
The presiding officer are there any senators wishing to vote or wishing to change their vote . If not, the ayes are 57, the nays are 40. And the motion is agreed to. The clerk will report the motion to invoke cloture. The clerk cloture motion. We, the undersigned senators, in accordance with the provisions of rule 22 of the standing rules of the senate, hereby move to bring to a close the debate on the nomination of daniel d. Crabtree of kansas to be United States district judge for the district of kansas. Signed by 17 senators. The presiding officer by unanimous consent, the mandatory quorum call has been waived. The question is is it the sense of the senate that debate on the nomination of daniel d. Crabtree of kansas to be the United States district judge for the district of kansas, shall be brought to a close . The yeas and nays are mandatory under the rule. The clerk will call the roll. Vote vote the presiding officer are there any senators wishing to vote or wishing to change the
The South African liter calls on the g 20 group to accept more countries from the continent into the rank of africans push for a bigger role in politics the sunday pm here in the russian capital and mister garcia, international with the very latest world news update. Welcome to you. Now the polish president has made a u turn on the missile crisis off the initially blaming moscow. President , dude on now says he has no evidence that the missile, which fell in the eastern poland, killing 2 locals, was launched by the russian military. Hes also admitted that ukraines at the fences were likely responsible for the incident. Most likely, it was a russian made as 300 missile at the moment. We have no evidence that it was a missile fired by the russian side. Much indicates that it was an air defense missile, which unfortunately fell on the territory of poland. Now as chief is also doubled down on the fact that has nothing to implicate russia in the incident, which was apparently caused by a Uk
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