The committee will come to order. Without objection, all members will have five days to submit statement, extraneous material for the record subject to the limitation and the rules. Ambassador wells, miss friedman, welcome. Welcome to members of the public and the press, as well. We are glad to have our friends from cspan with us today, as well. We meet this morning so the committee can conduct oversight of the Trump Administrations policy towards afghanistan and ill now recognize myself for an Opening Statement. For months weve been attempting to get some visibility into the ongoing peace negotiations without success. We all want peace. We all want the fighting in afg to end, but Congress Needs to know when a potential deal looks like, members on both side need to have the chance to ask questions and offer views. In the last few weeks weve seen the afghan reconciliation proseses is go off the rails in a spectacular fashion. We learn trade president ial tweet that the administration wa
[inaudible conversation] were going to get underway. I am richard and my day job at managing partner of an associates. I am also a member of the board of the center for the national interest. Both of these capacities and having spent time at both think tanks, i can tell you quite sincerely the lunches at the center for the National Interests are far better than the atlantic council. [laughter] to top off this excellent lunch, we have a great dessert and that is investor john who at its us today. To talk about the future of ukraine and ukraine and russia relations, we really couldnt have a better speaker. To address this issue. John at not only served as the Us Ambassador to ukraine, but as followed ukraine related issue for many years in his current capacity running his program, European Program at the atlantic council. Having a real indepth understanding or lets call it Eastern European and Central Asian affairs having not only served in ukraine but also in pakistan if im not mistaken
The lunch epicenter for the National Interests, better than the atlantic council. To top off the excellent lunch we have a great dessert, ambassador john herbst is with us today. The future of ukraine, Ukraine Russia relations. We couldnt have a better speaker to address this issue. John has not only served as the Us Ambassador to ukraine but followed ukraine, the ukraine related issue for many years in his current capacity, running his European Program at the Atlanta Council and having a real in depth understanding for, lets call it eastern priority and Central Asian affairs not only served in ukraine but is pakistan if i am not mistaken but he told me one of his first jobs after leaving the state department was running a program called dealing with complex problems at the National Defense the state department trains you for dealing with complex problems. Without further a do im going to ask john to begin. As traditionally the case, this is being filmed by cspan, we are not following
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