Its about an hour 50 minutes. All right. So woere going to go ahead and get started. Thanks for joining us despite the rain. I know its difficult for many of you. For those of you who are not familiar with usip, were a nonpartisan independent institute that is dedicated to proposition that peace is possible. Were funded by congress and focused on preventing, mitigating, or resolving conflict. One of the global hotspots that has eluded peace for many years is the korean peninsula, and as you know, recently, President Trump and chairman kim met at the border between north and south korea, which has rekindled the prospects for returning back to negotiations and breaking the current diplomatic stalemate. And, in fact, the two leaders agreed to resume workinglevel negotiations in the coming weeks and try to make progress on denuclearization and peace. One of the sticking points has been north korea asking for sanctions relief. In order for the kim regime to survive and thrive, it needs to g
There is an active leadership for the white house correspondent. Particularly to the following issues so it is how we have the discussion and my idea i would ask our Prime Minister to put the peace building process in context on the specific issue but in a broader context in the same that would have been particularly after the summit and where we are now and with the upcoming last few weeks with what we can expect. [inaudible] and what you can expect for the upcoming several weeks time. On my left side hes reading heg from the Research Institute and is one of the more specialists in korea. Next to him she does with the Central Intelligence agency as an analyst and has been working quite extensively on korea, japan and the affairs. We have the professor here at the institute over the studies and now this one [inaudible] also been teaching you can expect in the discussion over the nuclear delegation some input from the European Union perspective. Currently a Senior Researcher at the poli
To the second discussion of the conference on the focus of the process to cover the denuclearization issue however there is an active leadership for the white house correspondent. Particularly to the following issues so it is how we have the discussion and my idea i would ask our Prime Minister to put the peace building process in context on the specific issue but in a broader context in the same that would have been particularly after the summit and where we are now and with the upcoming last few weeks with what we can expect. [inaudible] and what you can expect for the upcoming several weeks time. On my left side hes reading heg from the Research Institute and is one of the more specialists in korea. Next to him she does with the Central Intelligence agency as an analyst and has been working quite extensively on korea, japan and the affairs. We have the professor here at the institute over the studies and now this one [inaudible] also been teaching you can expect in the discussion ov
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[inaudible conversations] the Senate Foreign Relations Committee will come to order. We will do a little bit of the front end and hopefully will take care of the business quickly and i know people have other meanings and it will move to the hearing itself. We think our witnesses for allowing us to do this and were glad youre here. We have a number of items on the agenda today ander we will movea number of nominations and Foreign Service officer led and will also take up as 1928, multilateral act of 2017. I want to think senator coons for his leadership and hard work on this bill. L. I want to also recognize isaacson, rubio, young, cain and merkley for their contributions to thisct bipartisan important legislation for the committee. This bill will establish a process for conducting injected reviews on how well multilateral institutions carry out their missions with our funding, the authorities after review. Eleven years. Through this process we will be able to evaluate their performance