[inaudible conversations] are we ready to go? great. welcome to today s launch of the council on foreign relations and the pendant task force report north america time for a new focus to rid the co-chairs hear robert zoellick of course, somebody who i think last time i interviewed you we were both in sudan. so thank you very much. shannon o neil, director and co-chair, david petraeus i think last summer i into the jew we were in iraq. so it s good to be in a slightly more tame environment. i want to get right to the question of why now, why this? reading newspapers, the attention, the focus of this administration clearly on foreign policy, current prices the in the middle of these, please to the idea of a pivot to asia and effectively what you re talking about in the task force report is a pivot to north america. so why? it s time for a new focus. the reason is when you come back to it, our number one and two trading partners are our two neighbors, not other countries or
questions. thank you very much. [ applause ]. director general amano, thank you very much for your presentation. i have a few questions to pose to you. i m sure our audience has many that it would like to pose to you. i know iran is going to be a big focus of attention, so therefore isle start off talking about the agency and its role. i particularly want to raise the concern that i and many others have about the growing politicization surround iing th board of governors and its discussions about the agency s role. i remember when i yutzed to attend board of governors meetings, general conferences, usually there was a consensus among board members on any particular topic. it was very rare there was voting and a divided membership. now it s almost the norm on lots of issues for there to be voting and differences. you mention the the state level concept or state level approach. i think this is a very innova innovative approach to safeguarding. i think it would enhance the a
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