Organizations on legislation recently passed in the senate which is expected to be taken up in the house. This is 90 minutes. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] good afternoon, everyone. The committee will come to order. I am pleased to have this opportunity today to hear directly from organizations that work with, represent or support millions of veterans every day. This committee has gatheredli today to hear from these organizations their firsthand perspective and reasons they support our comprehensive Suicide Prevention legislation, s. 785, the commander John Scott Hannon Veterans Mental Health care improvement act. This is a legislation that is been before this committee and before the senate, and i wanted to give the opportunity to those Veterans Service organizations and others the ability to tell us any thoughts that in regard to this legislation as we negotiate with the house in its p
Is it hyphenated . Just the last time. Thank you. President sanchez can you pronounce your first name. I dont want to mess it up. Katia. Okay, thank you, welcome. Youre going to have a report in a minute or so. Welcome, everybody, to our meeting. I really am happy to be here with everybody. Its good to see so many people out there. We have hundreds of folks. Its going to grow probably. In these times of pandemic, i think its important, we would agree, to offer compassion, kindness and a gentle spirit as we all move through this ordeal together. That were all in it together and we obviously must Work Together to make this during these times. I count on that. Again, welcome, thank you for being here. Section b is opening items. We need approval of the Board Meeting. And two is superintendents report, dr. Matthews. Superintendent matthews good afternoon, everyone. Im glad to see so many you out there and welcome to our new Student Board members. Excited youre on board. So my report for th
Council, this is 30 minutes. It is wonderful to have this opportunity it is wonderful to have this opportunity at the time of the alliance is facing a large array of challenges from china to cyberattacks and Climate Change and the pandemic what we need to make today is ensure there will be relevant and effective over the coming decade. And then to begin from the secretaryg general. Working with the alliance for securing democracy will moderate a conversation with the secretarygeneral. At a time when we are looking for leadership where the secretary general is my pleasure to welcome the secretarygeneral to the stage. Mr. Secretarygeneral over to you. Good afternoon from brussels and good morning and welcome to all of those on the line. Asking me to make the Strong Alliance even stronger. To make sure we are affected and then to tackle the challenge challenges, and it is our opportunity where we see the reliance ten years from now and how that will continue in a more uncertain world. I a
From the secretarygeneral. Then, my wonderful colleague in who works with, the alliance for securing democracy, will moderate a conversation with the secretarygeneral. She will start with fred and me and then take questions from you. Fred will close us out. Now a word about the secretarygeneral of nato. At a time when citizens in nato countries are looking for leadership, they need look no further than nato headquarters. Where secretarygeneral stoltenberg is providing strong principles and decisive leadership. It is my sincere pleasure to stoltenberg, secretarygeneral, to the stage. Mr. Secretarygeneral, over to you. Sec. Gen. Stoltenberg that afternoon from brussels. To karen anding fred in washington and welcome to all who are following us online. Last december nato leaders asked me to make our Strong Alliance even stronger. By making sure we are as effective politically as we are militarily and that we remain ready today to tackle the challenges of tomorrow. This is an opportunity t
For our friends at the Marshall Fund, it is a great pleasure to host the nato secretarygeneral stoltenberg for his reflections on the future. Im fred kemp, president and ceo of the health line here with my colleague. Welcome to this very special edition of the Atlantic Councils front page, the premier ideas platform for global leaders. Weve been hearing from extraordinary leaders on this platform, including the imf managing director, the colombian president , and later this week, aftghan president. The Marshall Funds. United states and with nato Public Diplomacy to bring you a conversation with the secretarygeneral for nato for the alliances reflection process, evaluating how to strengthen nato in an increasingly competitive world. Were having this conversation as the world confronts the worst pandemic in a century and the deepest economic downturn since the Great Depression and here in the United States, the most widespread antiracist protest in 50 years. We have at the Atlantic Counc