Around a ceasefire because you know the taliban are hesitant to declare a nationwide long term cease fire they have declared to cease fires in the past year or so previously the government also initiated a cease fire but this will be a major major Sticking Point and then for the government a major issue for them is sort of retaining this idea of the republic and making sure that their seats are secure because you know there are a lot of people within the government that the taliban and other groups and even people with an afghanistan you know might find suspect were talking about former communists about warlords about people who as young people put it parachuted in from Foreign Countries and dont necessarily understand the cultural and religious and lit and aspects of the country or the languages so these types of people are very afraid for their jobs so maintaining the republic is also very important for them so these are the kinds of things that will really and that could really sort
Illegally in the Eastern Mediterranean undermining stability in the region and affecting to Member States of the European Union greece and of course the other one is cyprus in whose exclusive Economic Zone turkey has been conducting drilling in seismic tests as well the question for the greeks now is whether turkey will agree to stop these activities in both greek and cypriots exclusive Economic Zones and agree without further action on the exploration front to sit downs talks which would take place on the basis of un maritime law and would disagree with its sign a statement to the effect that should those talks fail to achieve a file last real compromise between greece and turkey on maritime jurisdictions would turkey agree to settle this through our patrician at the International Coal at the hague the those are broadly speaking the things that greece is looking for in this initial round. Of contacts between the greek and turkish sides through the German Foreign minister the effort th
Up next testimony from dacts lien kraniger. She talks about her agencys role in protecting consumers during the pandemic. This hearing will come to order. This hearing is another remote video hearing. Ill go through quickly some of the standard reminders to remind everybody, once you start speaking, there will be a slight delay before your picture shows on the screen. To minimize background noise, please remember to click the mute button until it is your and if theres a technology issue, weve move on until it gets resolved. The fiveminute time still some senators say they dont seem to be able to find that. If you go to the righthand side of the screen and move your mouse, some options will show up. One of them is the grid view. If you click grid view, you will see a grid of everybody, and one of the things youll see is the clock. Ill try to gently remind people, because some senator have asked for the reminder because they cant see the clock. Again senator brown and i have agreed to go
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