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With Cardinal Turkson and cardinal who had been given the responsibility fof drafting. I was invited with a congressman from the philippines, mexico, south africa, to talk about the impacts of Climate Change, especially on those poorest countries in the world, and then what could be done in order to avoid the worst consequences. So it was a great honor for me to have been invited there, to help to shape the way they were thinking about the drafting of the incyclical. And they made it quite clear...

When you look at people who suffer torture and the sort of criteria the u. S. Uses, i think you already have a filter that is then deepened by the work of homeland security. So i think there is certainly the technique and the capacity. For syrians, i do understand it will take sometime to reach the numbers because i was told that the intel that the government has on the syrians is not as good as the one it had on the iraqis, et cetera. So there are genuine difficulties that will have to be overc...

Welcome back from lunch. I hope you enjoyed it. This is our all catholic panel of the day. Although we are all catholics last week when the pope was here. I never met so many catholics i didnt know were catholic. And so today im going to announce a papal miracle, but after a few minutes into the interview, both of them met the pope. So im going to get a little papal dust on me, i hope. And senator markey, which i never call you that, but i want to be formal. Ive known ed for about 29 years or so...

Negotiations is that each country will have to decide based on its own circumstances, its own capabilities, hopefully with as much salutary pressure as possible to do your best but that each country was going to have to make the decision about exactly what to do and how to do it. By the way, that goes for developed countries as well as developing. But even more important for developing countries who were trying to reassure that they can take on the fight for Climate Change without imperilling th...

And russias involvement. This is 20 minutes. [ speaking in a Foreign Language ] translator president of the 70th session of the General Assembly, i would like to congratulate you on your election as president of the General Assembly at its current session. And wish you success in leading the work of this session. I would also like to thank your predecessor for his presidency of the previous session. Ladies and gentlemen, i greet you from this Great International edifice that was originally estab...

For austria as well as the osce mission that you and i had a chance to talk about all are housed in vienna. So youre part of a Diplomatic Team that we have in a critically important place where major decisions are being made. Obviously the focus today is very much on the responsibilities and the implementation of the iran agreement by the iaea and as we talked privately and ill repeat now and as i pointed out to ambassador shannon, your openness with us is critically important and appreciate the...

Indicated that we are real into the 80s with probably the u. S. Amount i already told you. I dont think this is a huge problem. Senator udall . I yield my time to senator boxer. And mr. Chairman, here we are again. We have two different venues where we can argue about climate. [ laughter ] and always very pleasant. Were friends. But here we go. I continue to be perplexed by those who wish to obstruct action to reduce Carbon Pollution. Some are deniers, and weve been through there before. They sa...

Mediterranean. There are 7. 6 million internally displaced syrians suffering and into need of humanitarian assistance. More families are forced to send their children to work or marry off their young daughters. It is hard to comprehend the millions of refugees on lebanon, jordan, and turkey. The number of refugees in lebanon would be equivalent to the United States receiving 88 million new refugees. Thats a shocking number for that country. Turkey has already spent 6 billion in direct assistance...

In is reprehensible. Host what does the unit is the United States do . Theconflict has dominated report the Obama Administration. Needs to look at a little bit of history with respect to russia and the former soviet union and syria. Syria is the oldest client state in the middle east for the soviet union and now russia. The relationship goes back decades. Assads father cemented that relationship, so the prime military supplier of nuclear technology, supplier of training and equipping of the mili...

Resources, transportation, and you have seen a pretty dramatic move by the russians in terms of an Arctic Military command. There, newts icebreakers, and heated rhetoric. Weterms of u. S. Action, if were to remove our substantial arctic forces that the only what with that do in terms of additional russian reaction . I have expertise in a reasonable number of places, but i will defer to you on the arctic, im afraid. There is a bit of a strategic irony going on where some of us think that we are w...