Please join me in thanking Charles Duelfer for his presentation today. [applause] [inaudible conversations] taking you now to new york city where the u. N. Security council is about to meet discuss and possibly vote on a resolution to set guidelines for removing chemical weapons from syria. It was announced yesterday that five the councils permanent members including the u. S. And russia had come to an agreement on a resolution and its now going to be brought before the other members of the Security Council for consideration. Reuters has a story on a resolution saying the major Sticking Point up to this point was russias opposition to enforce compliance with the threat of sanctions or military force. The article goes on to say the draft resolution makes the measure for removing weapons legally binding but provides no automatic enforcement of syria fails to comply. Instead the Security Council would have to draft a second resolution and we will take a look now inside the room. The Secur
Contain deadly blasts the nato Foreign Ministers have ordered and then to civilian and military cooperation with russia and say that having general staffs quickly devise ways to better protect Alliance Members serious matter does it signal the beginning of the end of two decades of the taunts and cooperation between the west and russia we get into a brussels correspondent for more on that. The lions ended this cooperation after russia moved troops to the Ukrainian Border following its incorporation of the crimean peninsula. It also said it was and advisors to begin training ukrainian forests mazda says it already begun pulling back troops from the Ukrainian Border. He knows hes no evidence of things. Instead the alliance has announced more assistance for ukraine and the end of cooperation with russia russias aggression against ukraine is the greatest threats. Add to your pc security in a generation. And the challenges our nation over your up for free and at peace. Some diplomats have g
Nato Foreign Ministers have ordered in and to civilian and military cooperation with russia and say they are having general staffs quickly devise ways to better protect alliance members. A serious move. Does this signal the end of two decades of cooperation between the u. S. And russia . The alliance into this cooperation after russia moved troops to the Ukrainian Border following its incorporation of the crimean peninsula. It also said it would send advisers to begin training ukrainian forces. Moscow says it has already begun pulling back troops from the Ukrainian Border, but nato sees no evidence of this. Instead, the alliance has announced more assistance for the ukraine and the end of cooperation with russia. Russias aggression against ukraine is the gravest threat to European Security in a generation, and it challenges our vision of europe whole, free, and at peace. Some diplomats have greeted the announcement with more optimism. Germanys foreign minister says it is a positive wor
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