Well, just today the country is celebrating an important date 10 years ago, crimea and sevastopol were reunited with russia. The president signed a historical document. Before this, almost 97 of voters on the peninsula voted for the return in a referendum. A large festive procession dedicated to the crimean spring took place today at vdnkh. The action was called crimea sevastopol russia forever. Participants walked from the main entrance to pavilion 75. Glad these are our people. They found peace, they found freedom, happiness to them, good luck, such emotions are off the charts, right, we, when the referendum was held in 1914, we cried, we hugged each other friend, firstly, i am a crimean, of course , this is super important for me, i lived in crimea for 19 years, and they still continue to come there, my parents live there, so for us this is a national holiday, one might say, a family holiday, and for all crimeans, this is simply the best day of the year, crimea, sevastopol, russia.
Information. Well, this is indeed very important part of the negotiations because that da flows across the atlantic every second, and we continue to do so. So its important we facilitate trading data and data flows in companies. This is the future in many ways and we will be discussing this in the ttip negotiations as well. When it becomes difficult is when we talk about personal data and how it is used, and thats we have so far that the Data Protection regime of europe is nose going to be negotiated with ttip. Were operating our rules. We also have the safe harbor, as i understand this is about to be very soon and i welcome that. And we are also negotiating that my colleague who is responsible for justice and the issue of an umbrella agreement between the u. S. And eu. Why that is not part of ttip it would be very beneficial to set the standard and the umbrella conditions there. So we will find a way to facilitate and is treated in accordance with u. S. The president has been very act
Wait and see how that plays out. I take some comfort that the senate has established a role for itself that whatever agreement is reached will have to be submitted to the congress for approval as a result of the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee committee, bob corker. So there is a huge amount of effort that has gone into this. But i think i reserve judgment right now if this is a good deal or not. After the cold war we have seen crimea day think those are necessary or what framework is necessary . With the border changes and the framework. I think that is a key and of forms. That it would be very risky. With the invasion of crimea so with the possibility of quarter changes there or elsewhere. So it was drawn with days certain degree of colonialism. But once youre on the uh of path youre on the slippery slope. It is that only the political dangers but a threat to the whole concept. This the best system and to come up with yet. As long as we dont have an adequate substi
Countries and democratic. Very often we came to the relationship with those countries for security reasons. Like germany, germany, like south korea, but we saw the wisdom of helping them develop democratic countries that respect human rights. I think where things get a little bit complicated, its in the tactics the daytoday tactics of our Foreign Policy where you we will sometimes find some pretty serious disagreements that only the state department but around this town and maybe our country which is for example what you do about Human Rights Violations you have extremely significant interests purchase, the largest oilproducing country in the world for the country of china which is about to become possibly the largest economy in the world. You have to find a balance as to how you make clear that you support human rights in those countries but at the same time we are sometimes limited by the real possibilities as defined by two things that doesnt necessarily mean that a democratic a dem
But perhaps even more important is that i think we have an obligation to do that. I dont think we can shirk our responsibilities have that kind of strength of economic and military and having the kind of history and representing the kind of values that we do is an obligation on our part to continue to strive to play a leadership role in world affairs. Can we do it alone . No. Absolutely not. Its we dont have that power commensurate to what we talked about. But we should not want to. The various aspects, there is no possible way you will be able to deal with them except in partnership with other countries. We are entering into an era of mutuality an era of interdependence and i think if he does to take this new era very seriously and crew responsibility. I am confident really that under the circumstances we face today and provided that we continue to keep perfecting our own society and work closely with her friends around the world that we can continue to play the kind of strong leaders