The u. N. His bio is Available Online so let me be very brief in introducing him. Mark has more than 30 years of experience in both humanitarian and development context. Most of it spent with the u. K. s department for international development, which he eventually led as permanent secretary. He had led their humanitarian responses to such context as iraq, syria, nepal, several cases in africa, and haiti. He was also their directorgeneral for policy and corporate performance and finance. An extraordinary wealth of experience both in the context working where operations occur and on the infrastructure that helps to manage them. So were delighted to have sir mark with us today. Mark, there are innumerable humanitarian crises under way right now and at large scale. I know you Just Launched the u. N. s consolidated humanitarian appeal for the funding to support that effort. But today we want to focus on covid. And what the pandemic has meant for the crises that you helped to manage and for
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Of events, thousands of experts, new ideas and projects, delegates return home with their own idea of russia, not one imposed by propaganda at home. There are 193 countries in the united nations, and we have 190 of these 193 countries. There is, well, and this, of course, makes us all pleasantly proud participants that virtually the whole world had gathered , not a single delegation was able to be restored, despite attempts there and blackmail threats, by the way, the heads of the delegation told us that they received phone calls and email messages in instant messengers with threats, which means threats of terrorist attacks, threats there consequences, that is, there was an attempt to stop the delegations, they even offered money, which means. For some provocations at the festival, nothing came of it. Roman kostomarov, born twice, premiered in moscow documentary film about the famous athlete, a man of enormous fortitude. Twice born is not a figure of speech in this case. The olym
Including drones, missiles, armored vehicles, and communications systems. A Senate Homeland subcommittee set to examine which committees are producing the technology. And how russia has been using export controls to get it. The hearing of the permanent subcommittee on the investigation will come to order. Welcome everyone, particularly to the chair blumenthal the hearing of the permanent subcommittee on the investigation will come to order. Welcome everyone, particularly to the witnesses, some of you have come along way. And we greatly appreciate it. Just three days ago i sat across from president zelenskyy in ukraine along with me colleague senator hassan and three other members of the United States senate. As i sat across from him, what i saw was a steely determination to continue to fight, and that determination is shared by the ukraine people, overwhelmingly. President zelenskyy handed me a folder that i took from him then. It was the result of a conversation i had with him a week
The hearing of the permanent subcommittee on the investigation will come to order. Welcome everyone, particularly to the witnesses, some of you have come along way. And we greatly appreciate it. Just three days ago i sat across from president zelenskyy in ukraine along with me colleague senator hassan and three other members of the United States senate. As i sat across from him, what i saw was a steely determination to continue to fight, and that determination is shared by the ukraine people, overwhelmingly. Their courage and strength, again on this fifth visit inspired me a new. President zelenskyy handed me a folder that i took from him then. It was the result of a conversation i had with him a week earlier in munich. It was asking for evidence, if he had any, of american manufactured parts and components in weapons used by russia on the battlefield in ukraine. The folder that he handed me was a powerful indictment of our export control and sanction system. A really searing piece of