Determination of those involved in this extraordinary diplomatic endeavor. In particular we acknowledge the instrumental coordinating role played by both former and current e. U. High representatives for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy. Since the core objective of this deal to insure the International Community trust peaceful nature of rare ans Nuclear Program full implementation of verification measures will be indispensable insuring its success. Irans agreement to implement the Additional Protocol to the comprehensive safeguard agreement and and further measures foreseen in the plan of action will provide the International Atomic Energy Agency with powerful tools for Continuous Monitoring and grant the agency extensive access to Irans Nuclear sites. We also welcome the road map agreed by the iaea and iran on the 14th of july that provides a specific time frame to clarify past and present outstanding issues by the end of this year. In addition to the rigorous verification measures
Was the white house aware an indictment was imminent you flew on air force one with the president to philadelphia or criminal Justice Reform . No squl sgl and on the minimum wage, 15 minimum wage im wondering if the white house is willing to support 15 minimum wage. Jordan president obama has made clear eight years since the federal minimum wage increase last passed that action by congress to raise the minimum wage is long overdue. In a previous state of the Union Address we suggested congress raise the minimum wage to 10. 10. More recently we supported legislation by senator congressman scott raising wage to 12 an hour by 2020. Theres a number of proposals pending before congress. We just want them to move on one that we believe that despite this president s leadership in bringing this country out of an economic downturn that we havent seen since the great depression, that despite the longest stretch of private sector job growth in our nations history that wages have not grown fast en
So i wanted to also ask about this idea, weve heard a lot about sanctions. And sanctions as i understand, iran has written the United Nations on july 20th about the sanctions regime. And one of the issues that has concerned me about this agreement is that once the sanctions, the long list of mainly congressally mandated sanctions that will be lifted under this agreement are undertaken if iran for example, engaged in terrorist activity, which is known to do, separate from the Nuclear Program, iran seems to have taken the position in its letter to the u. N. And ive actually read the agreement, and ive been concerned that the agreement provides the same that in fact, iran says it has understood that reintroduction or reimposition including through extension of the sanctions and restrictive measures will constitute significant nonperformance which would relieve iran from its commitments in part or in whole. So my question is as i read this, im deeply concerned that if we want to reimpose t
Difficulties we faced in turkey is to explain this event to our international counterparts. It is very complicated and difficult to express, and one of the difficulties and one of the mysteries of this event is also tackles fighting against three terrorist organizations in the coup attempt, and also how turkey is in thiswith challenges era. We have to go back to the background to understand these. We will have four distinguished guests today. We will try to understand what happened in terms of Foreign Policy and Security Issues in the aftermath of the july 15 coup attempt. Also some background about this. Speakers. Have four isassador james jeffrey, who a distinguished fellow at washington institute. Our second speaker will be professor rene. She is an expert on Turkish Security of Foreign Policy. Our third speaker is criminal richard alston, colonel richard alston. The chair speaker is andecurity studies professor of international university. Seta mr. Ambassador. Let me tackle this fr
The july the 5th attempt. One of the difficulties we faced in turkey is explain this event to our international counterparts, its really well complicated and difficult to stress and one of the difficulties and mysteries of this event is also how turkey fighting against the terrorist organization in the aftermath of the coup attempt and how turkey is dealing with both challenges in this new era. Of course, both are very difficult and we have to go off the background to understand this. We will have four distinguished guests today. We will try to understand what happened in terms of Foreign Policy in the aftermath of july the 15th coup attempt. And also, some background about this development. So we will have four speaks, jeffrey, who is the distinguished fellow at Washington Institute for u. S. Policy, our second speaker will be profess or do nae from the university, Foreign Policy. Our third speaker is colonel richard houston, senior u. S. Army advise are and member of planning at u. S