[applause] good morning, ladies and gentlemen. As our guests are being seated im steven knapp, president of George Washington university and delighted to welcome you to our city rom. This balcony affords a broad view of the nations capital. This is an excellent symbol of what it means to be the Largest University the nations capitol and has an excellent view of the washington monument. Our monument, and this location is rather extraordinary here. If you drew a line from the state department to the white house and another line from the Federal Reserve to the world bang they would actually intersection right where we are seat sitting right now. That tells you about the importance hover this location and affords us an opportunity to convene important discussions of events of global significance. So im delighted to welcome you to todays discussion nightle. Nato in the age of uncertainty. A conversation with the secretary general of nato. Were horde he could make time during his brief stero
Im the president of George Washington university and im pleased to welcome you. When you do have the opportunity to look outside, we have a balcony here with a broad view of the nations capital. This is an excellent symbol of what it means to be the Largest University in the heart of our nations capital. It affords an end view of our monument, the monument here. We like to think of that as the monument of George Washington university. And this location is extraordinary. If you do a line from the state Department White house, it would intersect where we are sitting now. That tells you a little bit about where we are. It tells you about the importance of this location. And it leads towards events of global significance. I would like to welcome you to todays discussion. A conversation with the secretary general of the nato. We are honored he could make time during his brief visit to washington to come to our campus. Im pleased with knowledge members of the diplomatic unity for being with
Later a look at russias foreignpolicy objectives and its relations with the u. S. And europe from the center for the national interest. Our live coverage begins at 12 40 p. M. Eastern on cspan. Nato secretarygeneral Jens Stoltenberg was in washington this week for a twoday visit. Of his stops included a speech at George Washington university where he took questions from students. Topics included russias military buildup and the syrian civil war. This event happened the day after the secretarygeneral met with President Trump. It is just under an hour. [applause] good morning, ladies and gentlemen. As our guests are being seated im steven knapp, president of im steven knapp, president of George Washington university and im pleased to welcome you. When you do have the opportunity to look outside, we have a balcony here with a broad view of our nations capital. This is an excellent symbol of what it means to be the Largest University in the heart of our nations capital. It affords an excel
Instructions of local officials if you get the Evacuation Order remember you can always rebuild and repair but you cannot restore a life that is lost we want to make sure we minimize any possible loss of life for rest to people in these areas. I also want to make sure we say thanks to those people at the National Weather service and the fee in the team for what theyre doing here and craig thomas from florida and is familiar in a just so happens he has family in areas that could be affected so this is personal for him. You know that he will work around a the clock to make sure we are preventing any loss of life to minimize the impact but it will be a serious storm. Even as we prepare here at home. Keep in mind that haiti one of the poorest countries in the world already suffering from a range of previous disasters has been hit hard by this storm and we anticipate they will need substantial help may be similar needs and places like the bahamas. I would ask those of ii contribute and help
Instructions of local officials if you get the Evacuation Order remember you can always rebuild and repair but you cannot restore a life that is lost we want to make sure we minimize any possible loss of life for rest to people in these areas. I also want to make sure we say thanks to those people at the National Weather service and the fee in the team for what theyre doing here and craig thomas from florida and is familiar in a just so happens he has family in areas that could be affected so this is personal for him. You know that he will work around a the clock to make sure we are preventing any loss of life to minimize the impact but it will be a serious storm. Even as we prepare here at home. Keep in mind that haiti one of the poorest countries in the world already suffering from a range of previous disasters has been hit hard by this storm and we anticipate they will need substantial help may be similar needs and places like the bahamas. I would ask those of ii contribute and help