Mass destruction. He spoke to the Arms Control Association about the Trump Administration strategy for north korea, relations with russia and the iran nuclear agreement. Welcome back everyone. Welcome back then please find your seats so we can resume here at the Arms Control Association net annual meeting with our first keynote speaker of the day. Thank you. Once again, im darrell kimball, director of the Arms Control Association. My friends are here for our 2017 Arms Control Association annual meeting. Please to have with us today Christopher Ford whose special assistant to the president and senior director for weapons of mass instruction and counter proliferation policy at the National Security council. Chris who has extensive experience on these issues has been on the professional staff of the Senate Relations committee, banking committee, easter on the personal staff of a senator Susan Collins as her National Security advisor and before that he served at the state department as a s
And they have more or less supported each other in that discussion. We are now have a much clearer understanding what turkey can do for our internal politics, what jordan has been able to do and others as well. To that effect i think we are getting much better understanding and less involvement of our neighbors in our internal affairs and more toward the stability of the country. Thats a good sign. So we think that our neighbors have matured up to that challenge. Iraqis internal politics have also matured up. Not to overdepend on extended parties, because your neighbor, your Community Neighbor whether theyre kurdish, shia, others, regardless are there support you from the outside. So we are a project in the making. And we are developing in the right direction. But on the fight against isis i still think we need a lot of support. Are you finding that some parties think that isis can be useful pressure against iranian influence in iraq and can help sue for the kind of political deal afte
And they have more or less supported each other in that discussion. We are now have a much clearer understanding what turkey can do for our internal politics, what jordan has been able to do and others as well. To that effect i think we are getting much better understanding and less involvement of our neighbors in our internal affairs and more toward the stability of the country. Thats a good sign. So we think that our neighbors have matured up to that challenge. Iraqis internal politics have also matured up. Not to overdepend on extended parties, because your neighbor, your Community Neighbor whether theyre kurdish, shia, others, regardless are there support you from the outside. So we are a project in the making. And we are developing in the right direction. But on the fight against isis i still think we need a lot of support. Are you finding that some parties think that isis can be useful pressure against iranian influence in iraq and can help sue for the kind of political deal afte
And they have more or less supported each other in that discussion. We are now have a much clearer understanding what turkey can do for our internal politics, what jordan has been able to do and others as well. To that effect i think we are getting much better understanding and less involvement of our neighbors in our internal affairs and more toward the stability of the country. Thats a good sign. So we think that our neighbors have matured up to that challenge. Iraqis internal politics have also matured up. Not to overdepend on extended parties, because your neighbor, your Community Neighbor whether theyre kurdish, shia, others, regardless are there support you from the outside. So we are a project in the making. And we are developing in the right direction. But on the fight against isis i still think we need a lot of support. Are you finding that some parties think that isis can be useful pressure against iranian influence in iraq and can help sue for the kind of political deal afte
And they have more or less supported each other in that discussion. We are now have a much clearer understanding what turkey can do for our internal politics, what jordan has been able to do and others as well. To that effect i think we are getting much better understanding and less involvement of our neighbors in our internal affairs and more toward the stability of the country. Thats a good sign. So we think that our neighbors have matured up to that challenge. Iraqis internal politics have also matured up. Not to overdepend on extended parties, because your neighbor, your Community Neighbor whether theyre kurdish, shia, others, regardless are there support you from the outside. So we are a project in the making. And we are developing in the right direction. But on the fight against isis i still think we need a lot of support. Are you finding that some parties think that isis can be useful pressure against iranian influence in iraq and can help sue for the kind of political deal afte