Close coordination with our iraqi partners in baghdad and in the north province. At bottom, as military Campaign Plan comes together, thesefour nonmilitary components , political agreement on the disposition of forces, and unified humanitarian plan, civilization of local governments must keep pace. I believe next to the pledging conference yesterday to meetings we are having this Week Foundation is being set. The liberation of mosul and raqqa is now an achievable objective and its one we must get right. Liberating these areas will not only free millions from the terror of daesh, it will make the world safer. Tonight daesh c haven the plan attacks, denying access toresources , shuddering propaganda outlets and exposing it. When two historic caliphate. Two years ago, when we first met as a coalition in general, is looking possible. But thanks to our work to date is now possible but is still not inevitable. The unexpected will happen. We must remain flexible, adaptive, he prepared to respond to katie united in a dynamic and highly uncertain environment. The former american president anytown liberation of europe in world war ii, Dwight Eisenhower famously said the plan is often useless. Its the planning that is indispensable. By planning together as a coalition over the coming weeks, by pooling resources and ensuring our nonmilitary line to keep pace with the military progress we can and will remain steps ahead of daesh and we will provide our partners on the ground who will be doing the fighting with the best they have to deal the third the most significant and effective as secretary carter said lasting defeat yet so again i want to back you for coming here and i look forward to working with you over the months ahead and for the discussion we will have the rest of the afternoon, thank you. Brett, thanks very much. I now ask again for the press to clear the room. We are going to take, let me share with everybody well while the press is moving out, we will have a series of interventions coming up now by individual countries, specific to your and syria to some degree. We will then have a working. We leave the last few events to take you like to the state department and secretary of state john kerry with defense secretary aston carter and the followup news conference. As i think you know, today we convened a meeting of the foreign and defense ministers of the Counter Daesh Coalition. And with the welcome addition of interval, that coalition now stands at 67 members. And today its sessions included presentations from the secretary of defense, secretary carter , special president ial envoy kirk, the director of National Intelligence general clapper and we had a lot of time through three different sessions, the main session this morning, luncheon session and then a long session this afternoon to the vehicle to have a full discussion that was almost, i think everybody weighing in and i think one thing that really struck me today was the extraordinary threat of agreement about the strategy, about what we have accomplished, we still have to encompass and the direction ahead. Across every region and in every aspect of our work , the level of commitment could not be higher. In the recent spate of vicious terror attacks in various countries of the middle east and europe and elsewhere has only made every Single Member of this coalition more determined to succeed. Now, i think its really important to remember that the Counter Daesh Coalition came together less than two years ago, starting from ground zero in terms of this kind of broad cooperative initiative along many different lines of effort as we call them but ranging from the connecticut, the military direct action to the training to the counter for a Fighter Movement efforts to the counter financing efforts to the targeting of their infrastructure and their payment routines to the exchange of information, the sharing of intelligence, its been a major growth in the capacity of the coalition to actually become more and more effective every day. At the time, that we came together, president obama directed me to put this coalition together, at that point in time the terrorists were rampaging through broad parts of both syria and iraq and everybody remembers the images of these parades of toyotas with machine guns, with black flags and isil members seemingly unopposed at that moment in time until president obama ordered the beginning of air attacks to stop them from moving into baghdad itself. They were overrunning and plundering key cities, murdering or enslaving thousands of people. And they were destroying ancient cultural sites and declaring themselves the leaders of all of islam. One of the things that left out to me today and of course of our discussions were the arab countries themselves that requires Stabilization Support coming from people as well was equipment to support and funding for various initiatives. The coalition is now determined to do what is necessary to fight dash is and syria. But today Coalition Partners have carried out more than 4,000 airstrikes in an effort that is clearly now going to benefit by the decision of four Additional Coalition members to join the air campaign. We know as i said earlier in my opening comments to a the ministers that defeating daish is a challenge and we know that weve been are making progress but we want more and to do it faster. Also getting at it is a challenge. We will prepare carefully and proceed relentlessly. I am confident we will succeed. In and what i mean is we will deprive daish of of their base and strike a heavy blow in those two areas with the most secure territory from which it was announcing. But daish will remain dangerous even when that the ft takes place and the reason is they have dispersed people over a number of years to the various countries and as we were reminded today by the participants of this coalition, in fact, reminded by the foreign minister of iraq to himself who have said people come to iraq for more than 100 countries attracted by the initial narrative that daish was pushing through social media. Even though it is losing ground in the middle east we already know they will try to transform themselves into a Global Terrorist Organization and Network Capable of orchestrating attacks that we have seen in various places and that also will take time and is hard work. Countering this Global Network plan was the subject of the afternoon discussion today, the major focus among Coalition Members. We talked about the importance of realtime communication so police and Border Guards and officials know when they are coming into contact with suspected terrorists. So somebody is visiting who has been to iraq depends on the flow of information and coordination between the Coalition Members we talked about efforts under way to contradict daish messaging from social media and efforts better should knowing showing said it began zions of progress with the entry of many of the muslim nations, arad and otherwise opening their own Communications Channels that have been most effective so those a have defected or sharing with people the mythologies of daish allies they are told in the exploitation that has a profound impact to help counter the recruitment and change the overall narrative. We talk about the need to create opportunity where populations are most susceptible to terrorist recruitment and week knowledge that radicalization can result from any number of specific causes if there is no one thing of the particular instigator and obviously some of these recruitment efforts are quite unique to those individuals involved as we learn more about their lives and mental state. Finally we agreed on the importance of a very simple but compelling message that we hope to spread everywhere and that message is the terrorism we have seen a by daish and their accomplices literally results so far anyway but in nothing but death and destruction. Edessa ended bans any particular cause most could not tell you what the cause is except an explosion of anger and hate the results in the death that i described. Nothing that i do will lead us to abandon our principles and beliefs because they dont offer an alternative. It will not pompous to change the way we organize societies for lessened our commitment to human rights including womens rights with our commitment to the rule of law it will not drive us from Public Places of restaurants or sports arenas or houses of worship or celebrations of cultural and national pride. People around the world listening to daish propaganda should know beyond a scintilla of doubt that when the story of our era is written, the world will look back to say that daish made zero difference beyond the cruel suffering that it caused end of every Single Person who committed mortar or suicide at its direction did so shamefully and in vain. The think the message at todays meeting is clear the counter Daish Coalition will go forward today from washington united and more determined with the clear sense of its strategy in the will press on vigorously with our partners with this endeavor in iraq and syria and libya and we talk data links with libya and our commitment to the National Court in the efforts to fight and we will steadily intensify our efforts intel would never impose today is ended and we are working with friends across the globe with increasing strategies and commitments to root out those terrorist networks to find new and innovative ways ourselves to enhance our communications to disrupt the enemy and safeguard the lives of our citizens that is what todays meeting was about in one of the best i have attended the during the time i have been secretary of state and they think it was productive and will be measured by the results on the ground. With that i am happy to take a few questions. We have time for just a few. You just talked about unity in the counter isil coalition and they do is the beating heart of the coalition can you respond to Donald Trumps remarks about the nato unity and his suggestion about potential financial quid pro quo in the u. S. Meeting or not meeting treaty obligations under nato . Look, i have said this before and i will say it again. I am not going to get into a the president ial race. I am not allowed under law. To go candidate against kennedy i am not in politics. So let me just restate american policy with respect to nato because i want our partners to be clear where we stand. This Administration Like every Single Administration republican and democrat alike since 1949, remains fully committed to the Nato Alliance and to our security commitments under article five which is absolutely bedrock to our membership. Every nato country is a member of the coalition against daish and 20 of those 28 nations were here today that is how important it is and a coordination with allies be made it clear in warsaw a week ago or so we will continue to increase capability in readiness and responsiveness of the nato forces to address any threat to detour further stabilizing activities that occur. Nato is as unified as it has been. They plus up the money they are contributing, and our souls, we are strengthening our presence. And i think everybody believes that is making a difference to the security of our country. The next question. It is obvious the next up would be mosul for apollo flight with the transition with syria with what is happening . Hopeful is the right word. I cannot say i am confident because there are very tough issues better being resolved but i reiterate what i said in moscow. We made progress in moscow. In the last couple of days as our teams have been working to do the homework we said we would do coming out of moscow, it has been constructive. We are going steadily and carefully down the road without making promises to people in public that we can keep because i think people are already frustrated enough by what is happening in syria. We will go methodically, there is a possibility if everybody does what they have said they are prepared to do that this could change. That is our goal. I am hopeful we can get there we will do everything in our power to working good faith to do so. But nothing we have done or are doing is based on trusting the word of somebody but based on our ability to work out a series of measurable steps that each party would take in order to make this work. The proof is not in the words but the final product. The next question comes from a sp. With the plans you are making with libya and yemen there are other areas beyond syria and iraq that have a political crisis at the moment. And to support local forces. Have we been able to engage with mr. Putin last week . Anything you can tell us about on july 17 . I did hear the last part. I cannot say anything about that at this point in time with turkey and yemen flatly be very specific the foreign minister because of the security meetings theyre having back there and with not be affected by those events of the counter daish never enter key will continue to be a working in a full partner and member with the counter Daish Coalition and with no consequence of what has happened from the turkish minister who came here today in order to take part in these meetings. We have had a series of meetings in the last few days. In brussels we discussed the coordination we also talked about ukraine with another challenge were working on. And in brussels we talked in london over todays with several meetings and with these initiatives then and now with the deputy crown prince to talk about yemen and with the egyptians about libya and i think in both places we could charge out specific steps we hope we can take in the next days to strengthen the government of National Accord as they focus further on daish presence in libya with specific agreements to move that for word likewise those talks are moving. And to lay out a sequence with those provisions that is the stalemate to break that stalemate to move forward. So all of these issues are all of these meetings simultaneously with the most amount of time but we had a long discussion about ukraine and the responsibilities of both parties to move forward and make progress on the agreement and we will be talking with our counterparts to try to that process and then try to see some progress very soon. And these meetings, eddys gatherings with respect to the daish Alliance Gives us an opportunity to also make sure we are working together in the most cooperative way with the state of the hour options do try to resolve this other crisis there all interconnected and well understand that even with very unique characteristics of different sets of players between them there is still a connection of the dots with respect to daish or al qaeda in the case of yemen and the challenge to bring complicated sectarian divisions together in a way to find a solution and i think conceptually we made progress now we need to implement what we have agreed on. This concludes the up press conference stick the creative director for the independent journal review the first time we have done in interview sitting on beanbags. I am happy to provide a historical moment. How he played a role in this campaign . And has been fascinating it is the first time the internet will truly be elect a president. 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That now ted cruz personally but it seems like he was like to be taken off the end of of a hot machine gun so we asked if he would be willing in to our surprise he said yes so we cut the bacon with a machine gun with ted cruz avenue, you have the we have worked with nine candidates across the aisle and Martin Omalley a few times saying he went to wall street so he went to see how much money he could raise so we fill the gap. It has been very exciting thing people are realizing you have to be a human being to really you to relate to with you it is a fun moment in journalism where is that phone that Lindsey Graham used now . It was giving in to the smithsonian they asked if we had any historic items and now is legitimately in a museum of the artifacts of 2016 this smashed up pieces of bone is behind glass in a case it is fitting because it did break glass and a lot of rules and it was fun to do dash. 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