as noted resubmitted our testimony so i will hit a few high points for carbide to start to stated some of pleasure to appear before you with ms. jacobson to is our diplomat in the americas but my purpose today is to address the regional context in which our cuba policy is unfolding today about the strategic dimensions of diplomacy. day international relations board once wrote the purpose is not to preserve a presence but to create the future to note that global engagement whether diplomacy or force is to defend one tie future against another we should understand the president's a policy against cuba to engage to seek normalization attempts to create a new train to pursue a future that leads to redressed the desire to those in nova benefits of liberty is no less for action the president said to be clear of the individual liberty he has also been clear about the inability to affect the change to act alone across so many decades that the efforts are more effective to position squarely with the american system to recognize democracy as a right that belongs to all people of our hemisphere a