says to give you an idea of the sentiments of the people in croatia, july 4th, croatia, july 4th, 1998, i know there any soccer fans, that was the world cup in the quarterfinals match, cariso of beat germany and one of the greatest upsets in history. my wife and i came to meet with the prosecutors to give information and discuss the case and walking through the city, the streets literally shook every time croatia scored a goal. a tremendous upset. we walked out of the hotel to take a look at the celebration and all of the sudden i see marching my direction seven young men about 22 through 28 waving a gigantic flag which i could not see. and they're yelling at the top of their lungs, remember he is in jail and awaiting trial. he did not score the goals. but it gives you a sense of an idea what sort of sentiment exists over there and why it was so important to put him on trial. another senior remember from the trial. every day his family's to come to the court room and one day at the end of the session and the edge to edge did a phenomenal job speaking to someone and it was taken out of

as croatia has into the final stage have succession to the european union.and in that dialogue with croatia and the e.u., obviously effective governance is an import element, fighting corruption, cooperating with the international tribunal before yugoslavia, but we look forward to developing relationship with them. >> follow-up. could he expect more support from the u.s. as a person because despite excellent relations between the u.s. and croatia, the actual president never received an invitation to visit the united states in 10 years? >> well, we don't necessarily personalize our relationships. we have a relationship with croatia because it's vitally important, in nato ally. we met with the foreign minister of croatia last month at the state department and will continue our dialogue with croatia but we well, this results. >> thank you. >> a blackwater. do you know what the responsibility would be a blackwater in afghanistan if they bid on contracts to their and a secondary question, do you know when the temporary -- >> i don't understand your first question

and also he's the former ambassador to croatia so that's a lot of titles there. chuck pena who's a senior fellow at the independent institute and myself -- i'm ivan eland. the institute's director. i'll speak first because i'm standing up here and i'll moderate the question and answer so you'll be seeing me a lot of me, i guess. maybe too much. and after the program is finished, everybody is welcomed to stay for the informal lunch which we'll have just right in this room. now, of course, what prompted this forum was that the president recently gave a john kerry-like speech last tuesday that essentially said, we will escalate the war before we deescalate it. the president who is against the surge in iraq is now imitating that same surge in afghanistan. the plan seems to be surge, stabilize the cities and win time to train the afghan security forces. that is the hidden message that there is -- we're going to contain but not defeat the taliban. now, the president's afghan plan has some problems as i see it. .... >> there was also the fact there was so much ethnic cl

countries and my intent to end the designation of croatia you should the g.s.p. program.oclamation 6813 of july, 1965, maldives is a beneficiary development country is suspended. after considering the criteria set forth in the act, i have determined that the suspension of the designation of the mall teeves as a g.s.c. developing clint should be ended. in addition, i have determined that croatia and equatorial guinea have become a high-income country as defined by the official statistics for reconstruction and development. in accordance with section 502b in the act, i have determined that the designations of croatia and equatorial guinea should be terminated effective january 31, 2011, signed, barack obama, the white house, december 31, 2009. the speaker pro tempore: ordered to the committee of ways and means and ordered printed. the chair will entertain requests for one-minute speeches. mr. hoyer: mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute, revise and extends my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. hoyer: thank you very mu