include society as a whole, excellencies, the human rights movement is an estimation of our basic humanity. i sank every one working for the human rights council and my gratitude and respect extends far beyond this beautiful hall. most human rights work happens in cramped offices, court rooms, and newsrooms detention centers and prisons. it happens wherever people are working to promote accessible health care, education, shelter, foot security, water and sanitation for the most vulnerable people in the world's environmental campaigners. many of them women and young people are on the front lines of human rights work. cilla, daily greens of advocacy monitoring an investigation. human rights defenders including journalists and lawyers, are standing up for our common humanity. often at great personal risk. together they are helping to build the world of dignity and the quality for all. i salute them and horner their work. thank you. you and secretary general antonio gutierrez, share their addressing via video link, a session of the a, u. n. a human rights council in which he talked about the plight of ukrainians in the conflict there. he said that

we will continue to work for medium-term, long-term change in the membership of the human rights council, so that we can work with a group of countries with better human rights records. we are going to continue to engage with like-minded emperors on the council, try to encourage countries with good human rights records, good democracy and transparency records, to actually run and be candidates for the council, engage with you, ranking member, other members of this committee on how we can get the hrc to focus on some of these worst violators. i agree, having russia, china, cuba, venezuela on there is problematic. hrc is flawed, but it also does give us the opportunity to shine the spotlight on a number of priorities where we are pressing for accountability. as i mentioned, the commission for inquiry on serbia, special rappateur for iran, burma. it is a flawed institution but one that we want to make better while being at the table. i believe we are more effective when we are pushing back on these issues. rep. malliotakis: thank you. chair castro: thank you. vice chair jacobs. rep. jacobs:

human rights council, a sham body with a terrible track record of protecting dictatorships and covering up the crimes of the world's worst human rights abusers, china, russia, cuba, venezuela. instead of focusing on actually human rights issues are brought, the council continues to focus its efforts on persecuting israel, the only country permit me featured on the council's agenda. while this administration publicly stated it would seek changes to the council, we have seen not a single piece of reform since our reentry to the council last year. these reforms should have been a prerequisite of the u.s. seeking election to stay, not a hopeful goal to be left for sometime in the future. the same can be said of the president's decision to unilaterally join the paris accord without congressional conversation. while cost of u.s. taxpayers trillions of dollars, the agreement permits the world's largest carbon emitter, china, to make meager contributions. under the agreement, china may continue raising carbon emissions until 2030. when the united states engages with international organizations,

today the united states joins the united nations human rights council at the council's 49th regular session. the u.s. returned to that body fulfills a pledge made by president biden and reflects the centrality of human rights to our country's foreign policy. the timing of this session could not be more tune -- opportune. since the opening moments of russia's premeditated, unprovoked, and unjustified attack on ukraine, reports of human rights abuses have been widespread. let there be no confusion. russia attacked ukraine because ukraine dared to pursue a democratic path. just today the human rights council voting overwhelmingly in support of ukraine's request to hold an urgent debate later this week on thursday about human rights abuses in ukraine. on march 1, secretary blinken will deliver remarks to assembled council members and use that opportunity to spell out clearly the threat phoezed by russia while noting that ukraine is car from the only part of the world where the council's attention is needed on an urgent basis. u.s. permanent representative to the united nations and other interna

human rights law. it is the duty of the you and human rights council to demonstrate its credibility and relevance and to take appropriate action to put an end to gross and systematic violations of human rights stemming from the russian aggression. we call upon its members to exercise their responsibility and support our request for an urgent debate. i thank you. which as nursing i that was the ukrainian law permanent rep said to the, to the you know, your jenny or phillip banker speaking from geneva as the you and hcr conducting a session there. i'm in the, in geneva, just laying out the plight of so many ukrainians right now as a result of this, or we are expecting to hear from the russian representatives at some point where we are being told. and we are also expecting to hear as well from the un secretary general, we understand is also there, but the russian federation representative about to speak. now let's listen into concerns about human rights in ukraine. before us, we have nothing other than the usual attempt of care to distract attention the attention of the internal community away from what th

to work with a group of countries with better human rights records, we are going to continue to engage with like-minded members on the councily to encourage countries with good human rights records transparency record to actually run my candidates for the a council and engage with yu and other members of the committee on how we get to focus on these. i agree china and russia cuba and venezuela on their is problematic. hrc is flawed but it gives us opportunity to shine the spotlight on priorities where we are pressing for accountability. imagine the commission on syria, special repertoires iran, and burma, flawed institution but one we want to make better by being at the table. more effective when they're pushing back on these. >> thank you. vice chairman jacobs. >> thank you so much for testifying before the committee. i wanted to s follow-up on your answers, i wanted to talk about the un and impact it has on this. could you describe the impact it's had not just on u.s. audience but also the ability of these operations and how china russia houston this? >> thank you soel much and i hae to say thank you for your interest in y

geneva, where the un secretary general antonio good ted is addressing the 49 session of the human rights council in geneva via video conference, listening, crushing in both visions from the college. an interesting let me know. all right, apologies. we're having some, some technical problems with our translation. there we do apologize. this is one un secretary general antonio to cherish addressing the 49 session of the human un human rights council in geneva, on the situation in ukraine. while we are trying to fix that, just give you a little bit of background on this earlier we heard from the ukrainian representatives in the russian referred representatives giving as you would expect to this point, vastly different pictures of, of what is happening to ukrainians there. and the suffering, the guy to the claim representative talked about how much you claim that having to deal with there in terms of just daily life, what it's been like for them in the 4 days, 5 days. rather, since this attack began, the russian representative focus very much on what was happening in don boss region . and the way ci

first thing on tuesday morning at this session of the human rights council. i've been speaking to the russian mission in geneva, the russian mission to the united nations that i've been speaking to the un colleagues in moscow been speaking the russian foreign ministry. it was a couple of hours ago that the russians finally said no, he's not traveling. and that's because the visit permission has not come through in order to allow him to travel. because you are a member, the u. s. space is now close to russian aircraft. my understanding is the russians approach the you and that was the problem. these orders to close the space done country by country, and some of those countries refuse to allow mr. lab ross plain to travel. so he will now address the meeting by video statement where i'm sure you'll hear the views that you heard from the russian ambassador, the united nations facility, a new bens who spoke a short time in a short time ago about an hour ago in the un general assembly very similar lines that russia had to act because of the situation in the don't b

human rights council, bringing russia before the human rights council as well. and there's another resolution that we're bringing before the general assembly in a special emergency meeting that we're requesting tonight. so we're keeping the pressure up on the russians. >> you didn't mention a war crimes tribunal in the hague. is that also on the table? >> i think everything is on the table as we move forward. as we're dealing with the situation today, we're continuing to address all of those issues. >> during the very moment that you were giving your especially at the u.n. security council meeting, urging russia not to invade ukraine, vladimir putin was launching his invasion. what was that moment like when you realized that was happening? >> you know, it showed the complete and utter disrespect that the russians have for u.n. values, for the u.n. charter. there was a buzz across the room in the security council as we all began to get information that this was happening on the ground as we were speaking. so again, we're not surprised. the u.s. warned about this

ros: in the past hour, ukraine said it is urging eight urgent human rights council session at the united. the ukraine health ministry has reported 57 people have been killed today, 169 people wounded. this is the ukrainian president. >> putin started a war against ukraine, against the whole democratic world. he wants to destroy my country. he wants to destroy our country, everything we have blt, everything we live for. ros: announcing the invasion, vladimir putin went on russian tv and said this. >> whoever tries to interfere with us or threaten our country should know that russia's response will be immediate and lead to such consequences that have never been experienced in history. ros: airstrikes began this morning after president putin ordered the attack. this map shows the reported strikes and explosions. they have it in eight major cities including the capital, kyiv. russia says it has destroyed more than 70 military targets including airfields. this is a missile striking the airport in western ukraine. these pictures have not been filmed by the bbc but we have verified that. this i

you and human rights council is holding an urgent debate on russia military invasion with leaders urging for a return to deploy. the escalation of military operations by the russian federation, ukraine is leading to escalating human rights violations. we know the inevitable result of was civilian casualties. women, children, men, force from their homes, hunger poverty, and huge economic disruption. conflict is the utter negation of human rights across the boards. freedom of expression is under attack. with reports of generalise and active, you suggested i have consistently called for the end of the offensive and the return to the best of dialogue and diplomacy. meanwhile, all human rights money for a mission in ukraine. these continue its work and already military and agencies will step up their operations. we must show all people in ukraine that we stand by them in their time of need. the military attack on a crane is putting at risk countless lives between thursday morning and last night . our office has recorded 406000000 casualties, including 100 to kill, including 7 children, and 30

estimates that more than half a 1000000 people have had to flee from their homes in the us. human rights council is holding a debate on russia's military invasion. you and leaders calling for return to diplomacy. the escalation of military operations by the russian federation, ukraine is leading to escalating human rights violations. we know the inevitable result of was civilian casualties. women, children enforced from their homes, hunger poverty, and huge economic disruption. conflict is the utter negation of human rights across the boards. freedom of expression is under attack. with reports of journalists and active use arrested. i have consistently called for the end of the offensive and the return to the best of dialogue and diplomacy. meanwhile, all human rights money for a mission in ukraine. these continue its work and the only military in agencies will step up their operations. we must show all people in ukraine that we stand by them in their time of needs, policy crossover to our russian. our bonus smith is life for a say in a moscow. so a burner just 1st off. what's the, what does it

the un human rights council has been holding a debate on russia's military invasion. and you and leaders are calling for a return to diplomacy. the escalation of military operations by the russian federation, ukraine, is leading to escalating human rights violations. we know the inevitable result of was civilian casualties women, children, men, force from their homes, hunger poverty, and huge economic disruption. conflict is the utter negation of human rights across the boards. freedom of expression is under attack. with reports of generalise and active, you suggested. i have consistently called for the end of the offensive and the return to the best of dialogue and diplomacy. meanwhile, all human rights monetary mission in ukraine. these continue its work and the only military in agencies will step up their operations. we must show all people in ukraine that we stand by them in their time of needs. all the number of african countries, including nigeria and south africa, say they're trying to get their citizens out of ukraine. ah, the move comes after several of their

the you and human rights council is debating, rushes invasion with you and leaders calling for a return to deployment. the escalation of military operations by the russian federation, ukraine is leading to escalating human rights violations. we know the inevitable result of what civilian casualties, women, children, men, force from their homes, hunger poverty, and huge economic disruption. conflict is the atom negation of human rights across the boards. fillum of expression is under attack. with reports of journalists and activists, arrested, i have consistently called for the end of the offensive and the return to the best of dialogue and diplomacy. meanwhile, all human rights monitoring mission in ukraine. these continue its work and already military in agencies will step up their operations. we must show all people in ukraine that we stand by them in their time of needs. let's go to eastern poland aah with steadfast and where ukrainians are crossing that border steps and speaking to people as have come through. what have there been telling you? well, hot breaking breaking seeds here

announcement came as russia said lavrov had canceled his trip to the geneva-based united nations human rights councilice of oil soared from more sanctions. brent futures jumped more than 7% before pulling back slightly. russia is the world's third-largest oil producer. any disruption to the flows could exacerbate the tightness in the market. global news, 24 hours a day, on air and on bloomberg quick take, powered by more than 2700 journalists in over 120 countries. i am mark crumpton, this is bloomberg. ♪ john: welcome to bloomberg markets. matt: these are the top stories from around the world. president putin announced counter sanctions with countries around the world piling up penalties against russia after its invention -- invasion of ukraine. shell plans to exit its joint ventures with gazprom and other related russian entities adding to chaos and commodities as a result of the war in ukraine. bitcoin jumped, rebounding from a selloff over the weekend amid speculation that cryptocurrencies will be in favor in the wake of sanctions against russia and that might be a place where to put your wealth

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you are in geneva and you and central rights -- human rights council meeting today under a cloud of invasionre we expecting to happen? maria: yeah, absolutely. you have seen the response from the international community, they are horrified at the brutality of the attack from russia into ukraine. remember on monday and tuesday especially, when vladimir putin came out and give a message, he said this will be a keys keeping operation in eastern ukraine in one region. now russia is attacking ukraine on every front. operations happening from belarus. there will be a focus today on the russian delegation. sergei lavrov is due to be here. we are keeping an eye on the international response from russia. yesterday we heard from vladimir putin saying he did not like the unfriendly economic edgers and he did not like -- economic measures and he did not like the threats from nato countries. he said in response, i call on the nuclear deterrence and will explore options. that doesn't mean he will do it, and we have to be extremely careful when we talk about nuclear weapons. yesterday, an official told me

there will be a meeting in geneva at the human rights council where they, again, will be called out andir aggressions will be brought to the attention of the world. so, again, we have a number of tools to put pressure on the russians, and we're using all of those tools. >> all right. ambassador linda thomas-greenfield, really appreciate you coming on and sharing the administration's perspective. let's hope this works. >> thank you very much, chuck. >>> we have senator mark warner and senator rob portman. they sit on the relations committee. they traveled together last week. gentlemen, welcome to "meet the press." we have some news that has trickled out in the last few minutes. president putin has agreed to meet with a russian delegation on the border of ukraine in belarus. obviously we'll always deploy diplomacy if diplomacy can work here. any advice to how we can manage these negotiations? >> i think ukranians know how to do it, and they also know to be distrustful of anything russia says since it's been propaganda, disinformation. by the way, belarus is where they wanted to have the m

human rights. now, there is a matter of the sensitivity of the time, madam president, as well. the regular session of the u.n. human rights council begins on february 28, which is obviously just days away. it's essential in my view that we confirm our representative now. delaying ms. taylor's confirmation simply hinders the united states' ability to advocate for american values and help vulnerable people who are suffering under abuse and oppression around the world. moving this nomination forward is an opportunity for the senate to show this chamber's commitment to advancing human rights is in fact more than just talk. there's a deadline, a specific concrete deadline of february 28 that's bearing down on the chamber. there simply is no more time to delay on this important nomination. we await a colleague who would like to have a chance to be heard on this, to consider it. i do hope that we can work this out here in the afternoon. hopefully the senate will wrap up business this afternoon because this really is time sensitive. members talk about matters that actually may be coming up. this one is upon us. i do hope that we will be

so k lab ross addressing the un human rights council by video link. and that's because he was trying to go there wanted to go that because we are exclusion orders . he can't make it to geneva for that meeting. so he will be addressing it by video link and where you are a james in brussels. there has been a flurry of diplomatic activity as well and the use top diplomat has been speaking . what did he have to say? what more on, on what is going to go on with regard to this very new thing for the you, they've never done this before. providing weapons to an active was own into a country under attack. we know that there's going to be about $500000000.00 more of the mass. in fact, gotta be spent. what they've been discussing today is exactly where they get it by the weapons from exactly what they're going to buy and how they're going to get it to ukraine. we haven't none of the details of that at this stage. the other thing that's worth talking about is presidents lensky, has signed an order, which he's sending to brussels, saying he wants to fall strike yo

security council, the human rights council -- sometimes we look at the membership of some of these bodiesnd they raise eyebrows. this is coming in for the ministry of defense, they talk about what's happening. the air force is fighting off the air attacks, the defense forces are maintaining defensive positions, the situation is under control. the information of the parachuting of russian troops in odessa is not true, that is reported, they say together we will win. we are going to be getting a lot of information from a lot of different sources. >> bret: we have to be careful. our people on the ground have heard the marines, russian marines have landed in odessa. this is from the ukrainian defense forces saying they are not seeing that. they also put out hundreds of ukrainian soldiers died in russian air strikes, that's quoting a senior official in "the wall street journal." this is the fog of war, the early hours, we don't have eyes in every place. we have to be careful about how we reported, the caveats we put on, clearly there is an invasion. >> shannon: we entered the reporting as well

minister — sergei lavrov had cancelled a scheduled trip to geneva on tuesday to address the un human rights councilchief strategist at russia's largest bank — talking to us from moscow. you are beginning to see a little bit of queuing and some grocery stores, particularly people buying goods that they think might come in short supply due to trade restrictions or may be subject to big price increases because of the rouble devaluation. meanwhile, turkey says that it will block warships from the key. bosphorus and dardanelles straits in line with a convention that gives it control over the passage of military vessels in the strategic area. the 1936 convention gives ankara some control over the movement of warships in the straits. the bosphorus connects the sea of marmara with the black sea, while the dardanelles connect it with the aegean sea. breaking news with regard to media sanctions. yes it if you watching the bbc in may have seen me cover the bbc in may have seen me cover the european union announcing that it's to restrict the russian media outlets, russia today, rt and sputnik saying russia tod

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particular have suffered from years of insecurity, humanitarian crisis, and human rights violations and abuses. this council and its members have the responsibility to work, to resolve this conflict, rather than yield to a grim new chapter, which will inflict further misery on ukraine and its people. this is the time to show the courage to pull back from the precipice and return to dialogue and diplomacy. mister president, we'll need to demonstrate our faith in the value of diplomacy to nice. thank you. yeah, we'll go to the i thank the representative of island for statement. can i give the floor to the phone, a representative of the united arab emirates. thank you mister president. and at the outset, i'd like to thank under sex general for political peace building affairs. miss rosemary decarlo for her updates and briefing this evening. and i'd like to refer to the statement that the u. e. delivered in this chamber on 17th february on the same subject. i'd like to emphasize once again, the importance of de escalation and restraint, that to maintain regional and international security and stability. we beli

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>> officials from ukraine and human rights activist talked about tensions between russia and ukraine. hosted by the atlantic council, they discuss humanitarian issues in crimea, which russia annexed in 2014, and potential human rights abuses if russia invades ukraine. >> thank you for joining us. this is a super important event. today's webinar is called fighting to survive, the human toll of the crimmins ukraine war. we have a member of parliament and someone focused on this for many years. welcome. glad to have you here. i also have the director of right to protection, a really important ngo. i am pleased to be a member of his board. i have a nonresident senior fellow at the eurasian center. and all over canadian media. you will probably have seen him on television. great to have you on our platform. and last but not least, a great activist who is the head of the national office of the crimea platform. great to have you here. ho is the head of the national office of the crimea platform. right to have you here. as you know, ukraine is in the news. it looks like ukraine is going to be invaded by russia very soon. w

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human rights are front and center in our foreign policy. we don't play down human rights violations anywhere in the world including in yemen. i've had a number of meetings in the security councile've raised our concerns about human rights violations being committed by all sides. >> how seriously can that be taken given that a saudi pilot might drop a bomb from an f-15 in yemen killing innocent civilians and then land the plane and there is the u.s. government there to help them provide maintenance on that very plane? >> we call out those efforts. let me be clear, there are human rights violations being committed in yemen on all sides. we are dealing with a force there, the houthis who have not taken into account any efforts to protect the rights of people who are under their own protections supposedly. so, again, this is a situation where we're working constantly to address any issues related to civilian injuries and violations being committed of human rights of everyone in that country. >> the world saw president xi meet with russian president vladimir putin this week at the olympics in a show of unity, amid tensions with the u.s., china and russia committed to deepening thei

you were invited to the council of europe, these temple of human rights in the middle of the channel war. in the very middle of the, she won't even before before the house of youth agreements for hypocritical political reasons, the europeans than they are of the opinion that it's better to invite you and the you were invited in the middle of the wall, healing thousands and thousands of your own citizens in church now, we count upon the proper reaction by the international community to medieval atrocities by russia and ukraine. for today, a number of countries have already imposed sanctions from russia. and the building must be having and if you say that function is nothing that i'm sure that the bodies of killed soldiers of russia is not nothing. even if you are completely the ball. we are sincerely grateful to the end for its prompt decision to support the humanitarian response in ukraine as well as highly avail is be highly recommend the u. s. efforts to encourage major humanitarian donors to make additional funding available. i think the secretary general who his statement to this

you shouldn't have been invited to the council your, you were invited to the council of europe, these temple of human rights in the middle of the channel war in the very middle of the, she won't even before before the hoss of you to grievance for people critical political reasons. the europeans than where of the opinion that is better to invite you and the you were invited in the middle of the wall, healing thousands and thousands of your own citizens in church. now we counted upon the proper reaction by the international community to medieval atrocities by russia and ukraine. for today, a number of countries have already imposed sanctions from russia. and the building must be having in if you say that function is nothing who i'm sure that the bodies of killed soldiers of russia is not nothing even if you are completely diabolical. we are sincerely grateful to the n for eats prompt decision to support the humanitarian response in ukraine as well as highly come as well as we highly command the u. s. efforts to encourage major humanitarian donnas to make additional funding available. i thank the secretary gen

council of europe. this was set up at the end of the 2nd world war to uphold human rights and democracy in europe. a 47 member countries of the council of europe, but he said, it's a good reason to slam the door on the mir video said. and it gives us a chance to restore the death penalty for dangerous criminals. so that political isolation, along with the fact that many eastern european airlines have now banned russia from flying into them. and in response, russia has banned those countries um using its air space that shows the plot, practical isolation of russia, that is now taking place surgery. thank you. burnett's math reporting from marcella . thank if or earlier one of our colleagues was briefly detained as he was reporting an eastern ukraine. charl stratford isn't in the pro and here's a story. we returned from the city of zapper isha where the situation is becoming increasingly tense. a lot more military checkpoints, a lot more military hardware than, than we saw there yesterday. as an indication of how 10 cities we were preparing to go live to do a live broadcast. we're out of nowhere, see

special assistant to the president and senior director for multilateral affairs for human rights and the national security council. ranking member would you introduce your two majority witnesses i think the general and ambassador sales for being here. the general served as the 17th chief of staff of the us air force as a member of the joint chiefs of staff. he provided military advice directly to the president of cothe united states as secretary of defense national security council. general pomper served as senior air force officer responsible for more than 700,000 acting duty guard reserve and civilian forces serving in the united states and overseas during the global war on terror. he oversaw the introduction of numerous air and space combat systems including unmanned area systems. all of us thank him for his 39 years of service in the military. ambassador nathan sales served as ambassador at large and coordinator for counterterrorism as well as acting under secretary for civilian security v, democracy and human rights at the state department. he was also special presidential envoy to the global coalition to de

particular have suffered from years of insecurity, humanitarian crisis, and human rights violations and abuses. this council and its members have a responsibility. it will inflict further misery on ukraine and its people. this is the time to show the courage to pull back from the precipice and return to dialogue and diplomacy. thank you. >> i think the representative of ireland for her statement. i now give the floor to the permanent representative of the united arab emirates. >> thank you mr. president and at the outset i would like to thank the secretary-general for the peas building affairs. and the updates and briefing this evening. i would like to refer to the statement of the uae delivered in this chamber on the 17th of february on the same subject. i would like to emphasize once again the importance of de-escalation and restraint and maintain regional and international security and stability. now is the time to engage constructively and in good faith to address the current situation and mitigate its impact on any civilians and civilian infrastructure. to chart a diplomatic path forward. mr. president

human rights will protect all civilians including older people from obese and government forces and grants must abide by this international law. the 2nd is that un un human rights count. so the un security council, they need to ensure that the enhanced protection of all the civilians is comprehensively addressed throughout their work. and then thirdly, as he mentioned, she monetary and agencies they need to ensure that older people are included in humanitarian responses. and the date is that funds and also need to make sure that older people are included in humanitarian responses to st. practical, things that need to take place. another facet of this conflict is and i'm glad we could talk to you about a bridge and say from human rights watch. thank you. thank you very much. on to other news and students in the occupied west bank fear their school lives about become the latest to be bulldozed by the israeli army. it says the classrooms in the bedroom community were built without a permit needed abraham reports of the 60 other schools. they have received similar demolition orders. and just the last few years it takes for him cabinet on 30 minutes to get to school every day. abraham is 9 years old

human rights as we can read in human rights watch report of a president. i said this started 1st to start doing political parties today he's threatening the judges by did solution offer their supreme additionally council and right now with these are be i'd be through a 30, assigning residency, he's really threatening at human rights that he's using these laws in order to go on with his opponent. i think this is a real threatening for human rights to day. bright human rights watch says the exceptional measures granted by the emergency decree of being a use abused by the a government which you seem to agree with who is being targeted specifically. i think he's opponent especially a, another party and also a kind of good tune is because as we can see, the people who are, who are under or where are right now are under average or be able to reach a sign of resilience, you know, who are people from cartoonist or not the bachelor like a p d. so especially he's a opponent from political parties as we know, president isaiah, who is without a political background, always condemned to a political parties of a corruption. so this is not a surprise to come to them and neither party and the 2 buddhist lo went to ex

in particular have suffered from years of insecurity, humanitarian crisis and human rights violations and abuses. this council and its members have the responsibility to work to resolve this conflict rather than yield to a new chapter which will inflict further misery on ukraine and its people. this is the time to show the courage to pull back from the precipice and return to dialogue and diplomacy. mr. president, we need to demonstrate our favorite in the value of diplomacy tonight. thank you. >> i thank the representative of ireland for her statement. i give the floor to the permanent representative of the united arab emirates. >> i would like to thank the undersecretary general for her updates and briefing. i would like to refer to the statement that the u.a.e. delivered in this chamber 17 february on the same subject and emphasize again the importance of deescalation and restraint that is maintained regional and international security and stability and we believe now is the time to engage curveball and in good favorite it might gate the impact on think civilians and civilian infrastructure and to chart a

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survey the obama administration senior senior director for multilateral affairs and human rights at the national security councilber grassley would you please introduce your two minority witnesses? >> they think general and pomper an ambassador sales for being here. thel general served as the 17th chief of staff of the u.s. air force as a member of the joint chiefs of staff. he provided military advice directly to to the present-day states and the secretary of defense and national security council. general jumper served as a uniformed air force officer responsible for more than 700,000 active duty guard reserve and civilian forces states andthe united overseas during the global war on terror. he oversaw the introduction of numerous air and space combat systems including unmanned aerial systems. we thank him for his 39 years in the military. ambassador sales as well as acting undersecretary for civilian security democracy and human rights that the state of our mint. and they presidential envoy to the global coalition to defeat isis with 83 member coalitions in efforts to ensure the lasting defeat of isis in the m

reagan in the white house, ralph neese, former executive director of the leadership council on civil and human rights, and pete peterson from the institute of public engagement at pepperdine university. let me say goodbye, have a great day, and a great week. thank you. >> thank you, everyone, it was terrific. thanks, bob. >>> book tv. every sunday on c-span2 features leading authors discussing their latest nonfiction books. at 4:25 p.m. eastern, a discussion about the u.s. election system with national review columnist john fund and the heritage foundation's hans von spakovsky. at 10:00 p.m. eastern on "after words," state senator will haskell on his book "100,000 first bosses" where he talks about becoming a state senator at age 22 and legislation he's worked on since being in office. he's interviewed by leyla zayden. watch book tv every sunday on c-span2 and find a full schedule on your program guide or watch online any time at booktv.org. >>> former governors christine going war and jim douglas talked about a recent report on how universities and colleges can foster expression and free speech and