, economic and political relations between turkey and kurdistan are outstanding. you have better relationships than baghdad does. they have better relationships with amman, they have better relationships. so long as turkey proceeds, ambassador, whether rightly or wrongly, so long as turkey perceives that there is a developing baghdad access, it could well, not today, maybe not tomorrow, but not 25 or 30 years from now either, it might well accommodate itself to a state between it and a greater iran. >> it's also on business engagement as well, and perhaps i could ask the emboss door to address that one. >> there's ongoing dialogue that proceeded the security agreement, what are the legal protections that the u.s. military needs to continue the training program under the f.m.s. and what's still outstanding from the programs in terms of our assistance to the iraqis. i'm just going to leave it to the lawyers. i will tell you this has been a subject of many discussion between state and defense at various levels, but i frankly just am not up to speed on what the curren

but he also recognizes i believe the value to the population of iraqi kurdistan of the unity of iraqand the risks moved towards subornation pos. you could talk about the revenues, but for example that is an obvious one and people can talk about how fast it would take to replace the $11 billion of the federal budget, but the other thing is the kurdistan regional parties have right now a jury strong reliance with some of the sunni politicians and the would be at risk in the case of a referendum given the speed internal boundaries. we made it clear to the president that we understand the concerns, that we are committed to promoting the fulfillment of the long november 2010 committed to the constitutional arrangement that we use our influence to promote adherence to the constitutional arrangement but we you're doing this in a policy that is rooted in our strong support for iraq's unity under the federal system. >> one or two additional words, the problem isn't a referendum, he can hold the referendum any time he likes and we know what the results are going to be. the problem is recogniti

resource joint venture it's owned by both north and south we have the same scenario in iraq with kurdistan it's almost identical so there's got to be some sort of sitting around the table and getting together because south sudan has one big issue it is totally landlocked so it requires the cooperation of the north to put the pipeline through to the red sea and export the product so without that you've got a viable market anyway it's interesting how you bring in the global implications here you mentioned china a few minutes ago there are worries that in case of a war between both sudan's it could ultimately split the un security council particularly between the us russia and china we know that china is the biggest consumer of sudanese that oil is there a real danger here of global implications do you think. yes i come back to the term the new world order because unknown to most people you've also got to understand in the background of all this of course is the israelis because the israelis have carried out air strikes in should and before show that show there's another lien the new world or

. >> the president of kurdistan is in town. he is to meet with a deputy secretary. why is he not meeting with the secretary? >> he is being posted by the vice president, and in this building he will have a chance to talk to the deputy secretary. >> on iran, the expectation that there will be talks next month? do you have any clarity -- if that has been nailed down? >> we are where we were yesterday, that we have made a proposal, we think it is appropriate, and we are awaiting iranian confirmation. >> there was a statement from a russian official criticizing u.s. funding on democracy. does -- does the united states have anything new to say to these charges? >> would call your attention to the interview the secretary gave to cnn over the weekend. we put out the transcript yesterday, where she spoke clearly about our support for russians' rights to work to speak openly about their interest in more freedom, democracy, more transparency, more openness. we have as the secretary affirmed proposed to congress the creation of a new fund to empower russians in civil society,

there's so much chaos, the violence is getting worse in iraq, they're talking about kurdistan breakingxious to go into iran, all this nation building going on. no, i want to get out thereof. there's no benefit whatsoever -- >> it's a consistent part of the libertarian philosophy that the foreign issues -- in other words, if we're going to have all these expenses overseas, we have to seed certain expenses at home to pay for it. >> there's a civil liberties component to it. it doesn't help with national defense. >> it doesn't help our national defense? >> one second. in this current campaign i get more money than all the other candidates put together. so my foreign policy is what is attractive to the military. >> you said it doesn't help our national defense to be in all these places. why not? >> because of the blowback phenomenon. we go over -- how can it help us building more and more enemies? how can it help us by saying we're occupying your country. i like to tell people look at this this way, what if anybody did to us what we do to other countries, we march in, we put our troops nsh

the president of the kurdistan regional government gave an interview to the london-based paper. it was reported in english. he said iraq is moving toward a catastrophe, a return