the water on minna, utility relocation. the freemont water relocation outside of 301 mission. just to give you an idea, some of the coordination we had to go through. this is first street. this was during the holiday moratorium, so there was a lot of successful work that got done in that period. the demo contractor, 27,000 hours. of that, 97% had been filled by local labor. we are starting to begin work with these helicopters -- the subcontractors. the next big thing that you will see if you come by the site next week is a crushing operation near mission street outside of our offices. that will start to supply ballast material. we project by early march, late february, we will be down to the ground and into the basement of all the buildings. so we are pretty close on track, allowing some of the issues we had with abatement work we addressed earlier. utility time line. those packages were released last month by the board and they are getting started this month. that is it for me, unless i can answer any questions. >> great. now that concludes my report. director ford: thank you

minna jÄrvanpaÄ has worked extensively in the balkans including two years with the u.s.sion in kosovo and holds a degree from the london school of economics from harvard university. a second speaker is minister at 17. we are privileged to have them. currently it distinguished professor at the national defense university and formerly served as the interior minister and afghanistan from 2002-2005. prior to that he has lots of experience in counterinsurgency. quite active as a military planner for the afghan resistance following the soviet invasion of afghanistan and prior to that served as a colonel in the afghan army. graduated from high command and staff colleges in afghanistan, the united kingdom, and the u.s. and is the author of numerous books and articles on the political, military, and security situation in afghanistan to be our third panelist is dr. nixon, currently coordinating a product -- process. basically he is doing research on the whole issue of how do we -- issues around the durable peace in afghanistan and in particular trying to map out the interest that

minna jÄrvanpaÄ has worked extensively in the balkans including two years with the u.s.ission in kosovo and holds a degree from the london school of ecomics from harvard university. a second speaker is minister at 17. we are privileged to have them. currently it distinguished professor at theational defense university and formerly served as the interior minister and afghanistan from 2002-2005. prior to that he has lots of experience in counterinsurgency. quite active as a military planner for the afghan resistance following the soviet invasion of afghanistan and prior to that served as a colonel in the afghan army. graduated from high command and staff colleges in afghanistan, the united kingdom, and the u.s. and is the author of numerous books and articles on the political, military, and security situation in afghanistan to be our third panelist is dr. nixon, currently coordinating a product -- process. basically he is doing resarch on the whole issue of how do we -- issues around the durable peace in afghanistan and in particular trying to map out the interest that var

so i would just conclude by saying that maybe in addition to minna's arguments about the need to open process and with the shape that might look like, the u.s. is involved in has to be underpinned by a clear and strong commitment to that process. to my mind this means we need to articulate within unisys a couple of things. one is a durable political summit among active actors within afghanistan is possible. and secondly that such an uncommon is essential to sustain the meeting the president's core aim to prevent the recurrence of al qaeda and other groups to the region. if those two realizations can be made it becomes more obvious that using diplomatic means to seek a diplomatic process that is durable within afghanistan will be the most effective way to do much, much more with much less both in terms of blood and treasure than a policy that only emphasizes the escalation followed by hand over to a very shaky regime at this overtime will much better secure the long-term national security interest of the united states as well as the interests of the parties within afghanistan. thank yo

minna jÄrvanpaÄ has worked extensively in the balkans including two years with the u.s.ission in kosovo and holds a degree from the london school of economics from harvard university. a second speaker is minister at 17. we are privileged to have them. currently it distinguished professor at the national defense university and formerly served as the interior minister and afghanistan from 2002-2005. prior to that he has lots of experience in counterinsurgency. quite active as a military planner for the afghan resistance following the soviet invasion of afghanistan and prior to that served as a colonel in the afghan army. graduated from high command and staff colleges in afghanistan, the united kingdom, and the u.s. and is the author of numerous books and articles on the political, military, and security situation in afghanistan to be our third panelist is dr. nixon, currently coordinating a product -- process. basically he is doing research on the whole issue of how do we -- issues around the durable peace in afghanistan and in particular trying to map out the interest tha

so i would just conclude by saying that maybe in addition to minna's arguments about the need to opened in has to be underpinned by a clear and strong commitment to that process. to my mind this means we need to articulate within unisys a couple of things. one is a durable political summit among active actors within afghanistan is possible. and secondly that such an uncommon is essential to sustain the meeting the president's core aim to pr