mr. meeks. >> thank you, madam chairman. it's always a delight to have you before us. i just want to say on behalf of all of the government what a splendid job you're doing. i have three questions that i'm going to try to ask you in the time that we have alotted. one, about our complex relationship with russia which i believe presents a significant accomplishments, challenges and opportunities and our areas of disagreement are sometimes profound and frustrating multilateral efforts to confront threats of life in syria and iran. notably, the cold war is behind us and the united states and russia are no longer eyeball to eyeball but fingers posed over red buttons that would release arsenals at one another and we are elbow to elbow at the conference table which is a good thing. will you comment on your priorities and the strategy with respect to russia? you may know or may not know that i am particularly interested in expanding trade and economic relationship with russia. which in the year ahead, i hope will be a good news story for the united states. secondly, turkey con