then you go into negotiations. >> yes. >> you will still come back for approval on negotiations. we are giving that person -- >> the exclusive right to negotiate. >> we want to negotiate with them. >> that is exactly right. >> if the deal i bring before you, you cannot approve it -- you can not approve it. i want to come with the deal that i know will be approved because i don't want you to say now. -- no. [laughter] it does not fit that it is of -- it is really a hybrid. they were an existing tenant. a very cooperative tenant in good standing. what i did is, what tools and mechanisms do i have to fully vet this? it is retail. we are in the public arena. have it very above-board and open, and open process. i chose, let's do a retail leasing policy. >> perhaps i could make a suggestion. given all the circumstances, we have talked about that. we appreciate it being brought forward and the uniqueness of the situation. perhaps we could have some briefing once negotiations are under way, perhaps we could get an update brought to us in some fashion to give us a sense before are weighin

it took a while to negotiate. i understand that you probably wished it should have started six months prior, so that the time would not have lapsed so much. supervisor chu: i think that on a larger point, whether it is property or different that is owned and managed by different entities, there are city departments and properties that have fallen into the jurisdiction of real-estate. it would be interesting for us to get a sense of how many leases, amongst other things, are currently out there, understanding what our plan is to address this. i see a lot of identification and items coming before the committee, but they are retroactive, and the board is also asking why things come to us later. sometimes it is our process, but sometimes it sounds like a negotiating issue, a problem, or something else that happens. i think we need a better understanding of that. supervisor kim? supervisor kim: i want to reiterate that as well. it is an issue with an item that comes to us later. if there is a system in place where ther

can negotiate either. and what's clear from the discussion we're having is that there's already a significant critical mass of countries that want to go further in liberalizing trade and services. and i think that those countries including the u.s. and the e.u. should be able to have that conversation. i'm very optimistic about the ability of the global trading system to walk and chew gum at the same time. or the decades, we have seen the ability of discussions to take place in multiple forum that complement each other. when i first started working in washington 20 years ago, i can remember the panic in some of the academic world that nafta would be the death nail of the multilateral trading system. and, of course, what happened a year after we concluded the nafta is that we concluded the long-stalled -- i think there's a lot of capacity for agreements to have a positive synergy between each other. one of the other things we've frequently seen is using these bilateral and plurallateral discussions as a lab

-- the 638 number is a negotiator number. i think the port went into that negotiation with the fact that they had missed, if you will, the six months of 2010. supervisor chu: thank you. just to follow up -- and supervisor kim: i thin -- and i think her point is a good one. if there is an automatic rate increase that goes into effect, does this lead to the same position? >> yes. supervisor chu: ok. why don't we go to public comment? are there members of the public who wish to speak on this item, item number eight? seeing none, public comment is closed. colleagues? do we have a motion to send the item forward with recommendations? ok. thank you for the presentation and for being your. we will send the item for word. >> thank you. are there other items before us? >> no. beckham please the agenda. >> thank you. we are adjourned. >> the next time you take a muni bus or train, there could be new technology that could make it easier to get to your destination. many are taking a position of next bus technology now in use around the c

so my goal is to negotiate one that will allow the u.s. to ratify it. >> yes, please. >>> gentleman and then we'll go to you. >> my name's ryan with gw. and i had a couple questions. earlier, miss stohl mentioned legitimate arms transfers. i was wondering what you define or anyone as a legitimate one. the u.s. has end use monitoring through a couple different programs. that could be maybe considered very legitimate. additionally, there's a lot of -- i mean, if it's self-regulated and it's not enforced, i mean, what kind of states will have incentive not to the actually report whatever might not be deemed legitimate? and then the last one is, as far as the cipriot method ol, is it like the payment, is it like the contract being signed or is it being delivered? because some contracts will have an opt out clause and it may never occur. >> rachel first and then paul. >> i'm going to take them in reverse order. so i think the point you just raised about are you talking about authorizations or actual physical transfers? that's still to be determ

usually in a negotiation situation if there is a concession given prior to negotiations, it usually tends to create good will and a better atmosphere and a higher likelihood of success. but i fear simply not realistic. and i think there is a tendency on the iranian side and a tendency on this side, this is a mutual tendency, in reading the other side's intentions and moves in the worst possible way. so obama comes and completely changes the language of the united states, and the overwhelming argument and sentiment in iran is, well, that's nice, but it's not enough because we still don't trust you. and it dose back to the idea are you willing to take a greater risk for peace than you're willing to take for just maintaining the status quo? the same is true over here. when the iranians actually agreed to the deal between turkey and brazil, the argument was, well, they just did that to avoid sanctions. yes, that's probably true. but also the purpose of the sanctions was to get them back to the negotiating table. what is it that we value the most, actually getting them to give up the leu or im

they're negotiating the timing and modalities. and so the expectation is that should happen before too long. and finally, on swift, i'm not the expert. and i certainly wouldn't want to get into a matter of technical interest that the treasury department is more expert on, but obviously, this is a positive step. it is one in a series of positive steps that have increased the pressure on the iranian banking and financial system in a way that i think is having real impact, real negative impact. >> thank you, madam ambassador. thank you, madam chairman. >> mr. dan. >> madam chairman. madam ambassador-b g. to be with you. just following up on representative cole's comments, i was one of the few folks on my side of the aisle to support the administration's retroactive action in libya on the house floor. i thought it was the correct thing to do. obviously, i had some questions about how we conducted the operation but i thought it was the right thing to do. but in that situation we had u.n. support obviously, nato support, arab league sup

in other words, during this war they're constantly negotiations or negotiations for negotiations. in the north vietnamese mind, the more you're negotiating the harder you fight. for this this indicated serious any ns. when you're negotiating you fight harder to put pressure and maybe you get more of a deal. now the military struggle element of this is of course very, very critical. you have the conventional as well as unconventional efforts. when vietnam is divided in 1954 the north vietnamese leave behind probably 10 or 15,000 supporters that become the cadre, the leadership for the vc. you have different numbers from different books. they rarely agree, unfortunately. now they prepared for the new war in 1959 by infiltrating into the south tens of thousands of other south vietnamese who come north in 1954 to get training. again, all of these guys become the leadership for the insurge begins si in the south. they expand the plaf, people's liberation armed forces which is what we call the vc. they build this vc. the communists are very good at organizing things. they organize the v

in >>> we would want to see it n we negotiate a lease terms. take a that was part of our due diligence that we see his pro forma. we have a lot of that information that helped us make our decision to come and ask you to go forward. >> he could have been bought out and told 202until 2023? we get not only the base rent but a percentage -- >> it is based rand vs percentage. -- base rent vs percentage. we could consider that. >> i thought it looked pretty good. [laughter] >> it is currently 11 years. he is asking for an extra 10 years? >> correct. >> if he would assume the current lease as is, that is what he is requesting, an extension of the lease? >> correct. usually in the other percentage of rent transactions it is based grant verses percentage. its 7% of the gross revenue is 50,000 a month, then that would exceed the base rent of 20,000 that would be set at the beginning of the lease. >> take the terms that are proposed as both. >> these are all proposals. >> what i am getting at is this is a unique situation where that if the properties impr

exit strategy came today with the taliban suspended negotiations with us to pull mounts in order to end the civil war in afghanistan a power sharing deal with. the taliban must be worked out but taliban leaders walked away from the table claiming that the u.s. keeps changing the terms of the negotiations so after a decade of war both sides are reaching a tipping point and you gallup survey shows that half the nation our nation wants the u.s. troop withdrawal date currently scheduled for two thousand and fourteen pushed up but as though all of this turmoil on the ground in afghanistan isn't happening president obama and our top ally in the war british prime minister david cameron reiterated their commitment to the current we are all time why. do i think we can get to a situation by the end of twenty fourteen where we have a larger afghan national army a larger afghan police fools both of which are pretty much on track and that with the afghan government they're capable of taking care of their own security in a way that doesn't require large numbers of foreign troops and that country isn'

and that's why as the administration was trying and failing to negotiate a way iran's nuclear program, members of both parties in the house and senate came together and began to put in place a sanction strategy directed at iran's petroleum sector. many in this room strongly supported this effort and made it quite clear that you did despite the administration's reluctance to embrace it. but congress urging and yours, the president did reluctantly sign the comprehensive iran sanctions accountability and divestment act into law on july 1, 2010. [ applause ] but make no mistake with this legislation. with this legislation congress handed the president a tool that he did not seek. a tool he did not ask for. last year i worked to strengthen these sanctions with an amendment to the defense authorization act which sanctions foreign banks for doing business with the central bank of iran. this amendment became the basis for a negotiation with the obama administration on how best to sanction iran without causing a shock to global oil markets. senator marc kur, who is unfortunately not able to be

if you could wind into the dynamics of negotiated between at camp david. you feel that given the current updates -- debate, if you had a democratically electable leaders, you would still be able to conclude the peace between israel and palestinians? >> probably not, because probably of motions would have complicated the process, so it took leaders from both sides to strike a deal. you have a point. the fact is the experience of the iranians in the '20s century we did a 20th-century in the west was not a pleasant -- the experience of the iranians and the 20th century was not that pleasant for them. we played a role but alienated a good portion of the politically active iranian public. this is not a case to justify it. i was engaged with an attempt your address the challenge, and my answer was to impose martial law when undertake broad reforms and concessions, but it was the other way around. but was not tried. those who argued made the argument explicitly that he was the gondi of iran, is something that has not been brought up by five, so we are at a dilemm

it is designed to negotiate steep staircases. and it can wade into pool of water about three centimeters deep and work even under dripping water. >> translator: i hope the robot will help reduce the exposure of nuclear plant workers to radiation. >>> an earthquake that jolted a nation. a tsunami that swallowed a coastline. a nuclear plant that spiraled out of control. japan marks the first anniversary of the march 11th disaster. what lessons have been learned? find out on our special program "lessonses of march 11th one year on" sunday 2:00 p.m. only on nhk world. >>> israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu says iran must quit it nuclear program. he says time is running out and all options are on the table including military action. netanyahu spoke in washington at a pro-israel conference. his country has threatened to launch a preemptive strike on iran's nuclear facilities. >> we've waited for diplomacy to work. we've waited for sanctions to work. none of us can afford to wait much longer. >> netanyahu referred to concerns an

you mentioned a bilateral investment treaty needs to be negotiated. will we more likely or less likely get that treaty with or without pntr in russia? >> thank you. first of all, i'd like to say that i do think that the two corporate leaders who just spoke have organizations that have shown themselves to be very serious about overseas corruption. and they have frankly very fine track records. we're privileged to be able to work with them on some of these issues. secondly, senator kyl mentioned in his remarks that russia, as you did too, chairman baucus, ranks very, very low on some of t that orruption perception there is a widespread view among international business leaders and others that this is a serious problem in russia. third, i think it's a good thing that russia has decided to become a member of the oecd anti-bribery convention, and has passed the law. they won't necessarily implement that instantly. a lot of western european countries did. but it's a very good start that they're trying to discipline theiry. many, many observers say there is

are we going to make that public or do quiet negotiations on that? >> i think i smarter for us to be pressing on the sanctions and negotiations while we keep our objective of no new nuclear capability instead of bench marks publicly. >> i want to thank you not strutting your stuff and delivering on the steak and not worry about the sizzle. >> my colleague, wise man for staying around. >> thank you. i learned from the best, you. madam secretary, thank you so much for being here today. as you know, recently we marked the 14th anniversary of of the february 24th shootdown of brothers to the rescue airplanes. as you know four americans were murdered over international airspace by the castro dictatorship. subsequent to those murders, the u.s. congress and then president clinton signed and passed into law the helms burton bill, which has never been fully implemented as you well know because of a provision that allows a waiver or suspension every six months to that law for implementation of that law. and that suspension i believe takes place around every ja

they went to the negotiations. the first day of the negotiations was spent on trying to cut the french out of the deal. >> jon: right. >> which i think there are sympathies amongst the other issues. >> jon: nobody likes the french. i think that's a given. >> even enemies can agree, nobody likes the french. >> they failed at doing that but at the end of it they had an issue because they felt that the risk was more on their shoulders. but the real issue was the iranian political-- political a let at the time was at war with itself because of the fraudulent sections a few months yerler, massive human right as because,. iran was not in a position to negotiate. they mess tdz up. but six months later we have an opening. >> jon: that is the brazil tur kae one. >> exactly. >> jon: and that was based on oh, we're running out of-- you can stick around. >> absolutely. >> jon: we're going stick around. it's based on the remember that obama sent to brazil this is in the something they did on their own. they were doing it at the

but it's a negotiation. and the negotiation has to be resolved by the two parties most affected. >> i totally agree with you, madam secretary. thank you for that reclarification. and i appreciate it. i'd just like to make a notation on my original point about the azores. there's a base there that is of strategic importance to us. it's really more appropriate to bring up with the secretary of defense. but i'll share it since i have this opportunity today. our base at trasada in the azores is critical and is being -- the totality of the things that are coming to pass, the potential closing of ponta delgada and the visa situation is having a view within that sphere of -- that we don't care any longer. i raise the issues in combination because i think it will strain relations. >> thank you so much, mr. cardoza. >> mr. mccaul? the vice chair of the subcommittee in the southern mi >> thank you, madam chair. recently i led a delegation to it was very, very interesting. we had a sit-down meeting with president zarda

enter into negotiations. all in favor? resolution no. 1218 is approved. thank you. >> item number 11a, request approval of business terms for proposed sixth amendment to lease l-11320 with bae systems in francisco should prepare for a portion of pier 70 plan area and authorization of executive director to negotiate and enter into the proposed six amendments. and >>> we have been working on this project with terry and peter daily in the engineering division. i want to welcome the general manager of bae san francisco ship repair, the ship repair partner with whom we are working on the project. i will invite you to speak when we are done. as the commission knows, this project, pier 70 power site project, a rose out of the city's efforts to secure a clearance under the california environmental quality act for the cruise terminal project at pier 27, and the america's cup, and it was really through a very rigorous progress -- process led by the planning department that we identified some project early significance in air quality impact associated with the proje

something negotiated very quickly. we are hopeful negotiations can be launched very soon. >> i would agree with jennifer that mixing non-tariff barriers to trade with the tariff reductions is an unnecessarily confusing step. however, i see an explosion of the number of cases which is an indication of the tip of the iceberg. those are difficult cases and i would suggest there are many more instances of barriers than there are cases. this is a real problem and it is a problem that does not address one half of the room verses the other half of the room. it addresses all of the room verses all of the rest of the room. i was unable to because of the complexity, talk about reached. my concern debt european reach regulation which is creating a barrier to less. we manufacture finished goods in that united states and would like to import them into europe. now they are being regarded as chemical mixtures and we need to become suddenly an expert in the chemical raw materials to be able to register those materials that are qualifi

now, i understand that the negotiations now, dr. miller, have moved to the department of defense from the state department, i think that's a wise decision. i understand also from comments made by secretary panetta yesterday, that these transfers are now on hold because, as some of us suspected, it now -- the administration does not have confidence that the qatar government is going to be capable to living up to the requirements we put on them for these five individuals. my question to both of you is, do you think that the release of these five individuals to the taliban, even under the conditions that are being discussed, is a wise move when you consider the rate of recidivism that we know to be about 27%, and when we particularly know that these are five leaders of the taliban who have previously been declared to be too dangerous to be released and are likely to re-enter the fight. dr. miller, i would like your comments, please. >> senator, the department of defense and secretary panetta support process of reconciliation or efforts

by 17 signals% negotiations had to take place. october 1st, 2009, for the first time joining five permanent members of the security council to meet in geneva to discuss the adr. fortunately the iranians showed interest and agreed in principle on the fuel swap in degree to have a meeting in october. then that on the 20th on the technical level that negotiation to place. the a deal was russians take the premium turn into a 20% of french turned into fuel pads and nine to 12 months later the iranians get the fuel pad for the reactor in time before they run out of fuel. here is whether problems began. this on iraq because they up a strategic asset without giving up anything in return. the significant doubt and mistrust not just from the west became a difficult proposition. instead they have the idea instead of giving up all leu at once but into were three batches. and then they would provide the fuel back. on a technical level these fuel pads cannot be bought at k-mart. it takes time to work out. no existing stockpiles so it could not

if there's a successful negotiation, the most likely outcome of a successful negotiation is that there would be some limited level of enrichment left on iranian soil, obviously on very, very strict inspections. that in and of itself the israeli would permit iran to become a virtual nuclear power, which would shift the balance in the region, would have many of the negative repercussions that israelis fear would exist if iran had the actual bomb. differentiation between these two scenarios is far less in the israeli perspective than it is in the american perspective. the bush administration adopted red line of zero enrichment essentially identical to that of the current israeli government. obama has kept this issue quite vague and ambiguous. there's actually no statement from president obama until today in which he clarifies what his position is. there's no statement enrichment is unacceptable, nor is there a statement enrichment will be acceptable. this has fueled fears on all sides. on the israeli side there is the fear this ambiguity is masking an american desire to accept enrichment

and president karzai does not want to negotiate with that. but the recent fate of it created a widespread anger in afghanistan and it's hard for the taliban to continue talks with the united states. there are reports that many taliban field commanders were angry at the continuation of talks. this could be an effort to keep the unity of their movement within afghanistan. >> thank you very much for your insight. belgium is holding a national day of mourning on friday toing the bus crash in switzerland on tuesday. a minute silence will be observed at 11:00 and flags will be at half mass. eight of theless severely wouldn'ted children who had been released from hospitals are now back home in belgium. in all 24 passengers survived. some are still in a critical condition. while earlier a memorial was hold the remember the 22 children and six adults who died in the accident. christian reports from zit zerland. -- switzerland. >> incomprehensive that such a fun holiday could end this way. >> the mountain village of st. luke has been welcoming this gro