in india, our congressional delegation met with prime minister singh. i put the question to him, would he be willing to have a lem takes with the number of troops oned border which would eliminate pakistani troops to help us fight. prime minister singh said he would if the terrorists would be stopped from coming into india as they blew up the hotel in mumbai more than a year ago. so there are many things to be done. our congressional delegation visited in syria. i have visited the mideast almost every year during my ten your i -- during my tenure in te senate. very much concerned about the security of israel ands. and in the visits that i've had to syria, i've gotten to know bashir assad and his president hafez el-assad. i have made many trips to syria because i believe that syria is the key to the peace process there. syria wants the return of the golah and only israel could decide whether israel wants to give back the golah. but it is a different era today than it was in 1967 when the gvment ogolan. only israel can decide that for itself. if israel co

a meeting of wen jiabao, look, jacob zuma and manmohan singh.that group did break the political deadlock. and reached an agreement. which broke through a failed expectations in terms of funding and reduction commitments and the conflict between the u.s. and the key developing countries over the verification. the agreement included a 2-degree target, a significant step beyond what had ever been in the kyoto protocol but excluded the implementation of that target through 50% reduction in global emissions and 85% reduction in industrialized countries emissions. it included commitments by all of the major sources of emissions north and south remarkable but when you add those of the are not nearly enough to achieve the to degree target, real attention there. it included provisions for verification of implementation of those commitments. countries have to provide background information and respond to questions. it reflected progress that had been made on a set of key issues ranging from reduced deforestation to technology to adaptation funding but did