except a trilateral negotiations with russia when both the ukraine and russia have requested it so i don't quite understand that all right we have thirty seconds left to alexander give you the last word of the program go ahead alexander london quickly we're not talking about the association agreements that the european union has with other countries we're talking about vis association agreement if the e.u. e.u. wants an association agreement with you with the ukraine which will work it has to be a workable the green and and it has to involve russia now this is simply elementary it's practical reality one can get on one's heart holes and argue otherwise but if all right merely gentlemen we have run out of time fascinating discussion many thanks to my guest today in london and brussels and here in moscow and thanks to our viewers for watching a few darkie see you next time and remember a profitable. legal . war is probably the most complex and difficult human activity. i. think a phenomenon of friendly fire probably extends back to the invention of gunpowder. but if you're a bunch of p

has demanded from the very beginning they have from the first point denied that there can be any trilateral negotiations and the ukraine both the government and a large amount of the people don't want to be forced to this bipolar cold war a choice they would prefer to maintain good relations with both which moscow has also suggested the political the politicizing the situation but the european union rather stubbornly refuses and so it's either our way or the highway yawn would you like to react to that because it looks like it's been. given a zero sum game here and it's mark rightfully pointed out if you go to eastern ukraine you'll feel like you're in russia you know why because they're ethnic russians yeah you know i think there are two things that i would like to react to the first one is that of course there's not a deep old western kind of position that everything that goes wrong in ukraine is russia cold that's the a very simplified way of putting the i'll go along with what was normally and sort of why you need to have it was really bloody on russia and it's very simple holding a ver

bilaterallye faster and we can move trilateral he. the problem for me, however, is that this bilateral initiative attention.cal it is rapidly running out of gas. is goingsee that there to be life in these agreements past 2014. maybe i am wrong. in order to maintain the political momentum and economic for the agreements that we have, we need to trilateral lice them. this is not the mexico of 1992. -- trilateralize them. this is not the mexico of 1992. mexico is one of the fastest- growing economies with a growing middle class and growing skills. they are our engine of growth for the region. they are an emerging market that is contestable. india are and interesting and important, but mexico is important. i want to focus on the focus of sme's. i argue that nafta was the agreement of big business. large companies lobbied hard to get these looked after. once those large barriers move out of the way, we lacked a business consensus which continued to push for progress and a deepening and a widening of the agreement. why? because these enterp

aid and you talk a little bit about bilateral cooperation and opportunities and trilateral. we mentioned the opportunities in education and had major successeses in the early 70s building project with brazil, making american and brazilian universities, sending dozens of brazilians masters in ph.d. training and they are running those institutions in agriculture and health and other areas. you alluded to agriculture, wondering about energy, environment, both infectious and endemic diseases. what opportunities for bilateral cooperation do you see? >> let's move to the next question? >> in bali, we saw great success at the wto lead very ably by a brazilian director-general. up until right before that success was singed, it looked as though some of the wto players with which brazil most aligned itself over the years would be the reason for the failure of the bali discussions. to what degree coming out of bali do you think that in fact brazil's view of its own deal economic and trade leadership is changing from one in which it is leader of the developing world to one in which it i

faster bilaterally then we can move trilateral he -- trilaterally. gas.t is running out of i don't see that there is going to be life in the agreement past 2014. maybe i'm wrong. i think it order to maintain the political momentum and the impetus for the agreement we -- trilateralt or ize them. fastests one of the growing economies with a growing middle-class. they are the engine of growth for the region. they are an emerging market. india are and interesting and important. but mexico is important. ofant to focus on the focus me's. i argue that nafta was the agreement of big business. barriers movege out of the way, we lack a business consensus which continued to push for progress and a deepening and a widening of the agreement. why? these enterprises are too busy to lobby on behalf of of new initiatives. also, the work that we need to of non-tariffrea barriers. inspections, things that are not joyously difficult out.ot what we need to do is reduce the transaction costs by getting rid of these nontariff barriers. some of them are small and medium-siz

in the paper that chris published, we recommend trilateralization. of the regulatory cooperation process. --forecessarily full heaven sakes we ought to have a , mexican representative attending some of the canadian meetings, and a canadian representative going to some of the mexican meetings. we need to find consensus where there is consensus on some of these initiatives to bring the sectors together. similarly, we would like to see that move forward with the border and initiatives. there are important issues to be considered in economic benefits that could be derived from rationalization and cooperation on our multiple borders. we are recommending harmony were where harmonization is possible. and the ambassador already outlined some the ways that we can do that. i will not go into detail, except to say that sitting at the same table is not the same as negotiating together. i think there has been a belief that canada and mexico are the bird in the hand. we got them. now we are going to get asia. we also recommend more intense focus on infrastructure,

except a trilateral negotiations with russia when both the ukraine and russia have requested it so i don't quite understand that all right we have thirty seconds left to alexander give you the last word of the program go ahead alexander london quickly we're not talking about the association agreements that the european union has with other countries we're talking about vis association agreement if the e.u. e.u. wants an association agreement with you with the ukraine which will work it has to be a workable the agreement and it has to involve russia now this is simply elementary it's practical reality one can get on one's heart holes and argue otherwise but if all right little going to gentlemen who have run out of time fascinating discussion many thanks to my guest today in london and brussels and here in moscow and thanks to our viewers for watching a few darkie see you next time and remember cross talk rules. that was a new alert animation scripts scare me a little. there is breaking news tonight and we are continuing to follow the breaking news. alexander's family cry tears of joy

he talked more about trilateral. he mentioned the opportunities in education and of course we've had major successes in the early 70s with the institution projects with herself linking universities and sending dozens of brazilians and then they've come back another run in those and agricultural health and other areas. you associate to agriculture. wondering about energy, environment, both infectious and endemic diseases. what opportunities for bilateral cooperation d.c.? >> let's move to the next question. yes, they are. >> house ways and means committee. in bali, we saw a great success at the wto favors plant director general. up until right before that success was singed, it looked as though some of the wto players with which brazil had most aligned itself over the years would be the reason for the failure of the bali discussions. to what degree coming out of bali do you think in fact brazil's view of its own geo-trade leadership is changing from one in which it is a leader of the developing world to one in which i

we have heard over the years about opportunities for trilateral cooperation between the united states and brazil and africa in sub-saharan africa. what are the prospects for some meat on the bones in terms of. investment, financing, industries like agriculture, infrastructure, health clinics i just wanted to hear your thoughts on that. >> thank you. it's great seeing you. there are lots of possibilities. in fact on the foreign assistance side we began our trilateral cooperation in an effort to eradicate malaria but i have extended that to mozambique where we are doing some important work on the public health side and also agricultural productivity side. but we are also working with the brazilians in honduras and in haiti on agricultural productivity and some other projects and this is brand-new for us and it's brand-new for brazilians. working through brazilian cooperation agency abc has really been an interesting and fruitful experience. it's a small agency. it's staffed largely -- are still doesn't have the cadres of development professional that one would imagine in that kind of an

>> we are involved in a trilateral story which is korea japan, and china all have interest in the south and east china sea. the koreans and the chinese are anti-japanese. that has held them together. the koreans and the chinese have some common interests in not having threats come out of north korea. there are different interests there, the chinese have their own interest about north korea which i don't think will get in the way of this. >> one of the sad stories is that the north koreans captured an 85-year-old tourist, made him engage in this phony confession. will he get out? >> i hope so. there are those that are making an effort. i have heard that he made this phony confession and there are those that believe that the fact that they did that means it is one of the ways that he might get out. >> let me switch to iran. you have been a supporter of the interim agreement on nuclear weapons. what do you tell israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu when he says that this is a mistake? >> i think that you tell him, and i gather that secretary kerry has been working on this and other lev

>> we are involved in a trilateral story which is korea japan, and china all have interest in the south and east china sea. the koreans and the chinese are anti-japanese. that has held them together. the koreans and the chinese have some common interests in not having threats come out of north korea. there are different interests there, the chinese have their own interest about north korea which i don't think will get in the way of this. >> one of the sad stories is that the north koreans captured an 85-year-old tourist, made him engage in this phony confession. will he get out? >> i hope so. there are those that are making an effort. i have heard that he made this phony confession and there are those that believe that the fact that they did that means it is one of the ways that he might get out. >> let me switch to iran. you have been a supporter of the interim agreement on nuclear weapons. what do you tell israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu when he says that this is a mistake? >> i think that you tell him, and i gather that secretary kerry has been working on this and other lev

you talk about bilateral cooperation and talk about trilateral and you mentioned the opportunities ineducation and we have had major successes from the early 1970's with brazil, linking american and brazilian universities. they have come back and now they are running those institutions in agriculture and health and other areas. you alluded to agriculture. i'm wondering about energy and environment. what opportunities for bilateral cooperation do you see? >> let's move to the next question. yes, there. >> i am with the house ways and means committee. in bali, we saw a great success led by a brazilian inspector general. right before that success was cinched, it looked as though some of the wto players would be the reason for the failure of the bali discussions. to what degree coming out of bali do you think that brazil's view of its own specifically trade leadership is changing from one in which it is a leader of the developing world to one in which it is a broker of some sort between the developing world and the developed world? >> let's come here. let's start with this. >> human right

and they argue to me that they can move faster bilaterally than we can move trilaterally. the problem for me, however, is that this bilateral initiative lacks political attention. it is rapidly running out of gas. i don't see that there is, that there's going to be life in these agreements past 2014. maybe i'm wrong. but i think that in order to maintain the political momentum and the economic impetus for the agreements that we have, we need to trilaterallize them. this is not the mexico of 1992. i think in canada in particular we tend to have outdated perceptions of who our southern trading partner is. mexico is now one of the fastest growing economies with a growing middle class, with growing skills, human resource capacities. they are our engine of growth for the region. they are an emerging market that is contestable -- yes, china and india are interesting and important, but mexico is a contestable emerging market in particular for the small and medium-sized enterprises. i want to focus just briefly in my remarks on the importance of smes. i argue that nafta and the ca

not capable of fulfilling yet oh so where does this leave the situation ukraine's proposals for trilateral talks with russia were rejected by the e.u. brussels finances may not allow them to increase the offer to kiev look at the european union massive ron paul employment throughout the course of the entire union they have a euro currency project which is a fiasco realistically the only thing the european union can try to do is keep blame storming anybody russia who cares because the european union is ultimately falling apart at the seams so a you depart to vilnius contemplating what might have been despite courting president on the coach they simply seemed unable to offer him a deal that was tempting enough scots vilnius lithuania. not just ukraine's government that was an assault on prospects for the e.u. more young people within the bloc joining far right wing movements which are often seen as offering an alternative to brussels policies saturday many of them took part in the we are the youth conference in the new capital capital activist ruben rossi a participated in a gathering in say

them, but all across asia, bilateral, trilateral regional negotiations by other countries. the question isn't whether we're going open the markets or not, either we're going to open them on our terms or other eople's terms and we're going to have to take their standards and their disciplines as a status quo. infinitely better for us to be able to set the standards and playing field so we can have a better chance to compete. > on that note, let's take questions from the audience from froman about trade? while you're thinking, i have one for you. the anti-china trade agreement. it's going to seek to address that the e problems united states has had with china's obligations and failure wto.dhere to the can you tell us what tpp will do that wto didn't do regarding china. everyone in this room has business in china. everyone in this room has dealt you these problems that brought to the wto? >> again, china is not part of tpp. lot of the issues i think people worry about with regard to china are not limited to china. is a mechanism for us to work together to try to figure the rig

over the years about opportunities for trilateral cooperation between the united states and rozelle and africa -- and brazil and sub-saharan africa. what are the prospects for some of the meat on the bones in terms of financing and trade investment, industries like agriculture, infrastructure, health. i just wanted to hear if thoughts on that. thank you. >> no, thank you. it is great seeing you. there are lots of possibilities. we began our trilateral cooperation in an effort to eradicate malaria but have extended that to mozambique, where we're doing some important work on the agricultural productivity side. we are working with the brazilian in honduras and haiti on some other projects. this is brand-new for us and for the brazilian. working through their brazilian cooperation agency has been an interesting and fruitful experience. it is a small agency. it is staffed largely --brazil does not have the hydrant of professionals that one would imagine in that kind of an agency but it is building them over time. we have created an interesting relationship where we have .xchange officers as

we're really looking forward to the second trilateral defense ministers meeting which will be hosted by mexico next year. be let's look at some of this international cooperation as it applies to europe, africa and the middle east. ladies and gentlemen, one of the best examples of canada-u.s. operation internationally is nato, a central alliance for both of our nations and a place where we work closely with our european allies to advance our shared global security interests. thanks to nato, canada, the u.s. and many of our allies had a racket call infrastructure to answer -- practical infrastructure to answer the requests of the arab league and the united nations to take actions over libya two years ago. and the nato structure allowed partners outside of the alliance -- particularly our arab league partners in this case -- to join us in this important mission. canadian armed forces were proud to assume operational command of the mission in libya, in addition to providing air and maritime support. the canadian contribution to the u.s. security coordinator for israel and the palestine a

samuel huntington, trilateral commission which saps the carter administration.ell, the conflict between these conceptions of democracy go as far back, back to the earliest modern democratic revolution in the 17th century england. that time, as you know there was a war breaching between supporters of the king and supporters of the parliament. that's the civil war we read about. but there is more. the men who call themselves none of this quality, they were told that the rabble who didn't want to be ruled by either change our parliament. like the spanish workers and 1830s six, neither side. they wanted to be ruled as if they had a literature and i wanted to be ruled by countrymen like ourselves that now our wants. there will never be a good world one night and gentlemen make us was that are chosen for fear and do better process and do not know the people soars. at a 17th century england. the essential nature of this conflict, which has far from ended was captured nicely by thomas jefferson in his later years when he has serious can and about both the quality and fa

relatively small number of false street numbers and bankers the these are quotes from the icon's the trilateral commission and that largely staffed the carter administration the conflict between these conceptions of democracy dose far back to the year latest revolution to seventh century england there was a war raging supporters of the king a as supporters of parliament. but there was more. said gentry of best quality were appalled by the rebel who did not want to be ruled by either taking or parliament like the spanish workers, and neither side but to be ruled with their literature by countrymen like ourselves. it will never be a good world while bites the in gentlemans are chosen for fear and oppress us but into not know their words. this 20th century england but the conflict far from ended from thomas jefferson he had serious concerns about the quality and the fate of the democratic experiment it made a distinction between aristocrats and democrats the wrist recaps are those whose trust the people and wished you drop all powers from adam into the hands of a higher class those that identify w