he tried to figure out how the usaid budget fits in. i had the idea that we should coordinate all lot of what we were doing -- i picked four countries that needed to have coordinated aid in order to use the various parts of the american department will system to coordinate aid to those countries. secretary clinton came out with a qddr, which is an interesting document in terms of keeping the staff together. i did not know where you did that secretary kerry is lukewarm on it. it does not have to be every year. ano think it provides interesting infrastructure. i would not make the assumption based on what i know -- he is just getting started. one has to wait to see what the approach is. >> the very last question. >> [inaudible] i wanted to ask you about, with 2014 approaching and u.s. troops withdrawn from afghanistan, as well as the rise of islamic party is in much of the arab world, one thing that is greatly concerning is the rights of women. what remarks would your share? >> i never went to afghanistan when i was in office, but i did m

so, it was an educational process of how to move forces and yet support usaid and the role of the country team and port au prince. so, it was very informative there. and to back up when we had the first no fooling hurricane that worked its way up the entire gulf coast, the principal committee calls that were generated during the haiti response were then turned around and then bringing all of the governors into a conference call with the president to make sure that all their needs were being met in the advance of a hurricane arrival. so, we really had all of government, from local all the way up to the white house, fully included in that response. but the haiti response was certainly informative in bringing all these disparate entities together to provide unity of effort during a response. >> we need general spiese. >> okay, thanks. i would offer a little bit from an institutional perspective at the tactical level in the marine corps. that's an area where we could use some improvement. our forces deployed to the western pacific certainly understand this, and they pass it on among themselve

so, it was an educational process of how to move forces and yet support usaid and the role of the country team and port au prince. so, it was very informative there. and to bacp

there's not usaid -- that's no usaid involvement in chad at this time. do you see that change sunrise anyny comments there? >> there is in fact a usaid representative at democracy and governance officer paid by usaid who there is full time and a member of the embassy staff. and he has done a universally well regarded job in terms of pursuing the ongoing usaid efforts there. there hasn't been a usaid mission in chad since then '9s. there's been only the low level representation, and that decision resides with usaid in terms of goals and objectives and also with the finding that is available. my personal view -- i stress it's my personal view -- is that chad right now offers optimal opportunity for what a usaid mission can provide. that would help shape and empower the government of chad to pursue its goals of gotchance, help sport the capacities engamement which is necessary tone sure that its economic development proceed as quickly as possible. diversify its capacity to participate in the world economy and fundamentally improve the management of its oil

settling in the occupied territories or otherwise present israeli military forces why do so that's what usaid does in other words going to the palestinians most of them see you argued that u.s. administrations have used corrupt language to manipulate the israeli palestinian track but is that the hallmarks for the u.s. foreign policy for that entire region or is it just exclusive to the israel palestine issue well i mean i think this kind of language is not exclusive to this conflict or to the united states i think. i was thinking that through without what i was reading i get it i get i can think of many many instances i think that the arab israeli conflict and especially the palestinian israeli component of it which is the core is particularly susceptible to mis making and to language which is really fundamentally false i mean israel is a democratic and a jewish state where there are all kinds of rights that are denied to non jews so how much can it be democratic but we say it's a democratic state to be are we with other countries for i understand that but those those critiques i think if you

with the same law kennedy founded usaid the u.s. organization responsible for international development which would administer civilian foreign aid. is. the u.s. government for spreading the american foreign policy through human kind. systems. during the cold war large quantities of food were sent to countries of strategic importance to the united states like india indonesia and pakistan. likewise large cargoes were sent to eastern asia during the korean and vietnam wars. during the seventy's a large bulk of food aid went to the middle east. during the ninety's after the fall of the berlin wall today it was directed to countries the former eastern bloc the same pattern was repeated in afghanistan and iraq during the war on terror. if you have took aboard diplomacy it's a very subtle way of pushing a national agenda. to another country you know because if you if you've seen even more so because of training elephants for their training in japan since they use food in that if you don't train much but you can dance like a human being yo

there is no usaid involvement at this time. dues see that changing?>> there is a the usaid officer that is there full-time as a member of the embassy staff. p has been a well-regarded job in terms of pursuing a usaid efforts. there has and then a mission in in chad but the representation and that ultimately besides with usaid with goals and objectives and the funding available. my personal view is that offers a optimal opportunity with the usaid mission can provide. to help shape and empower the government of chad to help support the capacity which is necessary to ensure the economic development proceed as quickly as possible, a diversified and participate in the world economy and the world resources that remain a pillar of its economy. >> thank you for your desire to serve in this way. >> i welcome the witnesses and ambassador night, congratulations on your many years of service. , ambassador jones come i thank you for your ears as well. we had a good meeting in my office. ambassador jones, a quick glance of the headlines at libya the past several da

according to the law usaid is allowed to procure up to seventy five percent american products and transport them only on american ships. and that means that the shippers have a lot of interest in food aid policy and have been an incredibly effective lobby to fight for the status quo of sourcing in and shipping from the united states the u.s. government is the only government in the world that hasn't made substantial movements in the direction of enabling local procurement of food aid in developing countries in order to respond faster and more cheaply to food emergencies as they arise. so even today the food must first be balt then loaded on a ship in american harbor and then travel for several months in order to reach africa. that would be approximately four to six months from when it has been termed that we want to participate in in a particular appeal and so when the food arrives. the g.a.o. where mr alito works issued a report which presented the problem to congress president bush tried to change the system so that a portion of the food would be procured from local markets and arrive fas

i do not speak for beth from the usaid side. fiscal yearin 2012, we received from congress $248 million for merida. 2013, we year received $199 million. thousand 14,ar two we have requested $148 million. ,he number is going down precisely as you suggested it should. from my perspective, it is going down in a predictable and systematic way that i can plan against as opposed to having a surprise out there. 's standpoint, we are transitioning out of several sectors in order to be able to focus and concentrate on merida and global climate change. we are getting out of health. we have gotten out of the health sector in mexico. we are transitioning out of higher education and private sector competitiveness. thisunding requests on development assistance account have gone down steadily from $34 million in fy 12 down to $23 million in fy 13. we see ourselves going down to $12 million in fy 14. we are in sync with your observation about the mexican government being able to fill in that space and lead their own development path. >> you kno

according to the law usaid is allowed to procure up to seventy five percent american products and transport them only on american ships. and that means that the shippers have a lot of interest in food aid policy and have been an incredibly effective lobby to fight for the status quo of sourcing in and shipping from the united states the u.s. government is the only government in the world that hasn't made substantial movements in the direction of enabling local procurement of food aid in developing countries in order to respond faster and more cheaply to food emergencies as they arise. so even today the food must first be balt then loaded on a ship in american harbor and then travel for several months in order to reach africa. that would be approximately four to six months from when it has been termed that we want to participate in in a particular road appeal and so when the food arrives. did she.

and you try to figure out how the usaid budget fits in. i, at a certain stage, actually had the idea that we should coordinate a lot of what we were doing, and i picked four countries that needed to have kind of coordinated aid in order to use the various parts of the american, um, departmental system to coordinate aid to those countries. and then, um, anne marie slaughter and secretary clinton came out with the qddr which i think is a really interesting document in terms of bringing this tough together. i do, i don't know where you get that secretary kerry is lukewarm on it. i haven't heard that. i do think that it is not, it doesn't have to be done every year, quadrennial. and i do think it provides an interesting infrastructure. but i would not make the assumption based on what i know, um, you know, he's just getting started. and so i think one has to wait to see what the approach is. >> very last question. um, hamid? >> madam secretary -- [inaudible] and a fellow, and i wanted to ask you, ma'am, about with 2014 approaching and u.s. tro

according to the law usaid is allowed to procure up to seventy five percent american products and transport them only on american ships. and that means that the shippers have a lot of interest in food aid policy and have been an incredibly effective lobby to fight for the status quo of sourcing in and shipping from the united states the u.s. government is the only government in the world that hasn't made substantial movements in the direction of enabling local procurement of food aid in developing countries in order to respond faster and more cheaply to food emergencies as they arise.

think of the things that took place we had the department of defense, cia, national security council usaid number of the of things. but the one of israel was if you want a friend in washington, i get a dog. [laughter] and the rams held corollary was getting very little dog. he could turn on you. [laughter] >> what is the next question? >> since we are in the nixon center and we may be opening to a china what do think the prospects are for continuing a good relationship with china? >> it is possible. is a big country and an important country and it has trouble with its neighbor india and vietnam and mongolia and tibet and it makes a lot of mischief and causing difficult -- difficulties and other countries that have been operating in that part of the world. they are investing in double digits of the defense capabilities and they will have a growing presence. the expert on this is henry kissinger but as i look at it, it seems there is attention between a growing economy which means there will be a lot of people around the country with computers, phones, all of the electronic stuff from the fa

usaid's bucket have similarly been moved under national security.private military contractors, a type oftfor, form oil between these different groups, connecting them in terms up personnel and contracts. the previous group rivaling this was perhaps finance companies and banks. .ow it is clear who is winning in order to get anything done, like as in russia, you need a sponsor within that group. as a result of its increasing strength and power, is able to command an increasing share of the u.s. tax burden, pulling it to itself. the state department was having its budget decline at about 3% per year in real terms while the military, the intelligence complex was having a similar increase per year. that is presumably why they decided to jettison some of its independent institutions and move into this protected financial umbrella. that shows you the increasing political strength of the u.s. overurden being ticketed like vultures on a corpse. the biggest boulter can steal more of the blood of u.s. taxpayers. the biggest one right now is the military indust

with the same law kennedy founded usaid the u.s. organization responsible for international development which would administer civilian foreign aid. is. the u.s. government for spreading many cunning flurried policy through human and charity systems. during the cold war large quantities of food were sent to countries of strategic importance to the united states like india indonesia and pakistan. likewise large cargoes were sent to eastern asia during the korean and vietnam wars. during the seventy's a large bulk of food aid went to the middle east. during the ninety's after the fall of the berlin wall today it was directed to countries the former eastern bloc the same pattern was repeated in afghanistan and iraq during the war on terror. if you are took aboard diplomacy it's a very subtle way of pushing a message of agenda. to another country you know because if you if you've seen even in the i'm more circus training elephants to their training than chip and since they use food in there if you don't train much upon such a dance like

the connected usaid to the navy to the embassy, and which is critical, but i think the problem is good to think about whether these kind of offices work. but i think we shouldn't render judgment based on structure. we should also look at whether it makes sense to create them. and then from day one put your shoulder to making them fail because of the personal clashes and battles. >> host: let me ask you one more question before i move on to the big question. and it's my last won a promise on holbrooke. there's another aspect here and it has to do with the iran policy when it comes under the discussion of the iran policy. he was quite a bit of a free lancer. and his recommendation -- he wanted to do his own initiative towards iran. and i'm taking back to i think it was sometime in 2009 to be he wants to act on his own and meet with the high iranian officials which is absolutely forbidden. but he says what if it happens to be in the right place? and i happen to talk to him, who is to stop me and say this isn't going to take us somewhere? i think somewhere it is described as typical of the

usaid, world bank, etc. there is of course a cultural problem, which is the education of women issue. when we look at the literacy rates, across the country you find that the literacy rate for pakistani girls is so much lower than anywhere else in south asia. that drops the overall rate down. if you look at men, their literacy rate has been higher. andn has been very low relatively constant. that is an issue. i think thisat, election was not fought in that. there were people always saying, you know, calling for a electricity and education and so it was i do not think fought on that basis. i do not know what the education plan is. the only one who had an education plan within their manifesto was pti. they push for what you are saying. the abysmally low literacy rate and how we intend to improve it. >> i know we have gone way beyond time, but a quick comment from you, then i will take the two last questions together. there is a lot of noise about it. there are certain systemic problems within our system, for e

government through usaid yesterday we announced a new innovative process that will allow us to more rapidly utilize the resources that you make available and to leverage the private sector's capability of guaranteeing resources to do that. a third example and one that has been mentioned is work with pmi and other global partners in the mekong valley to address drug- resistant malaria. the global fund committed $100 million to a regional program and has started closely with p mi and the u.s. government to make sure our global investments are not threatened. a fourth example is to partner with national malaria control programs to move towards that news of the epidemiology to make sure the resources you commit are the most effective in dedicating read the highest risk of transmission is. a final example relates to counterfeit trucks. mr. stockman asked who was working on this. the fda is working very aggressively on this. there are several other international partners including the private sector that's developing new technologies if so we can identify counterfeit products in a rapid way throu

so here examples would include the recent story with usaid was the u.s. department agency was kicked out of the country for supposedly promoting regime change in russian, or the increase in testing increasing government pressure against internationally or foreign funded ngos far pursuing similar objectives. all the while it's interesting to note that the foreign policy concept and -- emphasizes fresh has to learn how to do the soft power better, that it is actually important for russia to learn how to be soft power. to me it's funny to observe their trying to learn the techniques of the western techniques that basically to use them against the west itself because they see the west as posting this threat to their own sovereignty. so this is just to give you an idea of what russia sees as the soft power entered in the 21st century. i will be wrapping up here. i think in terms of the u.s.-russia relations, soft power is more source of tension and a force that brings them together to improve the situation both sides have to work on the perceptions of each oth

we have the department of defense, the cia, the national security council from usia, usaid i believe,ays, any number of things happen. nato. but one of his roles was if you want a friend in washington, get a dog. [laughter] and the rumsfeld corollary was, get a toxin, he may turn on you. [laughter] get a very little dog. what's the next question? >> mr. rumsfeld stated there you are, yes spent since we are in the nixon center and he made the opening to china, what do you think prospects are for continuing a good relationship with china? >> i think it's possible. china is a big country. it's an important country china has trouble with its neighbor, india, border color. it has trouble with his neighbor in vietnam, border trouble. it has trouble with mongolia and tibet. it is making a lot of mischief in the south china sea and causing difficulty for the south koreans, for the taiwanese and for the japanese and other countries that have been operating in that part of the world. they are investing in double digits in their defense capabilities in developing the blue water navy and they wil