Secretary Yun, what's the position of the administration on the actions that the EU just took?

Just to be clear in our understanding, that conceivably could be done and still separate out the bad actors that you were discussing in your testimony?

I think that a number of people here in the political process tend to, quite frankly, overreact to the word 'sanctions' in terms of lifting sanctions.

My impression was this is not the situation you would have in many of these other historic evolutions, where you have the desire of the people on top simply to perpetuate a system of the past.

I think we should be more open-handed. I think we should move more quickly, not because I approve of the people who have run that government for the last 40 years, but because I want to see them ushered out the door more rapidly.

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