Yes. If confirmed, I commit to urge the Government of Vietnam to respect human rights, and to implement reforms to bring its laws into conformity with Vietnam's constitution and international human rights obligations and commitments.

Why have we allowed such a longstanding structural deficit in our trade with Japan, and what should we do about it?

The President has said that we will not dictate to the Afghan people how to live or how to govern their own complex society.

The long and short of it is, Afghanistan today, a planning can be held in any one of thousands of buildings.

Our failure to recognize that is profoundly offensive to them.

I must say I must have missed a few of the President's statements that have given you that have faith. I wish it were so. I am not persuaded, but perhaps we will see more unfold in that regard.

It requires us to have extensive conversations and deliberations before we put forward a resolution.

Well, thank you, Mr. Chairman. And appreciate your bringing up cybersecurity in your initial remarks.

President Xi's administration has adopted a slew of laws that violate the most basic human rights of the Chinese people.

In Iran, we know about their grotesque human rights record.

a hundred-thousand points of contact is hundred point--a hundred-thousand points of vulnerability, and privacy, confidentiality is so important to diplomatic conversations.

I certainly support keeping them in the State Department.

The United States continues to support Ukraine, along with our French and German allies, in pushing for full implementation of the Minsk agreements.

The administration has been very complimentary of China.

I think it is a different fight, if you will, from 5 years ago.

There are disturbing reports that some in the Indian Government are trying to expel up to 40,000 Rohingya refugees.

Regardless of the outcome of the administration's review, unity with Europe will be crucial, and if confirmed, I will work closely with our European partners on these issues.

Certainly, we have been very concerned about the--both the commercial hacking, the governmental hacking that has occurred by foreign nations and foreign forces, including Russia and North Korea.

I have been long impressed with their work, which is why I was so troubled to see the administration's budget call for OPIC's elimination.

I think they are essential aspects of our foreign policy and our diplomacy.

My impression of the IAEA protocols is that they are more prevalent, more in number, more in high-tech, in every possible way improvements on our previous arms control agreements.

The question is, should we be in or out? A thousand companies have weighed in with the State Department to say we should be in, including oil companies ExxonMobil and ConocoPhillips.

the host parties or the host country needs to be in agreement

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