host: an ambassador from 2002 to 2006 representing the united kingdom. he is now an associate fellow at chatham house. sir richard dalton is here in the united states for speaking events in washington. yesterday he was at the new america foundation. you can see his speech on their website. we will go back to the phones. saratoga, california, on our line for republicans. next call comes from mary. caller: yes, i can't believe what i'm hearing, and it's constant. in your own country and england, you are now considering allowing them to deploy she ya law in your country. they keep moving forward. now we have a president that says it doesn't matter which side would have won this. we are watching people begging for our help. their signs are in english. they know we need to support them. it frightens me how -- obama says that we won't respect them. do you think these mullahs care about our respect? they are supposed to innil late us so the 12th e man can come. to talk about respect and them caring about our respect, it has absolutely no relevance to the facts.

khan from pakistan, ambassadorsachan from japan, and tony lake from the united states. malcolm rifkind from the united kingdom, major-general tong from the people's republic of china, we also have on the phone with us igor yurgens from moscow. igor yurgens is the chairman of the management board of the institute of contemporary development and enjoys close ties with the presidential administration in russia. i am very briefly going to give you the main results of our deliberations to date. i will make one introductory point, there is a general consensus among the commission that whatever impact, positive impact nuclear-weapons may have had in terms of enforcing deterrence and stability during the cold war, any residual benefits of these weapons have been more than overshadowed in recent years by the growing risks of nuclear proliferation and the related risk of nuclear terrorism. that is why you can see a group like ours, which is really representative of a group of 150 former ambassadors, a military leaders, government ministers, who have joined this effort because the

we find that the harassment of embassy staff is deplorable, and will continue to support the united kingdom in calling for their release. finally, iraq. tomorrow, june 30th is smart -- is the end of u.s. troops present -- presence in to run. -- in iran. iraq. the ambassador provided updates on the security, political and economic situation in iraq, and we discussed a number of the challenges and opportunities that we are facing. this withdrawal is occurring under the so-called so far agreement -- status forces agreement. it is occurring in concert with the iraqis. there is another document that we will not be turning our attention to with even greater concern, the strategic framework agreement. it sets forth the way forward for the relationship between the united states and iraq. there is a lot going on, and i wanted to come down and talk about some of what we are doing. i will be happy to take questions. >> do you believe detention and expulsion, do you believe that a merritt -- military coup d'etat has taken place? does that triggered the appropriation aid cut off that is required under u