the iaea a looking at ways that compliment and reinforce the agency's ongoing work on nuclear safety and technical cooperation program as well. this new focus is making sure that tc efforts are not derailed in the way that they would lead to unauthorized access. the contact group released a statement of collective commitments related to nuclear security. this document, which is now available on the nscg website is not a concensus negotiated lowest common denominator that we usually see nor is it a summary of group deliberations. instead it's an informal food for thought statement designed to pull useful strands of thinking together in a constructive way to help move channel forward more effectively. i'm proud of the role the united states has played in bringing them together and helping to lead the group in this respect and hope this will indeed prove useful with constructive thoughts how states can have more thoughts within the nscg and broadly. focus in about the paper. many of you may have seen it, it available on the website and our commitment to a great deal of a great many thin

office of multilateral and security affairs implement in the offices, excuse me the efforts of the iaea's division of nuclear security that i mentioned before to help prevent nuclear terrorism. to minimize risks associated with vulnerable material. our weapons of mass destruction terrorism office against it, rather than for it, provides a focal point for our work against terrorists, acquiring nuclear or radioactive material outside of regulatory control, including those lost during the breakup of the soviet union. the wmpt office manages our role as the co-chair of the 89 member global initiative to combat nuclear terrorism. which is one of the bright spots of the u.s., russian cooperation. the co-chair with the russians and we recently are going to have a new iteration of that co-chairmanship that started up last year and that's quite effective cooperation, i must say. so we work with the nuclear forensics international technical working group to identify and socialize best practices and nuclear forensics, with foreign partners such as and interpol, and u.n. office on drugs and crimes. t

are -- [inaudible] >> multiple intelligence agencies from many different thetries, even outside of iaea, confirmed that they were developing a nuclear weapon in the years since the deal. was imperfect. the only alternative is war. and -- the europeans-- are -- [inaudible] recognize the problem too. so much.eminds me [indistinct conversation] >> safe new year. that --t wanted to say [indistinct conversation] >> thank you. thank you very much. i appreciate you. support.r all your thank you. much.you so [indistinct conversation] powerful man, nick. >> i'm trying. [laughter] >> keep it up. thank you. [laughter] [indistinct conversation] >> hi. daughter?ur >> this is my daughter. >> hi! >> she is your biggest fan. [indistinct conversation] >> so beautiful! thank you so much. >> thank you, tulsi. [indistinct conversation] >> how old are you, ella? >> elsa. >> elsa. i'm sorry. >> nine. [indistinct conversation] >> i'm glad you came tonight. did you have fun? very intently. she did. she did. bunch of yard signs. [laughter] >> thank you. thank you very much. [indistinct conversation] [indistinct