We have this secretary has arrived from
a briefing this morning good morning.

My name is Joe Bancroft Senator Nunn and
I are a lot partners in a number of years

ago I was tagged to help put on the first
of the Sam Nunn policy forms of

Georgia Tech and I'm delighted to have the
opportunity to welcome you here on behalf

of the school these things do not happen
as I know from my experience by accident.

It takes a lot of people and
a lot of coordination to make this occur.

And so I want to offer just a few Thanks
one first of all to the Bank of America

who support and consistent support of this
has made it possible for us to do this.

I also want to thank the literally
teams of people both here and

in Washington who have been of
incredible assistance in doing this.

Dr Adam Stolberg from whom
you will hear later has been

the chief coordinator on our faculty.

But the staff and
our students who you have seen many today

have been absolutely instrumental
in putting it together.

I'm also pleased as the topic has moved
from energy as a source of Commerce to now

an energy and with significant political
implications that we have with us today.

The ambassador from outer by John
ambassadorial Onselen off is here with

this and we also have Dr almost sold off
who is the chair of the Caspian Center for

Energy and Environment at the Azerbaijan
diplomatic a cat think the Georgia Tech

of Azerbaijan and
it is important to understand that these

challenges are really presenting
in real time a combined

effort at looking at what are the
efficiency the environmental issues and

frankly the political ramifications so
we will have a grand panel today to

discuss this and I would like on behalf
of the Georgia Tech Institute to welcome

to the podium to give you his remarks and
welcome the Executive Vice Pres.

Done for academic affairs and
our Provost also an alumni of MIT.

Dr broths.

Finding everybody.

Through what he's awake good and good but

it's a time honored to have you
all here let me welcome you.

Also I gan and the name of Georgette peg.

I also want to extend that
welcome certainly the secretary

in my personal name as
well last person Peterson.

Who could not be here today because he is
in the regions meeting somewhere else and

that's our time of the something
that we have to pay attention to but

he sends his regards to all of you and
to the secretary.

I want to know if it's my own or
really to introduce Senator Nunn.

Who will introduce the secretary and like
it was said last night in the inner We had

a it's one of those few people that
really do not require much introduction.

But every time I read and give me.

They give me information
about him more and

more amazed this kind of first serve
in the Senate for twenty four years he

was described then as the workhorse
work course of the Senate.

I must say in many ways is the workhorse
of the nation on the world.

He never stops literally
physically we go see exercises

every morning as well as working for
the benefit of society.

Very impressive as you know he is
a very well known for his work

on on security at the he was chairman
of the Armed Forces Services Committee.

A non-lawyer called parity of threat
reduction program that word to.

Sort of eliminate the threat of nuclear
weapons out of the former Russian

republics a mid-list will say I have
to remind you of it particularly

relevant of this moment and
I missed something that

we are all grateful for the work that the
senator has done he continues that work

after he left the center saying that his
core chairman and chief executive that no

player thread in each of the of
the nonprofit nonpartisan organization

to reduce the global threat to nuclear
biological and chemical weapons.

He's also chairman of the board
of the Center of Strategic and

International Studies in Washington.

And the group's seven revolution
project it identifies as a key

policy challenge yes but the policy makers
business figure channelers be there's

most a year twenty twenty five here
I think where parties are grateful

that we buy our His name and on are him
with the School of International Affairs.

It's also this thing which professor here.

Well he focus of the Bank of America for

him for many years of not and for

the last few years only at your death a
corporation we thank the Bank of America.

And the senator for his own system.

There comes to them an interest in this
great great act the Senator Nunn was

on our and I want to really emphasize this
because it's taken very seriously here.

With Ivan Island doing your prize for
social car which

in fact he was the first recipient
of that international price.

While your dad takes Georgia and

of land that they very seriously because
even on Earth an extraordinary man.

We saw there are extraordinary.

People.

That half shell corporation
everything else.

And certainly sent up for non of them so.

Let me end with a few personal
comments of two intervals a senator.

I've been here for
years almost four years.

Not quite.
And certainly one of my greatest

pleasures of being here has been
to get to know that Senator.

Reasonably well we live in the same place
that we see each other all the time we

have periodic breakfasts and
like I say in those one

hour breakfast we talk about every problem
in the world and every possible solution.

And they outstanding saying to me is
that he's actually doing something about

them and solving many of those
problems is I always leave

out of those hours very
very inspired to go ahead.

And he's certainly an inspiration.

So without further ado and
I think it will lot operation.

Let me introduce what in GEORGE Yeah.

Impressive credentials of the moment his
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