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Friday 7 December 2007 13:30 to 14:30
Does the Foreign Office have a Future?
Lord Wallace, Deputy Leader of the Liberal Democrats in the House of Lords
Chair: Sir Marrack Goulding
Meeting Transcript
Thursday 6 December 2007 17:30 to 18:30
The Views from Tehran and Washington: Iraq, the broader Middle East and Nuclear Proliferation
Karim Sadjadpour, Associate, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Chair: Dr Rosemary Hollis, Director of Research, Chatham House
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Thursday 6 December 2007 13:00 to 14:00
Squaring the Circle in North Korea: Pyongyang Strives for 'Economic Miracle' (Domestic Politics and Socio-Economic Realities)
Korea Discussion Group
Speaker: Leonid Petrov
Chair: Jim Hoare
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Wednesday 5 December 2007 13:30 to 14:30
How Pakistan Works
Professor Anatol Lieven, Chair of International Relations and Terrorism Studies, King's College London
Chair: Lyse Doucet, BBC
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Wednesday 5 December 2007 10:00 to 11:00
China's Foreign Policy
HE Yang Jiechi, Minister of Foreign Affairs, People's Republic of China
Chair: Dr Robin Niblett, Director, Chatham House
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Meeting Recording Q&A Recording
Tuesday 4 December 2007 17:30 to 18:30
America and Europe: From 9/11 to the 2008 Presidential Election
James P. Rubin, Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs, Chief Spokesman for the State Department and senior policy adviser to Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright (1997-2000)
Chair: Professor Michael Cox, Associate Fellow, Americas, Chatham House
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Thursday 29 November 2007
Hugo Young Memorial Lecture: Not Dead Yet, Newspapers in the Days of Digital Anarchy
Bill Keller, Executive Editor, The New York Times
Chair: Alan Rusbridger, Editor, The Guardian
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Tuesday 20 November 2007 17:30 to 18:30
General Reflections
General Sir Michael Jackson, Chief of the General Staff, UK (2003-06)
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Wednesday 14 November 2007 13:30 to 14:30
What Future for the Palestinians?
Sari Nusseibeh, President, Al-Quds University and co-founder of the People's Campaign for Peace and Democracy
Chair: Dr Rosemary Hollis, Director of Reseach, Chatham House
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Thursday 8 November 2007 18:00 to 19:00
The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy
United States Discussion Group
John J Mearsheimer, Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago
Stephen M Walt, Professor of International Affairs at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Meeting Recording Q&A Recording
Monday 5 November 2007 18:30 to 19:30
Prospects for peace in Darfur
Ambassador Jan Eliasson, Special Envoy of the UN Secretary-General for Darfur
Chair: Michael O'Neill, UK Special Representative to Sudan
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Thursday 1 November 2007 13:30 to 14:30
What is the US Doing to Improve its Image Abroad?
Colleen Graffy, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy, US State Department
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Wednesday 31 October 2007 17:30 to 18:30
Life after the Taliban: an examination of development prospects and society in Afghanistan
Sweeta Noori, Afghanistan Country Director, Women for Women International
Ayesha Khan, Associate Fellow, Asia Programme, Chatham House; Centre of International Studies, Cambridge University
Chair: Jane Corbin, BBC
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Wednesday 31 October 2007 11:30 to 12:30
BBC Today/Chatham House Lecture
Women's Human Rights in the 21st Century
Cherie Booth, QC
Chair: Sarah Montague, Presenter, BBC Today
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Tuesday 30 October 2007 11:00 to 12:00
Greed, Fear and Risk: Can we Shock-Proof the World's Financial Markets?
International Business Leaders Programme
John Griffith-Jones, Joint Chairman, KPMG Europe LLP
Chair: Dr Robin Niblett, Director, Chatham House
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Monday 29 October 2007 17:30 to 18:30
The Whitehead Lecture - The West and the World: A Question of Confidence
Secretary James Baker III, Co-Chair, Iraq Study Group (2006)
Chair: Dr Robin Niblett, Director, Chatham House
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Wednesday 17 October 2007 17:30 to 18:30
Keith Kyle Memorial Lecture - British foreign policy: where are we now?
Baroness Williams of Crosby, Leader of the Liberal Democrats, House of Lords (2001-2004); Liberal Democrat spokesperson on Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, House of Lords (1998-2001); President of Chatham House (2001-2006)
Chair: Lord Taverne, QC
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Monday 15 October 2007 13:30 to 14:30
The Changing Nature of Conflict in the 21st Century
Senator George J Mitchell, Chairman, Global Board, DLA Piper; former US Special Envoy to Northern Ireland; and Chairman, Sharm el-Sheikh International Fact-Finding Committee to examine crisis in Middle East.
Chair: Dr Robin Niblett, Director, Chatham House
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Tuesday 2 October 2007 13:30 to 14:30
Zimbabwe's Future
Speaker: Michelle D. Gavin, International Affairs Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations
Discussant: Knox Chitiyo, Africa Director, Royal United Services Institute; formerly Deputy Director, Centre for Defence Studies, University of Zimbabwe
Chair: Alex Vines, Head, Africa Programme, Chatham House
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Monday 1 October 2007 13:15 to 14:15
Dr Alan Greenspan in conversation with Jeff Randall
Dr Alan Greenspan, Chairman, US Federal Reserve Bank 1987-2006
Jeff Randall, Editor-at-large, Daily Telegraph; BBC Business Editor, 2001-2005
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Thursday 27 September 2007 10:30 to 11:30
2007 Elections in Turkey: Democracy, Identity and Politics
Dr Özlem Tür, Department of International Relations, Middle East Technical University, Ankara
Chair: Sir Brian Crowe, Deputy Chairman, Chatham House
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Friday 21 September 2007 13:00 to 14:15
Emerging India and its Engagement with the 21st Century World
Anand Sharma, Indian Minister of State for External Affairs
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Thursday 20 September 2007 18:00 to 19:00
Annual Defence Lecture: War and strategy
Professor Hew Strachan, Chichele Professor of the History of War, University of Oxford
Chair - Dr Paul Cornish, Head, International Security Programme, Chatham House.
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Monday 6 August 2007 18:00 to 20:00
BBC Hecklers Programme recording: 'It's better to have a war with Iran than a nuclear Iran'
Speaker: Patrick Clawson, Deputy Director for Research, Washington Institute for Near East Policy
Hecklers:
Professor Ali Ansari, Professor of Iranian History and Director of the Institute of Iranian Studies, University of St Andrews
Robert Fox, Defence Correspondent, Evening Standard
George Galloway, Respect MP for Bethnal Green and Bow
Dr Claire Spencer, Head, Middle East Programme, Chatham House
Chair: Evan Davis, BBC Economics Editor
Meeting Recording
Thursday 26 July 2007 10:30 to 11:30
Conservative Party National and International Security Policy Group Report Launch
Dame Pauline Neville-Jones, Chairman of the Conservative Party's National and International Security Policy Group
The Rt Hon David Cameron MP, Leader of the Conservative Party
Chair - Dr Robin Niblett, Director, Chatham House
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Wednesday 25 July 2007 16:00 to 17:30
Prospects for the Portuguese EU Presidency
HE Manuel Lobo Antunes, Minister for Europe, Portugal
Chair - Robin Shepherd, Senior Research Fellow, Europe, Chatham House
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Thursday 19 July 2007 16:00 to 17:00
The new diplomacy: challenges for British foreign policy
The Rt Hon David Miliband MP, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
Co-moderated by Dr Robin Niblett, Director, Chatham House and Ricken Patel, Executive Director, Avaaz.org
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Thursday 12 July 2007 13:30 to 14:30
Reflections on Asia's future
Guy de Jonquières, Asia Columnist and Commentator, Financial Times (2005-07)
Chair - Vanessa Rossi, Director, International Economics and Model Analysis, Oxford Economic Forecasting and Associate Fellow, Chatham House
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Wednesday 11 July 2007 13:30 to 14:30
Why the UN Matters Today
HE Ban Ki-moon, Secretary General of the United Nations (2007-present)
Chair - Lord Hurd, President, Chatham House
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Thursday 5 July 2007 13:30 to 14:30
The Palestinian crises
Dr Khaled Hroub, Director, Arab Media Project, Cambridge University; Presenter, Al Jazeera; and author, Hamas: A Beginner's Guide
Chair - Yossi Mekelberg, Associate Fellow, Middle East Programme, Chatham House
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Thursday 28 June 2007 17:30 to 18:30
Europe after 50: Muslim immigrants and the strains of multiculturalism
Professor Paul M. Sniderman, Professor in Public Policy, Stanford University and author, When Ways of Life Collide: Multiculturalism and its Discontents in the Netherlands
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Wednesday 27 June 2007 13:30 to 14:30
Uniting energy and the environment to avert catastrophe
Lord Howell, Shadow Deputy Leader, House of Lords
Carole Nakhle, Energy Research Fellow, University of Surrey and co-author (with Lord Howell), Out of the Energy Labyrinth: Uniting Energy and the Environment to Avert Catastrophe
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Thursday 21 June 2007 18:00 to 20:00
International Energy Challenges
International Business Leaders Programme
Rex W. Tillerson, Chairman and CEO, ExxonMobil Corporation
Chair - Dr Robin Niblett, Director, Chatham House
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Thursday 21 June 2007 13:30 to 14:30
The Dillon Lecture - A New Global Order: Moving beyond the old divides of North-South and East-West
James D. Wolfensohn, Chairman, Wolfensohn & Company, LLC and President, World Bank Group (1995-2005)
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Tuesday 19 June 2007 12:30 to 13:30
Economic Aspects of Peace in the Middle East
Ed Balls MP, Economic Secretary to the Treasury
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Friday 15 June 2007 13:30 to 14:30
The road from failure to success
HE Dr Abubakr Al-Qirbi, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Yemen
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Tuesday 12 June 2007 17:30 to 18:30
China and its impact on the world in the 21st century
Dr Kerry Brown, Director, Strategic China Ltd; Associate Fellow, Chatham House and author, Stumbling Giant: China in the 21st Century
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Tuesday 12 June 2007 13:30 to 14:30
Peacemaking in Northern Ireland: A model for conflict resolution?
Peter Hain MP, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland
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Thursday 7 June 2007 13:30 to 14:30
Afghanistan: Testing NATO and the European Union
Ambassador Robert Hunter, Senior Advisor, RAND Corporation in Washington and US Ambassador to NATO (1993-98)
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Tuesday 5 June 2007 13:30 to 14:30
International migration: Rights and realities
Dr Guy S. Goodwin-Gill, Senior Research Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford
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Friday 1 June 2007 10:30 to 11:30
The development of ASEAN
HE Ong Keng Yong, Secretary General, Association of Southeast Asian Nations
(ASEAN)
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Tuesday 29 May 2007 17:00 to 18:00
An insight into Israel's political situation
David Landau, Editor in Chief, Haaretz
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Wednesday 23 May 2007 17:30 to 18:30
Africa and the Challenge of Climate Security
George Edgar, UK Envoy for climate security in Africa
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Tuesday 22 May 2007 17:30 to 18:30
China, India and the New World Order
David Smith, Economics Editor, The Sunday Times and author, The Dragon & the Elephant: China, India and the New World Order
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Thursday 17 May 2007 17:30 to 18:30
Diplomacy with Iran: The art of the impossible?
Sir Richard Dalton, UK Ambassador to Iran (2002-06)
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Wednesday 16 May 2007 17:30 to 18:30
Possible Scenarios for the Future of Iraq
Alastair Campbell, Defence Attaché, UK Embassy, Baghdad (2004-07)
Dr Gareth Stansfield, Associate Professor, University of Exeter and Associate Fellow, Chatham House
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Wednesday 2 May 2007 18:00 to 19:00
After the election: towards a new France?
Dominique Moisi, Founder and Special Adviser, French Institute of International Affairs (ifri)
Quentin Peel, International Affairs Editor, Financial Times
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Wednesday 2 May 2007 13:30 to 14:30
Inside Hamas
Zaki Chehab, London Bureau Chief, Al-Hayat newspaper and LBC TV and author of Inside Hamas: The Untold Story of Militants, Martyrs and Spies
Dr Rosemary Hollis, Director of Research, Chatham House
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Wednesday 2 May 2007 11:00 to 12:00
US-Iran Relations
Ambassador Nicholas Burns, Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, United States of America; Chair - Dr Robin Niblett, Director, Chatham House
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Tuesday 1 May 2007 13:30 to 14:30
Christianity and the Reinvention of China
Dr Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury; Chair - Lord Hurd, Former Foreign Secretary and President, Chatham House
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Wednesday 18 April 2007 22:00 to 23:00
Mongolia: A vision for the future
HE Nambar Enkhbayar, President of Mongolia; Chair - Dr Robin Niblett
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Wednesday 4 April 2007 11:00 to 12:00
Meeting: British-iranian Relations: The Current Crisis In Context
Sir Richard Dalton, Former UK Ambassador to the Islamic Republic of Iran; Hormoz Naficy, Director, Business Development, Azar Energy; Mehdi Varzi, President, Varzi Energy; Chair - Dr Rosemary Hollis, Director of Research, Chatham House
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Thursday 15 March 2007
Meeting: Europe After 50: Europe`s Place In The World
Carl Bildt, Foreign Minister Of Sweden; Chair - Dr Robin Niblett, Director, Chatham House
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Wednesday 14 March 2007
Meeting: Terrorism, Security And Civil Liberties
Lord Carlile Of Berriew Qc, Independent Reviewer Of Terrorism Legislation; Chair - Elizabeth Wilmshurst, Senior Research Fellow, International Law, Chatham House
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Wednesday 14 March 2007
Meeting: 50 Years Of Ghana`s Independence: Prospects And Challenges For Accelerated National Development
He John Agyekum Kufuor, President Of Ghana; Chair - Lord Luce
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Monday 12 March 2007
Meeting: Asia`s Energy Needs And Climate Change: What Can Be Done?
Haruhiko Kuroda, President, Asian Development Bank; Chair - Steve Howard, Ceo, The Climate Group
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Friday 9 March 2007
Meeting: Peace In Sri Lanka And The Role Of The International Community
He Rohitha Bogollagama, Minister Of Foreign Affairs, Sri Lanka; Chair - Dr Rosemary Hollis, Director Of Research, Chatham House
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Tuesday 6 March 2007
Meeting: Palestine Refugees: Realities And Possibilities
Karen Koning Abuzayd, Commissioner-general, United Nations Relief And Works Agency (unrwa)
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Wednesday 28 February 2007
Meeting: Rebalancing The Uk`s Foreign Policy: The United Kingdom`s `special Relationship` With Europe
Michael Moore Mp, Liberal Democrat Shadow Foreign Secretary; Chair - Robin Niblett, Director, Chatham House
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Wednesday 28 February 2007
Meeting: The End Of Diplomacy?
Carne Ross, Author Of Independent Diplomat: Dispatches From An Unaccountable Elite; Director Of The Non-profit Diplomatic Advisory Group, Independent Diplomat And Associate Fellow, Chatham House; Chair - Gideon Rachman, Columnist, Financial Times
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Tuesday 20 February 2007
Meeting: Challenges For Nigeria After The Elections
He Atiku Abubakar, Vice-president, Federal Republic Of Nigeria; Chair - Dr Rosemary Hollis, Director Of Research, Chatham House
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Thursday 15 February 2007
Meeting: The Uk And The Us In A Changed Transatlantic Relationship
Dr Robin Niblett, Director, Chatham House; Chair - Sir Brian Crowe, Deputy Chairman, Chatham House
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Wednesday 14 February 2007
Meeting: Constructing Understanding Between `islam` And The `west`
Hh Sheikha Mozah Bint Nasser Al Missned, Consort Of Hh The Emir Of Qatar And Chairperson Of The Qatar Foundation For Education, Science And Community Development; Chair - Dr Robin Niblett, Director, Chatham House
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Monday 5 February 2007
Meeting: Power In The Global Information Age
Professor Joseph Nye, University Distinguished Service Professor, Harvard University; Chair - Richard Sambrook, Director, Bbc Global News
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Thursday 1 February 2007
Meeting: Future Challenges For Afghanistan
He Dr Rangin Dadfar Spanta, Minister Of Foreign Affairs, Islamic Republic Of Afghanistan; Chair - Dr Roberta Blackman-woods Mp, Chair, All-party Parliamentary Group On Afghanistan
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Wednesday 31 January 2007
Meeting: Thinking Ahead: The Foreign Policy Of The Next Conservative Government
Rt Hon William Hague Mp; Chair - Dr Robin Niblett, Director, Chatham House
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Tuesday 30 January 2007
Meeting: The New Way Forward In Iraq
Ambassador David Satterfield, Senior Adviser To The Secretary Of State And Coordinator For Iraq, Us Department Of State; Chair - Dr Robin Niblett, Director, Chatham House
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Thursday 18 January 2007
Meeting: From The Human Rights Commission To The Human Rights Council: Challenges And Opportunities
Ambassador Luis Alfonso De Alba, President Of The Human Rights Council
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Tuesday 16 January 2007
Meeting: Contemporary Events In Iraq
He Dr Tariq Al-hashimi, Vice President Of The Republic Of Iraq; Chair - Dr Robin Niblett, Director, Chatham House
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Monday 15 January 2007
Meeting: Development In Africa: Transforming The Public Service
He Jakaya Kikwete, President, United Republic Of Tanzania; The Rt Hon Hilary Benn Mp, Secretary Of State For International Development; Chair - Dr Robin Niblett, Director, Chatham House
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Monday 15 January 2007
Meeting: How Russia Really Works
Alena V Ledeneva, Reader In Russian Politics And Society, School Of Slavonic And East European Studies, University College London; Chair - Edward Lucas, Deputy Editor, International Section And Central And Eastern Europe Correspondent, The Economist
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Friday 12 January 2007
Meeting: Japan's Global Strategy
He Koji Omi, Minister Of Finance, Japan; Chair - Sir David Wright, Vice-chairman, Barclays Capital
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