Hi everyone and welcome. My name is Glenn Dyson and I'm joined today by Alexander Merrick Curris.

And also from the EU Parliament, we have Michael von der Schoenberg, who is a German diplomat,

also working with the OSCE. And if I'm not mistaken, 34 years in the United Nations, which has held positions,

including the Assistant Secretary General in the UN Peacekeeping Missions from Iraq to Sierra Leone,

and also, yeah, I would say a very important voice in not just German politics, but also European.

So welcome, both of you.

Yeah.

So we really want to...

My life is a bit more complicated, no?

Sorry?

I've been more complicated.

I've been almost in any war you have.

And because I was a specialist in the UN and of course

also on the development side, humanity and whatever. I've many times been in Afghanistan. I know all the

Mujahdin commanders. I've met all the presidents, including even Najibullah and things like this one,

the Taliban, the rest of it. So I've been in Iraq and in Iran, I was almost for nine years, three times because of the wars.

And then of course in Syria and Somalia and in Sierra Leone and so on, you know, the, yeah, you have to look at my real CV, not the one in Wikipedia.

They make, I don't know how they, who did this, but I don't want to change it because I don't want to get any attention to it because they start fumbling them with my CV.

And I also don't care really what people think about me.

That is not untypical of what many people say about Wikipedia, by the way, that pay no

attention. And I pay no attention to Wikipedia. I don't think many of our viewers do either.

So I've spent basic 34, of these 30 years, I lived actually in these countries. I lived in the

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