Joint Press Conference by Secretary Carter and Secretary Michael Fallon > U.S. Department o... 12 of 14 https://www.defense.gov/News/Transcripts/Transcript/Article/937142/joint-press-conference-... So -- (inaudible) -- just the -- skepticism -- and how do you answer that? SEC. CARTER: Well, we're a long way from getting there, but that's why Secretary Kerry is going. That's why the president said he wanted to give it one more try. So if we didn't believe that was worth doing, we wouldn't be doing it. And I'll say one other thing I said in the speech in Oxford, which you may have noted as well, which is I have been in the course of my career in a very different place with working with Russia -- a place where we were cooperating together actively. There was a time in between the Cold War and today's tension where that was possible. That was a very fruitful thing to do. So I -- we -- we have great differences, and I have not minimized them, including right here today. At the same time, we remain, and this is true of the NATO alliance as well, willing to leave the door open with Russia where our interests align. We have found instances of that in recent times. Iran and the nuclear deal is such an instance. But they're much fewer than they were in the 1990s. And that is an opportunity that Russia is missing. Q: And I have a question for Secretary Fallon as well. (CROSSTALK) Q: Just on -- just on Yemen and Saudi Arabia. There is a select committee that is calling for Britain to suspend, to halt its arms sales to Saudi Arabia while investigations are underway about the use of -potential use of British weapons that may have violated humanitarian and human rights laws. 21.02.23, 14:13