Arkansas Edition: British American Parliamentary Group (BAPG) Exchange Program

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Well, I'm Rehman Chishti Conservative member of parliament for

Gillingham and Rainham, a constituency in Kent in the Southeast of England I'm

here in the United States first in Washington and now in Arkansas with the wonderful

Congressman Hill as part of the British American Parliamentary Group (BAPG) which

looks at having parliamentary representatives from the United Kingdom

coming over here to the United States interacting on so many different levels.

I'm French Hill, I'm a second term Member of Congress and I represent Central Arkansas.

Well, Arkansas has about 3 million people

in it and we have a lot of international companies here including companies from

Great Britain and so this is a way to break down barriers and increase that

capital flow and commerce flow between our countries because you know our two

great countries have so much in common and our two great country comes together

in helping address many of the challenges around the world whether it's

foreign policy, whether it's security, whether it's addressing issues back at home in terms

of creating jobs and this program has given me an eyesight into addressing

some of those issues which I may not have had before. So collaboration at the

local business and chamber level and civil society is a real benefit I think

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