what you have to say pepe lobo when he became president the pledge to implement the two remaining pieces of the to go to gop us san jose accord and that is the formation of a national unity government and the creation of a truth commission implemented is the level of ministration would you describe them as a national unity government why or or why not and how would you assess the lobel administration's efforts to foster political reconciliation in one dorris what more would need to be done anybody want to try it the big question but especially how do you think lobo's been doing in in all these things as i said in my in my ring statement i think the record is mixed i think he did great when it came to putting a lot of pressure to have an amnesty voted by the mother in congress that this the is necessary it was the right thing to do and i'm the super political offenses i mean of course there's a discussion on all this i think he did well and should be commended for trying to integrate a national unity government  there on a personal capacity they're not there because they represent political sectors and some people might say that that's not a national unity government all the same i think he should be commended i think he is a courageous thing i do and the third point which is the one that concerns me the most is the ambivalence with regards to the mandate of the truth commission i think that's a burning issue quite frankly and i think that the attempts to live outside of the commission's purview the human rights abuses that have been documented to have occurred after june twenty eighth is unacceptable and international community and hopefully the u s government should that attempt to leave those abuses southside of the of the work in the commission what more would need to be done in your opinion for the truth commission to get started with its work well they need to appoint  the members and i think they've made they're making some progress in that regard and i think the crucial the crucial discussion here is about the mandate of the commission and the commission's ability to make proper recommendations about what they what they find as a result of their investigation and it's my impression that the agreement between the i m f and the government open door is that he's currently under negotiation offers a very interesting lever to notch the home during government's told warts complying with the with a mandate for truth commission that includes investigation of break fully with the truth commission in whatever direction their investigation takes them thank you bastards i see your hand up yes mr chairman i would just like to add to what mr d said i personally know in pillow i think that he has the best of intentions and great instincts political instincts in the sense of this people i think the truth commission is certainly the first vehicle he  will use i think he will probably my guess is if you keep it from becoming a sort of sectarian let's get one one side or another i think he's going to try to keep it away from becoming that politicized because there's a tendency and i think the debate in the country is we should go after x and not y or while rex so i think that he will he will be a moderating factor in that but i think he has to be very clear of  expectations publicly so he can lay the land of the markers out thank you let me ask you mr bastow the question on another subject you heard all of us speak to a baster kelly and talk about these cases would do you know if in fact it's true that the military holds a very significant ownership and management stake in the largest cement company currently in honduras and is is the following when i was there they had what they call an institute that the military had a pension fund quite frankly which was the biggest owner of one of the cement companies which grew to be one of two major cement but certainly at the time of what happened to mr stern and they did have an interested as far as i can understand i think that this is been a problem but it is you know quite frankly there's a distance between the actual military the general or colonel running the company it's when it's the pension fund that has a tremendous influence but it represents the military so there be a discussion here that would not be very clear because the implication is that the military sort of runs it like it runs a unit it does not do that but there is interest there there's clearly interest in that needs to be clarified thank you let me ask a final question based on something that i mentioned in violence against this community and other activities we could financially support and doors to strengthen these groups operating in the country ms got gas would you want to try try that one area as well as others since the to i think i would encourage them to continue to do that and again use aid that's reinstated to strengthen institutions that are printing really weak the judicial system the investigatory capacity of the police and others thank you i think that will have to be the last word because mr mack and i have to take a series of i think three or four votes but i want to thank the three of you for excellent testimony i apologize that i had to to leave for a little while because we're always doing good china juggle five balls in the air at the same time but obviously this is something that's of great concern to mr mack and myself and and our entire committee and  i think that there as i said before and not a lot of difference in when it comes to honduras between the two parties i know that the united states wants to help that country get back on its on its feet and i think that this subcommittee will continue to monitor that progress with consideration of all the important issues that we we raised today so i thank the three of you for excellent testimony and the hearing is now