Thanks very much.
The Mediterranean dialogue—which encompasses Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Mauritania, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia—was elevated to partnership status in 2004. The Istanbul cooperation initiative was designed to reach out to other countries, principally the Gulf countries. I think what we saw, interestingly, in the Libya operation, for example, was that something that started as a bit of a place where the UAE and Qatar and Bahrain and Kuwait could have a chat with NATO, turned into a basis for real operational cooperation. We saw that in Libya. It was quite extraordinary.
In the Mediterranean dialogue, we have all sorts of training, consultation. We have discussions about cyber-threats, about maritime security issues. This is an effort by NATO to get the countries of the Mediterranean speaking to each other, which is a little bit unusual because some of those countries don't talk to each other and don't recognize the existence of certain countries, like Israel. So it's NATO's effort to foster dialogue, even between and amongst difficult partners, and then to say what we can do to practically cooperate, for example, in humanitarian assistance and disaster relief, things that all countries can identify with. So that's what it is. These are not aspirants for membership; they are partners. Libya has shown just how useful that dialogue can be because it can lead to practical cooperation.