Thank you for coming today, and thank you for your presentation.
I wonder if I could just refer to the remarks of the American ambassador to NATO, Mr. Douglas Lute, who gave a press briefing in June where he talked about what he had seen of the international reaction to the events in Crimea and Ukraine. He talked about the international support for the government in Ukraine as one aspect of it. The second was the condemnation of, and imposition of costs on, Russia for its actions. The third was the reassurance of NATO allies. He summarized some of the things that we're talking about here today. He said that in an effort to reassure allies who might feel threatened by the instability in the east, these reassurance measures had been takes. He used the same words as we have in Operation Reassurance, and the same things that have been used by Anders Fogh Rasmussen on behalf of NATO, that the actions were about defence, deterrence, and de-escalation.
Are you satisfied that those three measures are the ones, and the ones that we were involved in in Operation Reassurance was the NATO-led mission?