Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Just to complete my thought, the engagement with stakeholders around the recommendations gets to validate from different perspectives whether these are hitting the mark and can they be supplemented. I think the commitment that Nevsun has made to dialogue and also to publicly disc

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  I do. I really was able on both occasions to say that these are the groups of people I wanted to speak with and that included government officials. Obviously in the mine site it's easy to have access through the company to their managers but also in terms of dealing with employee

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  As I mentioned, I'd read many of these reports before going to Eritrea, and I expected to see more overt repression as you see in other one-party states. I didn't see that. As for the people whom I spoke to both formally and informally, I did not observe traits of people who were

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  That's correct.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  If I could just clarify something, I had shortened my remarks to give Mr. Romaine a very brief moment at the end of my allotted 10 minutes. Is that okay?

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Absolutely.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  It's most appropriate that Mr. Romaine speak to the follow-up rather than me.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Good afternoon. I'd like to thank the chair and the members of the subcommittee for their invitation to present my recent work in Eritrea to conduct a human rights impact assessment of the Bisha mine. As I know the subcommittee has deliberated about the human rights situation i