Well, I don't know about written assurances, but I can tell you I had personal conversations with Dr. Abdullah Abdullah, who was the foreign minister, my counterpart, about the importance of the agreement and the importance for the Canadian public to know that we were living up to the rule of law, and that, in fact, the success of the mission was depending on the rule of law because that's what we were there to establish, and he totally agreed with that.
President Karzai, when we raised it with him as to why we wanted the agreement and that it was important for us to have an agreement before we began our operations in the spring, accepted those arguments.
So I can't say as to whether it was a written assurance, but I can assure you that the Afghan authorities that I spoke to were of agreement.
To be fair, General Wardak himself, when he was reticent about the agreement, was reticent because he was concerned about his capacity to be able to make sure it was going to be properly applied.