Thank you, Mr. Verheul, for appearing today.
You've been before this committee numbers of times and always at a time when perhaps we were moving forward with some optimism that an agreement could be achieved. We're in a situation now where we believe talks may reconvene. I'm wondering, do you share the optimism of the other partners in this partnership? What's your sense of where we're going on this? I say that because of the fact that there have been bilateral communities of people meeting and bilateral agreements trying to be struck. Is that in some way going to be counterproductive in terms of us moving forward under the Doha Round?