Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Ms. Labat, I'd like to start with you.
Our previous panel of witnesses included a Ukrainian member of Parliament and organizations that were in Ukraine. They really gave us an up-close-and-personal view of what's going on in that country. They all said that relieving the port of Odessa was incredibly important, and it was causing a very serious backlog. Their storage capacity is maxed out and that will impact whether they are able to seed and harvest the crop this year.
The EU has I think Romania and Bulgaria, which have coastlines on the Black Sea. I know that Turkey has been considered as possibly a future member of the EU, but it's also of course a member of NATO.
From the EU's perspective on efforts to secure safe passage from Odessa, which would be the most efficient way of relieving the storage crisis in Ukraine, but also of freeing up a lot of that food, can you maybe tell us a little bit about the EU's efforts in that regard, since you are so much closer in the neighbourhood and probably have a perspective that we as Canadian parliamentarians don't.