Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman.
First, I'd like to thank our guest, Ms. Stoddart, and her colleagues, for being here this morning. The subject is fascinating, but I'll come back to that.
Please excuse me, but this is the only time I have, under our rules of procedure, to raise a logistical problem. So I apologize to our guests.
Mr. Chairman, the clerk told me earlier, before the meeting, that this was the only moment I had to request a change to the agenda. As you know, I announced it last week, I would have liked us to talk about the important motion that I introduced more than a week ago now concerning the internal report of the Department of Foreign Affairs on what is going on in Afghanistan. So I would really like to make this change to the agenda so that we can talk about it at the start of the meeting. Unfortunately, the clerk told me that that was not possible.
After speaking with my colleagues, particularly Mr. Wallace, we agreed together that, if you assure me that we can take half an hour at the end of the meeting to debate this motion, and perhaps another one, I could not insist that we amend the agenda in order to proceed immediately with a discussion of this motion.