Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Good afternoon, gentlemen. We are in an area that is on the fringe of international law. We are among nations who, with some good will, are trying to negotiate an agreement on waters that are considered to be international.
Mr. McDorman, you touched on an important point as to the kind of negotiations we are involved in with other nations, by stating that we have more to lose than the Europeans and the Americans. So in a way, we are stuck.
In what way are we more squeezed than the others, and in what way can this skew the negotiations process?