Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
There was a discussion a few minutes ago about upcoming elections. Who would be involved in monitoring the elections? Would it be Commonwealth parliamentarians or the OSCE from Europe? Who would normally be engaged in that? I would imagine it's a very important thing to do. There are obviously many other steps that have to be taken too on developing or looking at the human rights issues of the reporting, as well as looking at what democratic institutions can be improved and reformed.
We've had submissions for the last couple of days, primarily from the Tamil community. When listening to the previous presenter who was discussing the murders or killings of reporters, it seemed to me that it was kind of a two-way street. Various people from the Tamils and from the other parties were getting murdered too. With your organizations representing mostly Tamils, we're really getting input here from about 10% or 20% of those who have been engaged in this. This is kind of a rhetorical question, but how do we get this other input in order to have a fair balance of ideas?
Perhaps we could be on a first-name basis here, because of the difficulty with some of the last names.
Jonathan, perhaps you could enlighten us on the very important question of the aid that is getting through. The suggestion was that it is really the government that is the inhibitor to the aid getting through. Is that really the circumstance, or is there a balance on both sides--or on four sides, as you say--that is preventing this? I think the most urgent situation we would want to address is getting that aid moving. What is the real impediment to getting that aid moving?