Thank you.
The Government of Sudan dictated conditions for the composition of the peacekeeping force, not the African Union. It was the Government of Sudan that asked that the troops be African. This is a specific situation related to peacekeeping.
I think there's a lot that can be done bilaterally, for example, on justice and the rule of law in both north and south Sudan. The discourse on justice has been monopolized by the ICC issue, and it's all about international criminal justice, but there are many other forms of justice. There are many other ways of addressing human rights problems in Sudan, especially in the context of the democratic transformation brought about by the Comprehensive Peace Agreement, that could be looked at--for example, reform of the justice system; for example, support to civil society in north Sudan.
We are talking about free and fair elections, but the opposition parties are not well trained and not well supported. Also, the international civil society is extremely weak and very often manipulated by government. A program of support for democratic transformation would be very welcome I think from a bilateral perspective. It's the same in south Sudan. We've just discussed that there's a huge amount of work to do on institution building.
Canada will be seen by the northerners, and this is where it's politically interesting, as an ally of the U.S. What the Government of Sudan, the NCP, really wants more than anything else is normalization of relations with the U.S., including economic relations. Engaging in a constructive dialogue with Canada on democratic transformation, for example, on justice, on rule of law, would be seen as an entry point into a dialogue that they really want. They want to have normalization of relations with the west, not under any conditions, but they want to get there at some stage, and I think there is an opening.