Thank you for appearing here today.
I agree with you. We're certainly not a mouse geographically, and I think that certainly is a very substantive reason we're being viewed as very important economic partners.
My question is more about the Arctic region and perhaps to add a little bit of clarity to it. We know the Russians were there and planted flags on the sea floor. Do we have to do something like that to establish territory?
It seems to me there are three issues. One is the sovereignty of the territory itself, the land territory and how that extends. Then, of course, there's the question of the international shipping access to the waterways. The third one is deciding the delineation of the coastal seaways territorial boundaries.
Are there other issues? And considering these much more amiable relationships with the United States, is there an opportunity to take any of these issues off the table and work with them?