Mr. Obhrai asked about post-referendum issues. I would focus on a number of issues, and how Canada can contribute to that. I think the Carter Center speaker has mentioned the issue of citizenship. I think this is possibly the most important single post-2011 issue. There are approximately one and a half million southerners living in northern Sudan and several hundred thousand northerners living in southern Sudan. Their status after independence, if independence is what happens, is something that has to be resolved, because it can become a source of violence. It has to be resolved because their personal security and livelihoods are at stake.
On these and similar issues, Canada has been encouraging both sides through diplomatic means to negotiate in good faith, but also providing them some of the means to do so. For example, we commissioned research on the citizenship issue and have shared that with the north and south. We assembled a library of documents on citizenship but also other issues that arise in the case of a referendum, and we have shared that with both north and south. We're providing technical expertise on loan to the Government of South Sudan post-2011 task force to assist them in dealing with some of these post-2011 issues. We've also seconded an officer into the Assessment and Evaluation Commission, which is the commission that oversees and monitors the implementation of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement but is also providing the secretariat for the negotiations President Mbeki is presiding over on post-2011 issues.
So those are some of the examples of what we're doing to try to ensure a stable outcome based on a resolution of those post-referendum issues.