Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thank you, ladies and gentlemen, for your remarks this afternoon.
Ambassador McCardell, I'd like to ask you a question about the meeting with the NTC in Benghazi. I understand that you accompanied the minister on that occasion. Can you provide the members with some insight on your visit and your meeting with the NTC, and on some of the issues that were discussed there? What is your overall impression of the NTC? Who are they? How prepared are they to govern Libya in a post-Gadhafi world?