Thank you, and I want to thank our witness for his testimony. When he was first elected, I was an election observer during that election and was able to be both in Beirut and in the Bekaa Valley.
I hope to return to your country because I didn't get much time to see the whole country.
As you know, we were kept very busy before the election, during the election, and just after the election when we did our report. Congratulations on your election in 2009.
What I was quite taken with during the election was the multiplicity of parties, of course, and your coalition was made up of a number of parties. There was clearly, in 2009, a lot of hope about the future for Lebanon, for reasons you mentioned. The importance of having the Lebanese decide their future is what many people were seized with, and still are. Of course, that is what your concern is with regard to the neighbourhood, ensuring that the Lebanese will determine Lebanon's future, which hasn't always been the case, as you mentioned.
One of the things that I think is important for us to understand with regard to Lebanon and Syria is the effect of the war on Lebanon right now. I wonder if you could just tell us approximately how many Syrian refugees are in Lebanon right now.