Good morning. Pursuant to Standing Order 108(2), our briefing on the situation in Mali will continue.
I just want to thank both of our ambassadors for being here this morning. We have the ambassador, Her Excellency Diallo, from the Republic of Mali. Thank you very much for being here today. We also have the ambassador from France, His Excellency Ambassador Zeller. Thank you both for being here.
I believe that Her Excellency Ambassador Diallo has agreed to start off and so we'll give you the floor for 10 minutes. We look forward to your testimony. After both of you have had a chance to give some testimony, then we'll go back and forth over the next hour just to ask some questions. Once again, thank you very much for taking the time to be here on such short notice. We welcome you and we look forward to your testimony.
Ambassador, I'll turn it over to you.