Good morning.
Pursuant to Standing Order 108(2) our briefing on the situation in Mali will continue. I want to thank both of our witnesses for being here today.
From the Canadian Council on Africa we have Lucien Bradet, who is the president and chief executive officer. Welcome, sir.
From Project Ploughshares we have John Siebert, who is the executive director. Welcome, John.
John and I go back. He used to live in my riding a number of years ago. I've known John over the years, so it's nice to have him here in front of the committee today.
Why don't we get started with you, Mr. Siebert? We'll start with your opening statement, and then we'll move over to Mr. Bradet, and then we will go around the room over the next hour to ask questions back and forth. I believe you have a presentation of between eight and ten minutes. We look forward to hearing from you, and then we'll go back and forth with the members of Parliament to ask questions.
Welcome. The floor is yours, sir.