Thank you, Chair.
Thank you for coming, folks.
Svend, it's good to see you back at the foreign affairs committee. It has been a while.
Recently we had a meeting with the World Food Programme and heard a very similar presentation: their results are better, and their objectives, somewhat, were being met. But they had a concern--and I think you alluded to it--about what's going to happen in the upcoming years with this revolving door of money.
They also mentioned the European debt crisis and what's going to be projected in these budgets as the Europeans are going to have to tailor their budgets. The problem is that foreign aid might be some of the stuff that's cut back quite a bit. They are probably your biggest donors.
When you hit that so-called wall of financing, how are you people going to deal with it? The World Food Programme alluded to starting to draw on...they see an opportunity for developing countries, such as China, Brazil, and other countries, to step up to the plate. Are you people doing the same thing? Are you preparing for this so-called diminishing money coming out of Europe? Are you doing your homework with these other countries, the Arab countries and the oil-producing countries, which may have been your recipients once and now could be helping you more?
That's my first question: how are you dealing with that financial wall you're inevitably going to hit?