Colleagues, good afternoon.
We'd like to start today's session with the officials from the Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development.
What I'd like to do is, at the end of the meeting, keep you for about five minutes to go in camera to talk about a couple of issues we're working on that we need to have a quick conversation about. It won't take long.
Pursuant to the order of reference of Thursday, April 14, 2016, section 20 of the Freezing Assets of Corrupt Foreign Officials Act and the statutory review of the act, before us are the witnesses from the Department of Foreign Affairs. Mark Glauser, is the acting assistant deputy minister, Europe, Middle East, and Maghreb.
Mark, what I'd asked you to do is to introduce for the record all of your colleagues who are in front of us, then I'll turn the floor over to you for your presentation. Colleagues, it's a little longer presentation, and that's good. It's a little more detailed, but from there we'll go right into a series of questions.
Mr. Glauser, I'll turn it over to you.