Pursuant to the order of reference of Thursday, April 14, section 20, for a statutory review of the Freezing Assets of Corrupt Foreign Officials Act, I'd like to welcome our two witnesses today: Garry Kasparov and Irwin Cotler. I don't think either of you need any introduction.
I'm going to try to keep the questions as tight as we can so that as many people as possible can ask questions, so if I try to be a little tighter on time I apologize in advance.
Why don't we go right to opening testimony?
Mr. Kasparov, would you like to start? Then we'll go to Mr. Cotler, and then we'll go back and forth for questions, as we normally do.
Mr. Kasparov, the floor is yours, sir.