Colleagues, I'd like to bring the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development back into session.
We have about half an hour to spend with the Minister of Foreign Affairs from Latvia, Mr. Rinkevics. We want to thank him very much for making the time and effort to be with us.
Following our normal process, the minister will start off with some opening comments, as long or as short as he likes, as our guest, and then we'll get right into questions from committee members. As most of you will recall, we were in Latvia for a short period of time in January and had an opportunity to talk to a number of people. This is a good opportunity to follow up on that, and we're looking forward to it.
Minister, welcome. I will turn the floor over to you for some opening comments. Then we will go right to questions.