Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Allow me to join my colleagues in thanking the witnesses for appearing before us. It has been very helpful.
As has been noted both by the witnesses and by my colleagues, we have been witnessing a lot of robust diplomacy taking place in the past several weeks. This is obviously a situation that is of the utmost importance to Canadians.
Given the robust diplomacy that has been going on, first of all I'd like to ask the two witnesses for their assessment. I'll start with Ms. Hulan.
Is it your opinion that Russia is genuinely interested in dialogue and diplomacy at this point?