Thank you, Minister.
Why would you and your department choose to work with a company that did work with VEB, a Russian state-owned company that is known to be intertwined with Russian intelligence and that is currently under U.S. sanctions? Why would your department choose to work with a company that also consulted for the China Communications Construction Company, which built and militarized islands in the South China Sea in violation of international law?
If you take these duties so seriously, which you say you do, why would you and your department choose to work with such a company, Minister?