Thank you, Chair.
I'd like first to thank all of the witnesses for being here on such short notice and for providing us with their testimony today.
While I have questions for all of you, obviously due to time constraints, I'm going to stick to some of the most important ones.
Mr. Azzopardi, you stressed the importance of ratifying this agreement as soon as possible and you stated there would be grave consequences, and that every single day we don't ratify this agreement, there are consequences. Can you speak a little more about this?