We now begin the third meeting of the Subcommittee on International Human Rights of the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development.
We have two distinguished witnesses with us today, who came on extremely short notice. We're very grateful to both of them, Professor Akhavan and Susanne Tamas.
I'm told that in addition to the information we could find on the Internet, the breaking news is that the professor has been appointed to the board of directors of the International Centre for Human Rights and Democratic Development.
We are getting a late start, in fact 10 minutes late, thanks to the fact that we had a committee that ran a bit late before us. We can always use the clock as generously as possible, but in order to make this work mathematically, our two presenters are going to go for almost exactly 10 minutes each.
Then I'm going to have the rounds consist of five minutes of questions and answers. I've kept careful track from the last time around, and five minutes mean that people tend to go a little longer, because they tend to eat up the time with questions. That should allow us to get through to the end and let everybody get a shot at speaking on the record to our witnesses. If you push your time a bit too much, I'm going to have to be a bit ruthless. I'm speaking, of course, to our members, not to the presenters.
I invite you to split your time as you see fit. If one of you would like to go first, I'll let you start.
Professor, please.