I call the meeting to order.
This is the Subcommittee on International Human Rights of the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development. Today, April 22, we are holding our 9th meeting and we are starting our study of human rights in Venezuela.
I did not know until just now that Venezuela is exactly the same in French and English, a practice that should be made international for all countries' names, in my opinion.
At any rate, we're all here, and we will hear momentarily from our witnesses. I'm trying, as you can tell, to be fast, because I want to make sure we give them adequate time and that we have adequate time for questions.
I want to alert members of the subcommittee to one item of business that's transpired since our last meeting. This morning I met with the steering committee for our parent committee, the foreign affairs committee, and reported back to them that they should anticipate receiving the report on Iran sometime within the next seven days. I think that was an accurate assessment.
Will we have it to them by then?