Thank you, MP Viersen, and vice-chair of our committee, for your remarks.
One of our awardees was actually in flight at the beginning. Her flight was delayed, but she has since landed and is now with us.
In addition to Mariam Lamizana, we have another awardee with us today—Oleksandra Matviichuk, who I mentioned earlier is a Ukrainian human rights lawyer and democracy advocate. She's the chair of the Ukranian-based, non-profit organization Center for Civil Liberties and has been a member of the advisory board on human rights of the Office of the Ombudsman of Ukraine since 2012. She is joining us just after landing.
With the permission of the members in the room, we'll not have interpretation for this. Normally all of our proceedings must have interpretation, but we're doing this just for you. This is very exceptional. I don't know if you know how exceptional this is.
Without further ado, I would like to open the floor to Ms. Matviichuk, please, for your remarks.