Thank you, committee, and let us welcome our witnesses.
We're pleased today to have visitors from Colombia. We have, from the Senate of the Republic of Colombia, Jorge Enrique Robledo. Welcome, Senator. We also have His Excellency Jaime Duarte, the Colombian Ambassador to Canada, who has appeared before the committee before. I appreciate your reappearance on short notice, Your Excellency, to provide witness today.
I'm going to ask our visitors to perhaps open with a brief opening statement. I will ask Senator Robledo to make a few opening comments, followed by his excellency the ambassador, at which point we will then go to questions of the committee members. With that, if we're all understood, and have our interpretation devices at hand, I will ask Senator Robledo to begin.