I think the most obvious example of that is the fact that you had the UN Secretary General at the NATO summit, which I think is a first.
Also, part of the NATO plan going forward calls for increased collaboration with the UN family on the ground in Afghanistan. That seems like a natural thing that should have been happening before, but it wasn't built into NATO's plan, and there was no ability at the level of the NATO structure in Brussels to monitor progress. So NATO is undertaking to work closely and to do their planning.
That means that when NATO sits down and thinks about what it's going to do under the heading of reconstruction and development in the south through the provincial reconstruction teams, the PRTs, it's going to take into account the work that the UN, through UNAMA, the special UN program in Afghanistan, is also undertaking. We're seeing at RC South that those meetings are beginning to take place, and that's really important.
Canada plays a key role in that. I spoke to a former UN special representative in Afghanistan who is now retired, and he was saying that one of the things he found very helpful was when countries like Canada really illustrated ...on the ground in Kabul by meeting and attending to and supporting him. The fact that serious countries like Canada supported him actually enabled him to make progress in Afghanistan and to have a degree of credibility.
We're working very closely with Kai Eide, the UN representative, to be sure that it's clear to everyone on the ground that he's someone Canada supports. We value his work, and we want to see him succeed. We're looking to make the connections ourselves and to help make the connections between the UN and NATO.