Thank you. I'll make some general comments.
The NATO Parliamentary Assembly, as Cheryl pointed out, has parliamentarians from the 28 NATO members but also from partners such as Russia, who are engaged in the NATO meetings and discussions, and also aspirant nations, like Georgia, Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina. It's a very viable international forum for parliamentarians.
These resolutions are pretty close to consensus. They're very well developed. They come from different committees of the association. They're debated at these annual sessions, modified to satisfy objections that have been raised, and they're adopted. I think they are quite comprehensive and worth looking at.
I think the Afghanistan motion is particularly interesting, in terms of what's happening in Afghanistan after 2014 that they're urging member nations to engage in. I thought we should share them with the members of this committee who take an interest in these affairs. As members of NATO, of course, Canada has played a role in the parliamentary assembly, which does vote on these resolutions and passes them. Canada has played a strong role in the past, and I think we should continue to do so.
One feature of this meeting in Croatia, and it's a feature of all the annual sessions, is that the secretary general, in this case, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, appears at the beginning and makes his opening remarks. Then there's a two-hour accountability session where delegates get to ask whatever questions they want. It's done in camera, or charter house rules. It is a sort of accountability session, I would have to call it, and a viable valid role for members of this committee, or whomever wants to participate, to get involved.
We wanted to bring this to the attention of the committee to give the perspective as to what the parliamentarians of the member states are thinking and how they're viewing these important matters of world affairs and strategy.