Thank you, Mr. Chair. It's a very interesting question, and one that of course we look at and study.
You know, there has been a lot of commentary about Russia having to go hat in hand to its dwindling number of friends and allies, in particular Iran and North Korea. Coming out of that meeting between Russia and the DPRK, there were no arms deals announced, from what I know, but of course we cannot speculate on what was discussed. We will certainly hold Russia's feet to the fire in terms of taking any actions that violate UN Security Council sanctions, which would be the case if they did make an arms deal with North Korea. With Iran, we know that there have been reports, of course, of deals struck as well, with weapons found on the battlefield in the theatre.
It is not surprising that Russia is going to these countries to ask for weapons. It has only some means of supply; it is not able to get them from erstwhile friends such as China, for example. That's been discussed as well. There have been no arms deals discussed.