Thank you very much, Madam Chair.
I want to thank our experts for joining us today.
Professor Dawson, I'd like to start with you.
You talked about newly opened sea routes in the Arctic, the melting ice caps and climate change, but also the geopolitical consequences. Let's put a name to it, Russia, which planted its flag on the ocean floor at the North Pole in 2007.
How do you perceive what Vladimir Putin's regime did, unilaterally claiming some sort of sovereignty over an entire zone of our planet that's quite huge?