Mr. Speaker, the proposal put forward by the Germans was a program that was worked on last weekend at a G-8 political directors meeting at which Canada was clearly represented. A series of proposals were looked at with a view to potentially having a G-8 ministers meeting.
In the meantime there has been a discussion between Foreign Minister Ivanov and Secretary of State Albright. Clearly, not only would we support it, but we certainly have to seek out the agreement of Russia to be one of the participants in it, and get the agreement of Mr. Milosevic to the conditions that were set out.
As I said yesterday, we are hoping that these diplomatic initiatives that began last week will bear some fruit. However, at this point in time there are still those kinds of exchanges and dialogues taking place.