Mr. Speaker, the premise of these questions is absolutely false.
When decision making is going on at the NATO council, we are there. When participation in terms of the peace plan involves the G-8, we are there. When decisions are made by the United Nations Security Council, we are there.
This was a European Union regular meeting of defence ministers. On the side of that, there were a few of them who got together in an ad hoc informal way. No decisions were made. Nothing came out that we were not involved in because the involvement and decision making goes on at NATO.