Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Sure: the UN...and I imagine there's a number of people. I don't monitor them all. A lot of people come and visit.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  There's a regular frequency of international visitors. There are investors, naturally, potential investors, and people referred to as analysts, certainly who are independent, from outside Eritrea. They come from the U.K., Europe, Canada, and the United States.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Practically, we advertise for the positions available. There are a lot of applicants. Significant sifting is obviously by skills, but another significant sifting device is whether or not they are released from national service. So it's really an application process. When we go o

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Sorry, Mr. Cotler, but I am very repetitive to your line of questioning. We are aware of our operations, and we ensure that we have respected and fulfilled all the human rights obligations with respect to anybody on our site, whether they be our employees, our contractor's employ

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  I'm certainly not directly aware at all. All I have is the same access that you have with respect to the Internet, and postings on the Internet, and articles—

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  No.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  No.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  I don't believe so. I don't think I would have any trouble talking to somebody in government. By the way, Mr. Chairman, thank you again for the opportunity. Just to put this in context about our request to appear, in February, I guess, after other testimony, it was brought to o

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Certainly we'd consider it. It's our understanding that those guidelines are still in process. We have not seen those guidelines today.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  No. I wouldn't speculate on that. We monitor very regularly as to when those guidelines might come out. The guidelines have been produced by a monitoring committee or their designees, and we wait to receive them.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  First of all, that's not the purpose of my trip. The purpose of my trip is to interact with our Bisha site management and our Eritrean partners. We have people on site all the time through Bisha Mining Share Company. Our expatriate managers are very experienced, and they have ful

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  That's correct. They're non-Eritrean. They are largely African, South African, from Ghana, Australia—around the world.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Right now there are about 160—

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  —expatriates.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Correct. They're very specialized. They're part of the construction project as well.