 I'm Mark Wells, I'm the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State in the Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs. I'm here at USIP today to talk about the state of the Venezuelan elections and the negotiations currently underway there. Well, it's pretty simple. We're trying to get the Venezuelans to focus on elections next year for the president and we're trying to create the conditions for democratic elections, free and fair elections in 2024. There are a lot of allies now in the region and in Europe and around the world that are focused on a democratic solution for Venezuela. We're working with them and talking to them about how we can best support all actors in Venezuela including the Venezuelan opposition in order to bring about the conditions to have those elections. Along with that we're talking about the sanctions that are currently applied to the Venezuelan regime and how, when the regime changes their behavior for good and coordinating and facilitating those elections, that they can receive some form of sanctions relief. It's a lot of diplomacy but we're working hard with our partners in the region and around the world. Civil society plays a major part in any kind of diplomacy that we do. The life of diplomacy and the relationships that we have with other countries extend far beyond governments and so we appreciate the input and the value added by those groups. As it comes to the actual negotiations in Venezuela, I think civil society can do a great job, one of telling us about the conditions on the ground in Venezuela and what is actually happening with the people there. We have a lot of people that we know there, partners that we've worked with, also delivering humanitarian assistance. There are Venezuelan NGOs that are really important in that space. And when the elections come up, having folks that can tell us how those elections are playing out, what are the conditions on the ground, are they truly free and fair. Those are all roles for civil society as we move this policy forward to finding a democratic solution for Venezuela.