 I'm Ambassador Lunez Magalaman, Secretary General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and National Community Abroad. Elizabeth Abin, I'm the U.S. Ambassador to Algeria, and I'm here in Washington, D.C., for the U.S.-Algeria Strategic Dialogue. It's really an opportunity for us to strengthen our relation and to coordinate our action on the bilateral side, on the regional side, and on the international area also. We've been trying to broaden and deepen the relationship through a variety of areas, or economic cooperation, for example. Two-way trade has doubled every year for the last three years. I'd like to continue to find ways to increase U.S. company representation in Algeria. There are about 100 U.S. companies that operate in Algeria. I'd like to continue that. We agree with Algeria on many regional issues, and so we're trying to work even more closely with Algeria on resolving some of the very difficult issues that are in the neighborhood right now in the saw-hell and, of course, Libya, Western Sahara, the whole gambit. The war in Ukraine and Russia's aggression there and the stopping of grain shipments is impacting the whole African continent. And Algeria and the U.S. talk about aid that we're both doing in the saw-hell region and what we can work on together with not only the Surawi refugee population in the Wilaya of Tindu, but farther afield to help the neighborhood. We have reopened our embassy in Kiev, and we are working on this base of neutrality between the two countries, Russia and Ukraine. And we have a good relationship with both parties. And we start, as you know, last year in the framework of the Arab League to promote a kind of mediation on the name of Arab League to solve this, to find, for finding a solution to this conflict. And now, the last visit of the President of the Republic in Russia, he proposed also his mediation and we are discussing with both parties to see how we can help for the peace in the region. Algeria has recently joined by the support of the U.S. the P3 Plus group on Libya contact shared by the U.S. Algeria has extended an offer to mediate in the conflict of the Niger and we are working with the United States and the ECOWAS to find a solution. As you know, the President of Republic of Algeria, Abdel Majid Taboum, launched the last few days before some kind of a proposal, a new approach, political approach to solve this problem. And we are discussing this proposal with the Niger side and with the support of the United States and the ECOWAS member states. And we are in discussion with the authority in Yami to try to launch this new proposal to solve this problem on the basis of political and peaceful means. On Western Sahara, Algeria and the U.S. support the United Nations political process and the personnel and the effort of the personnel envoy, Mr. Stefan Dimistura. And we are ready to push Mr. Dimistura to consolidate and to reinforce and to strengthen his efforts to find this political solution, obviously based on the right of self-determination of the people of Western Sahara. At every level of the U.S. and Algerian government, from Foreign Minister Attaf with Secretary Blinken on down. And so we are trying to enrich and expand those areas of cooperation because we see that together we'll be able to do more in partnership.