Professor Tarlach McGonagle:

I thank the Chair. It is a pertinent question. If you have a united front on behalf of the EU or if you team up with other countries, you will be in a much stronger and much more persuasive position. However, that does not preclude individual initiatives by individual states. All the diplomatic, political and moral pressure that can be brought to bear in international fora and in bilateral relations could be very productive. I do not think one rules out the other, and the more strategies that are deployed, the better.