Thank you very much, hon member. The matter of contributions made to the AU reflects the strength and size of the member countries. For a while now, this has been a source of great weakness in our discussions with other member countries. The approach has been one that sought to improve on the capacities of all of these countries by removing the bottlenecks in integrated trade within the economic communities; hence Comesa, the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa, the East African Community and SADC have had summits looking at interconnectivity as a way of ensuring that these countries are placed in a position where they can afford their own fees.
We know that some other well-resourced countries use resources to extract undue influence, for instance, by paying for the weaker countries. That is part of the problem that we are trying to address at this point in time. It's a challenge, but we can only succeed in addressing it by strengthening and ensuring that we do not advance alone and thereby become an island of progress in a desert of backwardness and underdevelopment. That is how we are approaching it. Thank you.