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Good morning and welcome to the 11th meeting in 2008 of the European and External Relations Committee. We have received apologies from Ted Brocklebank and Iain Smith. I welcome Jackson Carlaw, who is here as Ted Brocklebank's substitute. As this is the first time that Jackson Carlaw has been to the committee, I invite him to declare any interests that are relevant to the committee's remit.
I have nothing to declare, other than what is in my entry in the register of members' interests.
The first agenda item is to welcome Patricia Ferguson as a new member of the committee. I invite her to declare any interests that are relevant to the committee's remit.
I suspect that I do not have anything to declare but, just to be on the safe side, I should say that I am chair of the cross-party group in the Scottish Parliament on international development, a member of the cross-party group in the Scottish Parliament on Malawi and a member of the Scotland Malawi Partnership.