Thank you, Mr Speaker, and Deputy President for the answer. In fact, my question was, to a large degree, very rhetorical. The group which insisted on this issue was the smaller faction of the Movement for Democratic Change, MDC, the one led by Prof Mutambara. I'm saying it's rhetorical because I think the Deputy President will remember that even among the powerful nations that have strong regional and global influence - that would include the United States, Russia, China, India, etc - there are those who believe in a democracy-peace proposition, which means they insist on elections before peace. And there are those who believe in the peace- democracy proposition, which means they believe that there must be stability before there can be elections.
I know that South Africa is caught up within that type of paradigm.