involves information, technological and informative challenges. the search will be broken into three groups. a diplomatic team led by the minister of defense. a logistic and armed team led by the armed forces. and a technical group led by the operation of control led by the department of aviation. all 26 countries involved in the search and rescue operations have agreed to assist the operation. and malaysia has written to all countries formally, requesting cooperation. a number of assets have already been committed and are waiting diplomatic approval to begin operations. once we receive that, we can then speed up deployment assets along the search corridors. as i stated yesterday, although the search is still coordinated