 Excellencies, distinguished delegates, ladies and gentlemen, good morning. It is really a great pleasure and honor for me to welcome you to this 2013 edition of the Global Symposium for Regulators, organized by ITU in cooperation with Poland's Ministry of Administration and Data Realization and the Office of Electronic Communications. On behalf of Dr. Amanant Wei, the ITU Secretary-General, who cannot unfortunately be here with us today, I would like to express our sincere gratitude to our hosts here in Poland, and in particular to His Excellency President Komolowski for his patronage and support. Let me also thank our host, His Excellency Mikha Boni, Minister of Administration and Data Realization of Poland, and Magdalena Gai, President of the Office of Electronic Communications, who has kindly agreed to chair this year's GSR, but I also like to take this opportunity to express my sincere thanks to Mr. Tsingkowski, who spent his special time this morning with us this morning to deliver the message from President. Distinguished delegates, we have made extraordinary progress in the new millennium. There will soon be as many mobile cellular phones as there are people on the planet, and by the end of this year, some 2.7 billion people will be using the Internet. This is the marvelous achievement of modern human society. Among other things, the right policy and regulatory environment, in my opinion, has been a key contributor to this success. At ITU, and particularly within our development sector, we place tremendous emphasis on the importance of establishing an enabling environment in furthering ICT development and facilitate sharing the ideas and experiences among ourselves, among our members through the events like the GSR. Ladies and gentlemen, this year's theme, the fourth-generation regulation driving digital communications of hate, is particularly appropriate in a world where citizens expect to be able to have access to the latest communications applications and services, in particular 4G technologies. The theme will help us focus on the biggest challenge we face, the mobile broadband. We need to do for the Internet and the broadband what we have already achieved so successfully with mobile. In my opinion, there are two things which need urgent actions. Firstly, the government needs to ensure that broadband stays at the top of the development agenda so that the route is accelerated and the benefits are brought to as many people as possible. Secondly, we need to ensure that Internet access and especially broadband access becomes very much more affordable than it is today. This is where the GSR can play an important role. Distinguished delegates, effective regulation and sound regulatory framework are absolutely key for stimulating growth, increasing access to ICTs for all, extending broadband rollout and ensuring that we speed up progress in meeting the Millennium Development Goals. For the ICT industry, good regulation delivers predictability and stability. It reduces the risk. It encourages investment in ICT infrastructure and rewards competition and innovative business models. At the same time, it protects consumers by delivering a transparent marketplace and a fair system for resolving disputes. In closing, therefore, let me encourage you to pursue your discussions over the next three days and wish you all very productive debates and fruitful dialogue here in Warsaw. I'm confident. We will all be happy with the results of this GSR. Let me also thank our hosts once again for their exceptional hospitality and a wonderfully organized arrangement for this GSR. I landed last night. I had already a very good reception organized, wonderful reception, unfortunately I missed that. But I was told that that resume could be repeated Friday evening, so I will not miss that. And we just noted that from the message of President, the Warsaw and Poland is very proud of its history of solidarity. And I think that why I choose Poland to organize this is no secret. That is because Poland, ICT development over the last decade, achieved a wonderful level that according to ITU statistics, actually yesterday after my chat, that Poland is among top 30 countries, among 160 countries, ability to publish its statistics overall, ICT development. And Poland has a strategic position that breaches the eastern west and the south and north. And I think that Poland's experiences and achievements could be appreciated by many countries in the world, and they like to really witness what happened in Poland. So that is, I think that is a very good reason for ITU to choose Poland to host this GSR. And we are very grateful for our host to invite us here. So ladies and gentlemen, let me just wish you great success and great discussions of this GSR. Thank you very much.