 Welcome to WRC 19, the World Ready Communication Conference in Shama Sheikh in Egypt. I'm very pleased to be joining the studio today by the Honourable Afama Saga La Puyi Riko Jupai, who is the Minister for Communications and Technology for Samoa. Welcome to the studio, Minister. Thank you. Thank you for the opportunity. Now, I wanted to start off by asking you a little bit about your hopes and aspirations for this particular conference. You've come a long way and I presume that you must hope for some good outcomes here. Yes, you're right. We've come a long way and we have particular issues that we, in the Pacific, as we are here not just for our country Samoa, but for the whole Pacific region. Let me say that particularly on the issue of the use of C-Pen, we understand that the ITU and others will be looking at facing out the C-Pen, especially in communication via satellite, but this is very vital for us and it's very critical, especially for us in our recipients, in natural disasters, planning for us, especially in events as you may well know that the Pacific is prone to disasters, especially in cyclones. For this particular end of year season, we're looking at 12 to 16 cyclones coming our way. C-Pen is proven to have survived, especially in severe weather and times of adversities. C-Pen really stands out in the rain and gets communication going for us. It's our main aim at this particular conference that we're in here in WRC-19 that please keep C-Pen for satellite communication for us in the Pacific. We have a lot of resources that's dependent, especially in the fishing. 60 percent of the fishing comes from the Pacific region. So communication via satellite through to fishing vessels and everyone, especially in wheeling out the illegal fishing and illegal activities within the Pacific region, we depend so much on C-Pen. So please, we ask to keep the C-Pen for satellite communication. Regarding ITU, I wanted to ask you how important is the work of ITU and its study groups, do you think, for countries such as SMO? SMO depends very much on ITU, in a lot of its communication and a lot, especially in the area of regulatory. We get a lot of help, not just for SMO, but in the whole Pacific region, in our communication, telecommunication activities, the areas of cybersecurity and in all development of our ICT, we depend so much on ITU. We get a lot of help and in capacity building in all areas and for that I'd like on behalf of not only SMO, but for the Pacific region, I would like to acknowledge the Secretary General and the team and the whole union for the tremendous help in our country and as well the Pacific region. We have areas and remote communities that are unconnected, but with the help of ITU, they are now able to communicate to families overseas and they are now able to connect as well to the local communities from the remote areas that we are not able to reach with the limited resources that we have. So thanks to ITU for all the help and the assistance for all our communities and able to connect us and to get the unconnected into communications. I wanted to ask what are your feelings about connectivity? Are you optimistic for the future in the region? Yes, we have a lot of communication connectivity through submarine capers now arriving throughout the whole Pacific region itself. We're trying to connect the whole internet of Pacific region, all islands to be connected amongst ourselves and then we place servers in three of two locations around the region so that we're able to pass information freely and also able to drop the cost that we spend on technology just by working together. So connectivity, there's a lot of opportunities and a lot of although lots of challenges, we also are optimistic about the future especially moving now into digital transformation and everything is going to be digitalized and it's very important for us and although it's very far for us to come for this WRC 19, we came all the way just to see what's there for us in the future. How and what opportunities and how we resolve our challenges that we face, challenges all over the world in telecommunication is the same but it's a matter of solving it and working together around the world and especially in the union of ITU to try and resolve these problems and then move forward and gatherings like these we're able to get help from one another. I was going to say you mentioned the challenges, what about the opportunities in the Pacific region? Well lots of opportunities and there's no denying that with connectivity comes opportunities, lots of capacity not only via satellites but via submarine cables connectivity, there's a lot more opportunities, employment and especially women, you know we promote a lot of women in ICT and for next year we're looking at hosting the global celebration for women in ICT in our country and we have a lot of our own activities so opportunities is limitless, the sky is the limit but it's up to us, you know build capacity in all areas and all aspects of development in ICT and then ICT is the backbone of the economic and social development of our countries and every other country in the world so we depend a lot on ICT, we depend a lot on communication and telecommunication it's we have to keep developing and we have to keep moving when telecommunication rises everything else rises together with it so hence you know the effort to try and attend especially in ITU activities. Minister, thank you very much for joining us in the studio, we're very glad that you made the effort to be here and hopefully we'll catch up with you again at some stage in the very near future. Thank you very much, wish you all the best.