 He's not here today just because he happens to be in the neighborhood or because he's doing a world tour and just dropped off to Geneva. He has flown especially from Los Angeles and given up precious time with his family, especially from Los Angeles, to be here today and to address you on the very important issues that this organization is addressing, both through its stakeholders platform and through its standing committee and copyright in the area of increasing access to published works on the part of the visually impaired. So both in my capacity as Director-General and as a huge fan I'm very honored now and proud to introduce to you United Nations Messenger of Peace, Stevie Wonder. Good morning, Director-General, world leaders, distinguished guests, and my United Nations family. I am grateful to Dr. Francis Curry, Director-General of WIPAL, and Trevor Clark for inviting me to address this very important gathering of world leaders whom I know can turn inaction into action and dreams into reality. I'm further empowered and inspired to work towards my mission to bring hope and light to the millions around the world who live with disabilities and specifically today those like me who are blind or visually impaired. I'm calling for this body and the amendment countries to enact a declaration of freedom for all people with disabilities. Through your legislative efforts incentives can be created to advance the blind and visually disabled towards the promise of a better life. We must declare a state of emergency and end the information deprivation that keeps the visually impaired in the dark. We must spread the word that the untapped genius of the 300 plus million who have a visual disability or are truly in need of our love today, not tomorrow, but today. While I know it's critical to not act to the detriment of the authors who have created these great works that enlighten and nourish our minds, hearts and souls, we must develop a protocol that allows the easy import and export of copyrighted materials so that people with print disabilities can join the mainstream of the liberal world. Now there are many proposals on the table that create a safe clearinghouse for the exchange and translation of books. Please work towards a consensus. I beg you, now is the time to love. Please work it out or I will have to write a song about what you didn't do. But seriously, please, please, please, sounds like the old James Brown song. Help God's life shine on the 300 plus million that live in the dark, lead their way into the light. I would like for each country represented here today to adopt and develop with WIPO or their own country a declaration of freedom for people with disabilities. It is our legacy and our gift to the future. Let's do this. Thank you. Before I go, I have another approach that I would like to share with you. Give me a second to go to the keyboard. One second. We're going to play this game of, do you know this? Do you know this part? You can sing it. Don't be ashamed. The reason that you know this song is because it has been accessible to you. You can read the words. You can, I'm sure some of you have maybe sang this song, maybe danced to this song. You are the sunshine of my life. That's why I'm old. And this one, let me see. No new to sell. I just call to sing. There we go, see? So my point is, you know, very simply. We must make the world accessible, the printed world accessible to every single person who has a visual disability or who is blind. As well, understanding that this is our livelihood, it is so important that we do protect the copyright, making sure that we as songwriters and artists can, no different than you, take care of our families. It's key. What I'd like to do is I'd like to see the declaration of freedom for those who are blind or visually impaired in some way, but not just those who are blind. Those who are deaf, those who are paraplegic, quadriplegic or other. We have to have a declaration of freedom to secure and give every single human being the opportunity to live with the freedom of knowing that they have accessibility to information throughout the world. Now I promise you, if you can, between now, meaning right here this time and next year this time, I'll come back and we can do an incredible celebration concert for all of you. It's on you. Do what you've got to do. Thank you and God bless you.