 Thank you very much. The President of the Air Coas Commission, Your Excellency Jean-Claude Cassigreau, the Vice President of the Air Coas Commission, Mrs. Finda Koroma, Honourable Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Hangea Zena-Bahmed, the Honourable Minister of Interior, Obenerao Faragreshala, Honourable Minister of Defence, Major General Magashie retired, Honourable Minister of Women Affairs, Dame Pauline Tallinn, Honourable Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Disaster Management and Social Development, Mrs. Adia Umar Farouk, Honourable Minister of State Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Zivair Udedam, National Security Advisor, Major General, Abadian Amangunu retired, and the permanent representative of Nigeria to the Air Coas Ambassador Musafsaninu. Very honoured guests, ladies and gentlemen. First let me congratulate you, President of the Air Coas Commission and all of the members of the delegation, as well as all of us today, on what is clearly an important event in the history of Air Coas and of course, even in our own efforts at maintaining security not only in our nation but in the sub-region. And I also want to commend you for your service to Air Coas and for your leadership, which has brought this about. Thank you very much. I don't think there is a better time for this process, which will lead to the full implementation of the early warning and response system, where at a time, nationally and of course sub-regionally, where the security threats that confront us are becoming more violent, asymmetric, they spread faster than ever before, and of course they are cross-border in their nature. So there is no question at all that this is a moment when we really should be looking at how to collaborate in real-time and in increasingly more imaginative ways in sharing information and also in sharing competence in order to confront the security challenges that confront us. And so this early warning and response system is one that is timely and important for us as a nation and of course sub-regionally. I think that Air Coas should commend itself and we should commend ourselves because following the 1999 protocols, we have made tremendous progress, especially with respect to peacekeeping, to ensuring that we are in a position to manage security threats and also to provide platforms for conflict resolution and conflict management. I think that that's something that we really need to commend ourselves about and where I think also the clear expansion of the Air Coas early warning and response network to include security indicators, to include terrorism indicators is a very important thing and I think that that has helped a great deal in not only focusing on terrorism which today is possibly the most lethal threat that we face but also in giving us at least an opportunity as a sub-region to bring the very best possible idea and also to be able to check these threats as quickly and as efficiently as possible. So I would like to again congratulate you and congratulate ourselves on this important innovation and to show you of our President, President Mohammad Buhari's commitment to this process and to ensure that this early warning and response system is fully implemented and we look forward to working with you to ensure its full implementation. I've also noted the specific requests that you have made and we'll definitely ensure that those requests are processed and we just as you know we're all very committed to ensuring that not only is Air Coas able to fulfill subjective because it's always in our own interests as in our own national interests as well but also because we believe that the safety and security of the sub-region is the safety and security of our own national as well. So I'd like to thank you again for all the effort you've made and to say that we're certainly very happy to continue to work with you to see the full realization of this early warning and response network. Thank you very much.