 My name is Emanuela Del Rey, I am the special representative of the European Union for the Sahel. They are all very serious, from terrorism, to illicit trafficking, to climate change consequences, to human rights violations, to of course also irregular migration, food crisis, and many others. Of course this demonstrates that the situation is really very serious and we need to intervene immediately, and also we need to obtain concrete results. The European Union in the Sahel is the main partner. And when we talk about partnership, we talk about partnership on an equal basis, based also on an integrated strategy that we have defined in 2021, because we want to make sure that our interventions are structured, systematic, and as I said, sustainable, obtaining good results that can really change the situation. When we talk with the African countries, we always realize how much they want to be absolutely open to us and share with us their serious problems and their demands and their aspirations. This for us is a privilege, because this allows us to understand what we can really do and in what way we can create new synergies for the future with our African partners. In this sense, I think the summits are particularly relevant and pose the basis for a different posture also of the US, for instance, or the European Union, because we can define our interventions in a more contemporary way. At the moment what is very important, because the situation in the Sahel is particularly complex, is the fact that we need to speak the same language. And this is exactly what we are doing, and we need also to talk among ourselves to understand what are the basis of our synergy and in which way we can use these common goals and common views to pass messages to our African partners. It is a big challenge, but we have to do it now, because if we don't intervene now and we don't reaffirm the fact that we want to work on governance, on the civilian surge, on welfare state and create healthy and prosperous societies, and I would say happy societies, we are not going anywhere.