 Excellency, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and the ruler of Dubai, His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid R. Maktou, Excellency Chief Executive Officer of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, Mr. Abdullah Abdullah, Prime Minister of Vanuatu, Charlotte Sawe, Ministers, ambassadors, delegates, ladies and gentlemen. When the decision was made to hold our 20th Cleaner Reputational Conference in the United Arab Emirates, it felt like a homecoming for ITU. We are proud to return to Dubai, where ITU has had major successful events in the past, such as World Telecommunications Sanitation Assembly 2012, ITU Telecom World 2012, World Conference International Telecommunications 2012 and World Telecommunications Development Conference 2014. Thank you to the United Arab Emirates for hosting PP18. I think that here I'd like to add some information that with this hosting, UAE becomes the only country in the world of ITU families to host all the major, to chair all the major events of ITU, including World Radio Conference. And we don't have yet WRC in UAE, but we did have a chairman who helped us to chair the World Radio Conference 2012. So we thank you very much UAE and for hosting our event. And this time, the UAE also promised us to have this Cleaner Reputational Conference 2018. It's the greenest and one of the most successful Cleaner Reputational Conference. Here, more than anywhere else, the digital transformation of the economy and the social society has taken on a whole new dimension. From the ICD fund to the Emirates Black Chain Strategy 2021, the United Arab Emirates is a pioneer in the world of ICT. And today Dubai becomes world capital of ICT. This new decade promises to bring even more transformable opportunities than the last. In the UAE and as well, new technologies like 5G, artificial intelligence, big data, the Internet of Things, will change how we live, work and doing in ways that have yet to be imagined. And ITU is in the front line. The challenge before us today is to ensure that these technologies and ICT in general continue to be a source for good for everyone across the world. And that is why the UAE strategy for artificial intelligence is driven by the belief that AI should be a medium for inclusion. Here in the United Arab Emirates, mobile broadband penetration is three times as high as the global and regional averages. The percentage of individuals using the Internet in the country already approached 95%. Unfortunately, that is not the case everywhere around the world, far from it. Right now, over half of the world's population still not using the Internet cut off from today's digital economy. As we debate over the next three weeks, how to build the skills and the ICT infrastructure necessary to foster inclusive economic accrues and trust. Let us work as one. Earlier this morning, I had got good news in Japan. The United Arab Emirates launched successfully its 9th Califasat into orbit. I offer my sincere congratulations to the UAE Space Agency, the Mohammed Bing Rashid Space Center and TIA, of course, to the people of UAE on this satellite launch. I think that this is a nice gift from our host country to make ITU family double happiness today. In the year of Zayed, let me conclude with the late founding father, Sheikh Zayed Bing Sodan, who once said, future generations will be living in a world that is very different from that to which we are accustomed. It is essential that we prepare ourselves and our children for that new world. So our world is changing fast and ITU is changing with it. May Cleaner Potential Conference 2018 prepare ourselves and our children for that new world. May we always remember that we are stronger together, that what unites us is a common vision of a connected world where information and communication technologies is a source for good for everyone, everywhere. Thank you very much.