 Thank you, Dr. Jogarra. Honorable President Saqlal, Chief Justice Bhutan, Justice Sonam Toghe, Honorable Justice Umesh Balaji, President Saqlal, India Chapter, and Vice President of Saqlal. Justice Tishrek Manchuk, Judge Sudinkota Bhutan, President of Saqlal Bhutan, and Vice President of Saqlal. Justice Kalyan Sreshtra, Judge Sudinkota of Nepal, President of Saqlal Nepal, and Vice President of Saqlal. And some time back, I saw Justice Supreti as well. I don't know if he's still there. He's right there. Justice Supreti, Judge Sudinkota of Nepal, and he's been closely associated with Saqlal. He was also Secretary General of Saqlal at one point in time. Justice Sreti Tilakwarthu, Judge Supreti Kota of Sri Lanka. I think I've named all the judges each one. If I've not, my apologies. My Saqlal colleagues, ex-co-member Sapna Pratangala, Puran Manchukya, Professor Ambar Panth, Lakshmi Nubreti, and Peltan Mahanam. Peltan, where are you? I'm in heaven. Dr. Marilyn, the UNA, is Asela from IDLO. Consultants, Jogara, Ayesha Mago. How can I forget the lonely Berkeshine? The project officer of IDLO, the focal point, and the nodal officer in the segment, she definitely deserves a good round of applause from all of us, Sathya Bro. We were all emailing, but she was the one who was the leader of all the affairs. Thanks, Naomi. Thanks for your support. All those present here are eminent in their respective fields. And it's practically impossible to name each one of you. So I'll beg your pardon, and I take the liberty of referring to you as honorable dignitaries, guests, learned delegates, speakers, ladies and gentlemen. It gives me immense pleasure and happiness to welcome all of you to this South Asia Roundtable Dialogue on HIV and Law, which is organized by SAC Law, IDLO, UNAIDS, UNDP, World Bank, OFID, and even TSIF, South Asia has also supported us in some way. Thanks, Joe. Joe, are you around? Especially, I will extend very warm welcome to all the visitors who have come from all over South Asia to be part of this event. The objective of this Roundtable is to get together the relevant constituents of legal fraternity from South Asia, lead lawyers, judges, law professors, candidations, parliamentarians, government officers, and young lawyers to discuss legal and policy matters, issues impacting different facets of HIV. I would not like to get into discussing the theme of the event or the topics of the event. I think my other co-speakers, Dr. Marilyn Nassila, would do a better job, because as a lawyer, I don't trust myself, because lawyers are in the habit of reading 10,000-page documents and still calling it a brief. So therefore, let my other colleagues do that honor. Let me quickly introduce you or rather share with you two important pieces of information. One, about SARC law, what it means. And second, journey to this event, the history behind this event. SARC law is a regional apex body of SARC. It was established in 1991. And since then, it has not looked backwards. It has forced ahead with various projects, programs, initiatives, and activities, which have done definitely good to the South Asian region. One of the initiatives was getting the chief justices belonging to all SARC nations under one banner on one platform. In fact, initially, when SARC law started, we wanted to involve all the materialists in a big way, thinking that they would help us in legislating newer laws, which were the need of the art, which were the need of the society. But we realized that parliamentations somewhere had their limitations. Because of ideology of the political parties they represented, the constituency they came from, voters, expectations, so on, so forth. So down the line, we decided to involve judiciary judges, multiple judges, effectively in the SARC law. And believe me, they did a great job. They used to come for our events. They used to listen to the deliberations, discussions. And all those good points used to get reflected in the judgements. So we embraced the judges, and today I can share with you with a tremendous amount of pride that we are blessed to have chief justices of Bhutan as our president. There are many people who have great vision. And he, definitely, is a great visionary. He also has great vision. But apart from vision, he has the capacity to drive, to translate, transform vision into reality. And I can safely, and sir, please excuse me if I will be offending you in any way. But I'm saying it from my heart. For me, you are James Bond of the Salvation Foundation. SARC law has three major objectives. One is the evolution of the boundaries of the legal fraternity in the region. Second being making law as an instrument of social economic change for development. And third being encouraging cooperation amongst various sections of the society. Finally, let me share with you last piece of information that is the journey to this event. Last year, SARC, the secretariat connected SARC law with human aids. Human aids was looking for a partner. I happened to be in Bangkok in October last year. Precisely on 6th of October, I got to meet a person called Geeta Seti, who was then the representative of human aids in Bangkok, the traditional headquarter of human aids that is there. So we met informally on 6th of October. And she told me that she would be accompanied with a lady called Naomi Berkeshain, who's also, who was come from a legal background and she's the project officer of IDL. And we met, and instantly three of us we decided that we have to take forward our association at a meaningful level. And we did, actually. Me being lawyer, I insisted that nothing should be left to the world with arrangement. We should definitely enter into some documented agreement so that the duties, responsibilities and obligations of each of the parties are clearly defined. So on 28th of March this year, SARC was signed an MOU with human aids. It was a formal event. The document was signed on behalf of human aids by digital director Steve Gross. And Steve asked me that will you be a corporate commercial lawyer? What brings you to this platform of social laws, HIV and all that? I believe about an incident where a client called the law firm and he inquired about his lawyer. The digital operator picked up the phone and he said, he asked, can I speak with my lawyer, Mr. So-and-so? And she said that I regret to inform you that he's no more. He died a week back down the phone next day he again called and he said, can I speak with my lawyer, Mr. So-and-so? She would identify the voice and she said, look, you got it yesterday as well. I told you that the lawyer is no more. He died of week back. He again hung up the phone. And the third day he again called. This time obviously the digital operator was gone and she said, what are you fooling around with? I told you that the lawyer is no more. Why are you calling me again and again? He said that I'd be happy when you tell me the lawyer is dead. I love hearing that, that the lawyer is no more. I thought Steve Cross would be very aged that I don't want to die with that kind of impression. And all the lawyers, we need to realize that we get so much from the society. And it's high time that we start giving back to something back to the society. And eventually, we also signed MOU with IDLO, IDLO, in fact, just an hour back I signed, I mean, it's on behalf of Saqq Law, MOU with IDLO, IDLO, the document was signed by the acting director general, some time back, and the original contract was signed here, which we signed today. And I would definitely like to, I mean, this event is essential to that MOU as well, for sure. And there's one more document which we have signed with UNDP, which is slightly confidential, so I will not be able to divulge much details about it. So in effect, Saqq Law has signed three very relevant documents pertaining to this very subject, what we're going to discuss in the next two days. I'll close my address by wishing you all the best. A pleasant stay to all the visitors who are visiting Kathmandu, and definitely best of the proceedings, elaborations for all the participants for the next two days. God bless all of you, and God bless the event. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Hemant Bhattra, for every insightful and informative welcome you have. May I now request Dr. Walil Boromu, UNDP's country coordinator, NEPA, to address the category. General Justice Rasa and other distinguished justices, the president of Saqq Law, Mr. Herman, our lawyer, Mr. Assela, distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen, good evening and namaste. I agree with me the warm greetings and solidarity of the Joint United Nations Program on HIV AIDS, shortly called UN AIDS. When I say UN AIDS, I mean the 10 co-sponsors and UN AIDS secretariat. So, all in all, we are 11 entities when we refer to UN AIDS. Let me congratulate the organizer of this very important event, the Round Table Dialogue, Saqq Law, IDL-O, UNDP World Bank, DFID, I've seen Matt around, the Technical Support Facility for South Asia, of course, really. I warmly welcome everyone, especially those who are coming here for the first time. You, I think you come at the tail end of autumn and when winter is about to start. So try to enjoy the very pleasant weather in Kathmandu, but also the warm hospitality of the Nepali people. Now, this South Asia,