 Welcome to WSIS Forum 2018. I am very pleased to be joined by Mr Rashid Ismailov, who is the Deputy Minister, Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications of the Russian Federation. And nice to meet you. Thank you very much for joining us today. So this year's theme at WSIS Forum is building an information and knowledge society for achieving the SDGs. So can you tell us about the main axis of your strategy to achieve this? Well, actually we're all the way correlating the goals that we had in our country with the Sustainable Development Goals targets. And as you know, I mean, two years ago there was the summing up, you know, the finalizing of the 10 years period of the VCs activities in regards of the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals. Now Russia is one of the leading countries and is, as I said, always correlating its own strategy and national development with these goals. Several years ago, three, four years ago, I think that, I mean, we had all countries in the globe wide, we had the new agenda, which was about the digital economy and shift from the traditional economy into digital ones. Everyone is talking about the fourth industrial revolution. So I mean, Russia is not aside from this process of Russia, it's one of the countries that is inside of these activities. And we had, in July last year in Russia, we have adopted a program which we called the Digital Economy Development in Russia with all the features that, more or less, most of the countries have with the special peculiarities that, I mean, we might have in Russia taking into account the territory and the size of the country and the density of the population. But all the things that are considered to be implemented in the forthcoming maybe 10 years, 15 years, we have already either started or we're considering that. So you have been attending with this forum for the past five to six years, I believe. So what do you like about it and why do you keep on coming back? This is a unique forum where, I mean, even though it is more or less supervised or organized by ITU, it involves most of the, I mean, all the stakeholders that are existing worldwide and you can meet a lot of people, not only those that I'm meeting because of my assignment in the ministry, more or less, frequently in ITU. But this particular venue is about bringing a lot of stakeholders together and a lot of interventions and speeches from the heads of the delegations, though, from the society that are highlighting all the processes that are going on. And first of all, it's very good to find out the new trends or something that you don't know, you haven't applied or considered yet in your country. And to match how it's going in other countries, first of all, then I think that it's very important because you have a special venue that is dealing with the information society, which has been established, you know, maybe 10 years ago, I don't know, 15 years ago altogether. I was not on the governmental services that time. That is discussing the vital issues. And each year, if you attend it year by year, you can of course see the developments and the changes of the subjects that are being discussed, as well as the level of discussions that, you know, becoming more and more professional, because in the beginning, I mean, there wasn't so much knowledge about the information society. We just started to walk this path. Now we have walked quite a long distance. And as I said, programs in different countries, already existing experiences that you could, you know, feel, breath, you know, touch. Mr. Rashid is made of. Thank you very much. Thank you.