 Mr. Secretary General of the RTU, other senior officers of the RTU, Mr. President and President, officer of the conference, ladies and gentlemen. Our delegation brings you greetings from the President and people of Liberia and take this time to congratulate the President and people of the Republic of Romania on this unique occasion and wonderful display of hard work in hosting the 2022 Penerpotentiary Conference. We also take this time to allow the efforts of its Excellency, the Secretary General RTU, ZEL, in amalgamating our city leaders, recession, academician, practitioners, technicians and others in one environment to discuss issue-read events to building a better digital future for all. This is, without any uncertainty, very laudable. Liberia's city sector is playing a critical role in accelerating the transformation of our country's academic stature from one poverty into a middle-class nation. The government has been focused on the implementation outcome of the World Summit on the Information Society at national level, at the same time working towards and achieving all internationally-agreed development goals, including Vision 2030. As part of this effort, Liberia gave due regards to the road of ACT and pledged to the ACT sector its best underscore by the commitment demonstrated through the report it provides to the sector. Liberia has also recognized the ACT sector as an enabler of social economic development, thereby prompting the use, the need to update the 2020 policy to make it relevant to the current exigencies of the state and in support of ACT objectives on the propo agenda for prosperity and development. In this respect, the 2019-2024 ACT policy was adopted by the cabinet to update the 2010 policy withdraws an emerging trend in the ACT sector, particularly the rise of conversion technology, digital broadcasting, e-services, new technologies, and provision of universal access to boost social inclusion. Additionally, the Government of Liberia being conducive of the need to provide the national RCD infrastructure has made investment in showing large-scale connectivity, the connection to the African Coastal Europe Summary Optical Fiber Cable for broadband connectivity is evidence of this. Currently, a private company, C-Squad, a wholesale infrastructure provider with 180 kilometers of metro fiber around our capital city, is providing services to all MNOs and ISPs. The Government of Liberia has planned to build over 350 kilometers of fiber bike boom from Monrovia to the border of Guinea and Arikos. Liberia is also working with the academic community of West African states on the Amaka Cabra Sub-Summary Cable project, broadband development within the territories of concerned countries like Gambia, Guinea, Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Liberia. Coincidentally, the same named countries have only one cable-learning station connected then to the ISC cable, the Summary Cable. The proposed Amara Cabra cable includes a main trunk which will run from Paris to Cape Verde to Monrovia in Liberia with three branding units to Guinea, Bissau, Guinea, and Sierra Leone, and two stops for Fisher expansion to the north and south respectively. Those efforts are being made to ensure that large mass connectivity is provided to the consumers and provide such needed and guaranteed redundancy in international connectivity for our country. U.S. alliances, the era of technology is here and it cannot be ignored. The development of every country is now linked to how much the country consumed RCT. The ministry of post and telecommunication has a responsibility to develop policies and standards that will guide the sector. In light of this, I am pleased to inform this body that the Government Library has begun identifying innovative ways to utilize the bandwidth provided by ISC optical fiber cable for the integration of RCTs in all sectors to accelerate the realization of a modern Liberia that will be a knowledge-based economy. Our Cybercrime Act of 2021 is currently at the Senate and the House of Representatives of the Republic of Liberia to be enacted into law. Cybercrime acts to provide for the prohibition, prevention, detection and response and prosecution of cybercrime in Liberia. Not only that, the data protection is also in process to be submitted to the executive for onward submission to the national legislature for enacting the law. The data protection law, when enacted, will provide a legal framework of protection for privacy of data relating to collection, processing, transmission, storage and use of personal data with our prejudice to the general interests of the state. However, there remain financial difficulties that are associated with what we do in the RCT sector. Liberia remains committed to enhance the diffusion of RCT in all areas to deliver efficient public service to all customers of the public sector. Our Government understands the use of RCT for sustainable development and growth. Can that be over the emphasize? This is why the Government continues to put in place measures that will ensure all of its goals are met. For example, the Government has approved a program called School Connect which is intended to provide Internet services to our school around the country. In addition, many universities are developing programs that incorporate technological advances and trends. Finally, the Government, Liberia to the Ministry of Post and Telecommunication, shall continue to embark on policy reforms, place emphasis on public-private sector partnership as part of the overall Government plan. I am convinced that with the spirit of partnership in the sector, achieving our RCT goals as a country will be a success. I cannot overemphasize the role of RCT, has played and continue to play in Liberia's path to development. Sectors such as finance, health, education, agriculture, and the Government have embraced technology for management of information, enhancement of service delivery to reach the public more effectively efficiently and at an affordable price. Most importantly, as you are aware, the Government, Liberia has begun its universal asset program a few years ago. Let me inform you of steady progress, but with huge financial challenges. The Government received some funding from multilateral partners a few years back and has begun the implementation of the program. Part of the projects were successful and actual implementation is ongoing. However, this is expected to be a drop of water in the desert of no connection. We therefore urge the RTU to invest more in the area of universal assets if more is to be done for rural inhabitants in a broader connectivity for all. The need across the landscape of Liberia is very much rare and there is no other way to put it but to describe it as such. Let me end by rebounding you of Liberia on the way of our commitment towards the setting RTCE as an eyebrow towards serving sustainable development goal. Thank you.