 Honorable ministers, deputy ministers, here present, Mr. Sorin Dendenau, President of Ancom and Chairman of GSR 18, CEOs and Chairman of Regulatory Authorities, Representative of ITU, the sector members, Mr. Ulin Dendenau, Secretary General of ITU, Mr. Malcolm Johnson, Deputy Secretary General of ITU, Francois Rancy, Director of Radio Communication Bureau, Distinguished participants, ladies and gentlemen, good afternoon to all of you, good afternoon. It is indeed my great pleasure to welcome you to this very exciting global symposium for regulators. It is good to remember that it is within the auspices of the ITU that the liberalization of the telecommunications sector was launched in the years me 90s, around 92, 96. And I still remember the green book for Africa, the blue book for the Americas and the white book for the Arab states that relaunched the liberalization of the telecommunications sector at that time. Elaboralization, of course, brought competition and established regulatory bodies. The global symposium for regulators was established in the year 2000 as a forum for experience sharing with the aim of strengthening and stabilizing regulatory frameworks across the world. 18 years later, things have changed. And a lot of change is to come. We are now in the era of digital transformation that is fundamentally changing our societies and our economies and also improving service delivery to many other sectors we are not doing before. And as we are back in using emerging technologies such as Internet of Things, artificial intelligence for accelerating the attainment of the sustainable development goals, GSR is as relevant as it was when it was created. The new challenges together with a huge, I say huge opportunities linked with them require coordination and sharing best practices. Innovative policy and regulatory measures are needed to respond to the changing landscape and to address the need for affordable and secure access and use of digital services. As a regulator, you need to keep pace with the changes in technology and address the new regulatory frontiers. The World Telecommunication Development Conference held in Buenos Aires in October 2017 reaffirmed the importance of joining forces to build a new ecosystem of opportunities for all based on access, affordability, collaboration, value creation, partnership building and innovation. As you know, ICT affecting all sectors and there is a need for collaborative discussion, collaborative regulatory approaches and collaborative or joint project implementation. In ITU, we are already working with our other sister agencies, UN agencies. We are working with UNESCO on education. We are working with WTO on health. We are working with FAO on agriculture. We are working with ILO on the decent job for young people. We are working on innovation with UNEDO and we are also working on digital financial inclusion with the World Bank. The theme of this GSR is very meaningful to all of us. The theme is new regulatory frontiers. We need to go out from our comfort zone and look at today the environment, look at the new ecosystem and play a key role we played in the year 2000 to make sure that the ICTs are used for development to make sure the ICTs are used to cater for all the 17 smart sustainable development goals and the 169 targets. We are here today explaining these new frontiers to discuss what we can do together and insist on that what we can do together to ensure that emerging technologies impact positively on our daily lives as consumers, as business or just as the citizens of the world to do so. We will work during this GSR 18 under the chairmanship of Mr. Sourin Grindanu. Thank you for accepting to share this GSR. The president of a national authority for management and regulation in communication in Romania. The mayor has seen his CV before being the president of the regulatory body in Romania. Mr. Grindanu, the first time I met him he was a minister. After becoming the prime minister of Romania now he is the president of the regulatory body. So in his career, he has the opportunity to embrace several areas of the ICT ecosystem. I think that he is the best chairman we could have to lead us during these three days as we are multi-stake holder here. He can understand when a minister is talking. He can understand when a regulator is talking. He can understand if a prime minister coming by is speaking. So then thank you very much for accepting that. I would like again to thank you just very much for joining us at GSR 18. Thank you so much.