 Thank you very much Mr. Chairman. Excellencies, Honourable delegates, colleagues, friends. I'm honoured to have this opportunity to serve the ITU for a second term as Deputy Secretary-General. And I look forward to working with all of you and continuing my excellent working relationship and friendship with Secretary-General Hu Linjiao for another four years. I am sure we will continue our success working with the new management team. I would like to thank the UK government for its strong support for my re-election as Deputy Secretary-General. Especially Ministers Lord Ashton and Lord Ahmed and also Ambassador Julian Braithwaite and all the UK team for their tremendous effort. Vince Affleck has supported me in all five of my elections and will be retiring at the end of this year. So a special thanks to Vince. I thank most sincerely all those member states that voted for me, for your trust in me and for your continuing support. I also thank Brahim Asano for his great contribution to the ITU. Like me, he is a champion of the role of ICTs for sustainable development. And I hope that our union will continue to benefit from his commitment in the future. I also thank Brahim for making my re-election more exciting than it otherwise would have been. I would like to thank Francois Ronsi for his excellent collaboration, not only during his last eight years as Director of the BR, but for over 25 years that we have worked together. It has always been a privilege and a pleasure to have worked with Francois. Thank you Francois. I would like to thank Chesa Blee for his collaboration during his last four years as Director of TSB, and I look forward to continuing that for the next four years. I thank the excellent ITU staff for their support and dedication to the union. Most of all, I thank my wonderful wife, Catherine. I would not be here without her. I'm sorry to have put her through the stress of another re-election, but hope you'll be able to relax with me this evening as I've booked dinner for just the two of us in the Bergall Arab. So forgive me if you don't see me at too many receptions this evening. Thank you all again, and I look forward to working with all of you over the next four years. Thank you Chairman.