 Welcome to the ITU Plenipotentiary Conference 2022 in Bucharest in Romania, where we're here in the last week and I'm very pleased to be joined in the studio today by Mr Mario Manevic, who is the director of ITU's Radio Communication Bureau and has recently been re-elected to that same position. Mario, welcome to the studio. Thank you. Now, I'd like to start off by, let's talk about ITU as a whole. How would you describe ITU's role in the world today? Well, I think that bringing connectivity to all that is a bit of our motto today, it's our main role, but connectivity today doesn't mean only communicating people as it was in the old times. Connectivity today means also getting people into the digital economy, getting societies integrated through the communications applications and everything we use today to learn, to inform ourselves, to even interact with the government, run through the ICT networks. So the main role of the ITU is to make it all happen seamlessly across the world and to bring this connectivity to every inhabitant in the planet regardless of where they are and regardless of their means, which is the most important aspect of it. And what are your priorities as director of radio communication bureau as you're coming in now for your second term? Well, my first priority is to make sure that the World Radio Communication Conference that is going to be held next year is successful. As you know, this conference is the one that updates the radio regulations, which is one of the oldest intergovernmental treaty that governs the use of the spectrum and the satellite orbits around the world. So this is the first priority, but we also have to continue developing standards in order for everybody to be able to use equipment and to communicate in the best possible way with the least possible price. And of course, to bring to everybody around the world the possibilities of doing so by disseminating information, making people aware of the possible uses and how to benefit from all these services and products that we develop. Now, beyond WRC 23, it seems incredible that it feels like a few moments ago we were at WRC 19 in a few seconds, it seems to have gone as safe. We're about to have it in Dubai next year. How can the IT radio communication sector known in the field as ITUR help to meet sustainable development goals and improve people's lives? The first goal we contribute to is the building infrastructure, resilient infrastructure in terms of communication. But this is only the basis for it. Then we contribute to almost all other SDGs because we help agriculture by bringing this connectivity to the rural areas. I'm helping them measuring the rain and the amount of fertilizer that they need in their lands and all these applications that we have with the Internet of Things. We help education with the education and health and government services and even protect the planet through that because all the satellites that observe the Earth, they can prevent climate change, they can tell us about possible disasters and catastrophes to prevent them and then to help mitigate them. So we are contributing nearly to all the SDGs because everything today runs through our networks and more and more wirelessly. So it's more and more not only telecommunications or ICTs but also wireless communication. So using the radio waves, using satellites, using all the radio communication devices around the world. Now, not that the future is ever certain but we seem to be facing more of an uncertain future than ever nowadays. I wanted to ask you, how do you intend to keep the ITU radio communication sector relevant and effective? Well, the most important aspect, and this is what I had as a priority since I was first elected in 2018, is that everybody takes part in our activities and everybody feels ownership about what we develop altogether. So it's very important that all countries come to our activities, join our activities, participate in the decision-making, participate in the development of the studies and the new technologies that we are going to put out there and they all are part of this community, this family that is the ITUR that you mentioned a while ago. So there was a tendency some decades ago that only developed countries and powerful economies would be part of this and developing countries were very passive, just inheriting the decisions that were made. Now they are more and more integrated into our work, they are more and more participating from our work. This was my objective, coming myself from a developing country, for me this was key. And there are more and more countries around the world that have understood the importance of this and now that's a consequence that we have now in WRCs, 4,000 people, easily, because everybody has understood the importance of it and the importance of participating in the process. Not only for the decision-making, but the whole process that leads to the decision-making, if you are not there, then your voice is not heard, your needs are not reflected into the proposals that are going to be approved at the conference. So the most important thing for our relevance is to keep our expertise, of course, to keep our community active, but to put everybody in the process. Finally, as I mentioned before, you're going to be embarking on a new four-year term. How have your insights for the last four years shaped your view of the radio communication technologies that are around the globe? The last four years were marked by the COVID-19 pandemic. So this was a huge impact after, luckily after the WRC-19 that you mentioned in Shem Sheikh, so we could have the conference and we could have it successfully and then the COVID stroke. So maybe other communities would have been left totally resourceless with this, but the radio communication community has endured this pandemic and we continue our work and we continue our studies and our development of proposals for the next conference in a virtual manner, which is a very difficult way of doing it because there is a lot of negotiation and a lot of compromising in order to put all countries in agreement on a given solution. And these kind of things is very difficult to be done through virtual means. But despite that, we advanced a lot and then probably this year, that is a normal year that we will see there. So to answer your question directly, my view is that the humanity is so convinced or countries around the world are so convinced of the importance of this, for the sake of humanity and for the future of humanity, that they are very, they cherish it and they don't want it to break or to get lost or to slow down. So this is the best proof that this treaty that I mentioned to you, the radio regulations, is 116 years old and it was never, it was never, let's say abandoned, it was never violated if you want. Despite the world wars and the tensions that we have, geopolitical tensions that we have around the world, this everybody sees it as above all these things because it's the only way that we can continue. If you don't obey by the radio regulations, your communications will be interfered by others, you will be interfering somebody else. So the only way that it works is if everybody goes by it and everybody has this very clear. So this is a source of pride of the baby we have generated in the ITU that it's still alive and then growing steadily. We look forward to seeing your progress over the next four years too and congratulations for renewing your mandate. Very successfully I can say. So thank you very much for being with us in the studio and let's catch up again very soon. Thank you very much. It was my pleasure and I'm at your disposal. Thank you. Thank you.