 As Tom has said, the topic of today's presentation is the role and potential of an informal international grouping known as MIKTA, which stands for the countries which form the group namely Mexico, Indonesia, Republic of Korea, Turkey and Australia. I will speak first on the evolution and role of MIKTA and on MIKTA's current priorities with Australia as chair. My colleagues will then speak about MIKTA from their country's perspectives. As Tom mentioned, MIKTA was formed in September 2013 by the foreign ministers of Mexico, Indonesia, the Republic of Turkey, Turkey and Australia, met in the margins of the United Nations General Assembly Leaders Week in New York. As an informal, consultative and cross-regional group, MIKTA was formed in recognition of the importance of strong international collaboration and partnerships as the most effective ways to address global challenges in an age of accelerating change. While a diverse group, MIKTA members like Ireland share the core values of a commitment to democracy, human rights, open trade and economic development. MIKTA also seeks to strengthen multilateralism, facilitate creative and pragmatic solutions to global and regional challenges and to reform global governance structures. Despite its inception, MIKTA countries have also strengthened bilateral ties and enhanced cooperation between them. Through coordination and mutual collaboration on issues of common interest, MIKTA can add value to global and regional responses. Regional actors are gaining new prominence and major emerging market economies are exerting greater influence both globally and regionally. MIKTA members share a capacity to pursue common interests on the world stage, for example in the World Trade Organization and periodically in the United States Security Council, with all five members having served on the UNSC in the last seven years. All the MIKTA countries are also members of the G20, the Group of 20, which of course is the premier forum for international economic cooperation and decision making. The G20 accounts for 85% of the world economy, 76% of global trade and two-thirds of the world's population, including more than half of the world's poor. The combined GDP of MIKTA countries is over 5.8 trillion, which is about 8% of the world's economy and this share is expected to grow. The combined population of the MIKTA countries is around 530 million, about 8% of the world's population. The MIKTA countries are like-minded on many global issues and all are active contributors on the global stage. As such, MIKTA can contribute in a constructive fashion to facilitate solutions to global and regional challenges, including the changing balance of power, the increasing importance of regionalism, the growing relevance of non-state actors, nuclear non-proliferation and the fight against terrorism. The first foreign ministers meeting was in the margins of the UN General Assembly in New York in September 2013. Mexico chaired the group for its first year, followed by the Republic of Korea. Under their leadership, MIKTA's role and profile developed in keeping with the vision that MIKTA could provide pragmatic and constructive solutions to challenges affecting global prosperity and security. Now under Australia's leadership, the five countries will keep working to develop MIKTA into a meaningful cooperation mechanism. We seek to promote MIKTA as an important initiative that can play a constructive and significant role within the international community and a bridging role between developed and developing economies. Australia is pleased to be delivering a productive year as chair of MIKTA and is keen to ensure that MIKTA delivers tangible outcomes, in particular in terms of embedding habits of collaboration in the multilateral fora. At a recent MIKTA senior officials meeting held in Sydney earlier this year, seven ongoing core priorities were agreed. These were international energy governance and security, energy energy access, counter-terrorism and security, peacekeeping, trade in the economy, gender equality, democracy and good governance and development cooperation. Recent activities to support these priorities include a MIKTA humanitarian dialogue in the margins of the World Humanitarian Summit in support of summit outcomes and their implementation, especially on the topics of disaster and gender, that was on the 23rd of May in Istanbul, and a meeting of MIKTA delegates in the margins of the 11th International Renewable Energy Agency, otherwise known as IRENA, the IRENA Council meeting in Abu Dhabi on the 26th of May, which discussed MIKTA's promotion of energy access. Upcoming activities include a joint statement at the conference of state parties to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in June in New York and a joint statement on women's rights and the 2030 Agenda for Standable Development at the Human Rights Council in June in Geneva. MIKTA foreign ministers will meet again during the leaders week in the UN in New York, and they will also have various bilateral meetings. MIKTA also reinforces bilateral relationships within the group. For example, MIKTA countries have hosted exchanges of parliamentarians, journalists, diplomats, students and young professionals. Other types of joint activities that MIKTA might undertake include joint statements. For example, MIKTA issued a very important statement on the 9th of January, MIKTA issued a statement on a DPRK nuclear test, which I think is an example of how MIKTA can really engage and, if you like, show its relevance and meaningfulness and make a very important international contribution in areas such as topics such as the North Korea nuclear tests and security issues in that region. Other activities include non-papers that contribute to progress on multilateral issues, advocating common messages and workshops and side events in the margins of major international events. MIKTA is also relevant to Ireland and the EU member states. In January 2015 the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade released its foreign policy review, the Global Ireland, Ireland's foreign policy for changing world. The Global Ireland reaffirmed Ireland's principal engagement in international development, human rights, disarmament and UN peacekeeping, and a greater emphasis on global engagement to help secure a prosperous future for Ireland. Ireland has extensive people to people, trade and investment, educational, sporting, cultural and other links with each of the MIKTA countries. MIKTA's merchandise trade with Ireland increased over 25% from 3.4 billion in 2013 to 4.3 billion in 2014 Euro, which is higher than Ireland's merchandise trade with Italy or Spain. MIKTA's diversity and versatility make it a new model for cross-regional and value-added partnership and, as such, MIKTA will serve as a bridgehead for fostering various forms of cooperation. To conclude, MIKTA represents a forum for dialogue and engagement between the EU and five key regional players in the multilateral context on a range of global, regional and transnational issues, and as such it is a representative and a good example of new and non-traditional mechanisms for global and regional cooperation. Thank you.