 I want to welcome you to St. Lucia. As you know, St. Lucia and England have shared historic ties. So I want to welcome you to St. Lucia. I want to tell you we have an accent relationship with your team in St. Lucia. They have done a very good job. I want to thank you also for, I'm sure your High Commissioner here must have told you, we were very concerned about our status as far as travel is concerned. And we are doing, the COVID pandemic is affecting the entire world. And in St. Lucia, we are doing our best to mitigate the effects of COVID. I can assure you that the safety of our citizens and the safety of our visitors are key to our survival. Because St. Lucia depends very heavily. In fact, over 50% of our GDP is based on tourism. And we will try our best to secure our citizens and our visitors. So I want to tell you that the government of St. Lucia will do whatever we have to do to ensure that we mitigate the effects of COVID and St. Lucia becomes a country where all be it different, but you can enjoy a general country. We also have very serious initiatives to discuss with you. As you know, I'm sure the Minister for Infrastructure will enlighten you on the work we're doing on our roads. And again, the West Coast of our country, that's where we have the pitons, pitons is a well-herited site. And then we needed to improve that network. That initiative was taken before I was in government. But as I've always said, when even an initiative is started, once it's a good initiative, we shall continue. So we want to continue that work for the employment that it will create and for the infrastructure improvement. So we thank you. I think that initiative was started by Prime Minister Cameron. Yes, that's right. And it took some time, but it started at most things. We also understand the vagaries of the weather and climate change. It's very important to us. Our region can be wiped out, literally wiped out in a few hours with a hurricane. We can be here today, and tomorrow our country is completely wiped out, and I mean completely. So climate change is very important to us. We look forward to the interventions in Glasgow. That's where my Ministry of State Development is going to be there. I have not yet decided whether I can travel. But I'm thinking based on the world of good and the importance of that trip, I think I may have to be in Glasgow in 2016. So we look forward to the interventions. We look forward because our islands suffer the most, but we emit the least, which is unfortunate. But this is the right of life, and we hope that we can make some serious interventions at that seminar. So the whole world can benefit from this. Climate change also affects everybody. We have bought this strange weather, like in New York, a hurricane affected the world. In England, you had your share of floods. So climate change affects everyone. So the economic solution will try its best to make our contribution to that. We also have concerns about our debt. Our debt levels are rising, and it has been aggravated by the pandemic. We know that because of our status, we cannot get loans at an affordable rate. Because it's said that we are not at the apokan tree, but we are. But we hope that there can be some. Our partners can help us to graduate so that we can get loans at a better rate than we can because in there, our employment situation is worrisome, particularly among the youth. This is why our government has initiated a youth economy, where we hope to get young people involved in sustainable employment, employment in areas that they enjoy, and we've coined it a youth economy. So I'm sure we'll have some discussions with you on that matter. Generally, we know you've helped us in crime, again, a vexing problem, but only we can solve it by cooperation. So we look forward to our discussions. We look forward to continued cooperation within the country hours, as we look to have a world that the effects of the pandemic will be lessened. We look forward to that day. We know I've been speaking to the Commission about vaccines, because you have available some vaccines for us. We're thinking of how we can use them, but there's still a lot of vaccine hesitancy in our country. But we are trying to persuade people for education that they should be vaccinated, because we believe that vaccinations are the only way now, at least to stem this. So we look forward to our discussions. Welcome to the solution. And we hope to have a very friendly discussion. I'm here really in my role as the adaptation champion for the COP26 presidency. It's a great title. What it really meant was we, as we took on the presidency, the Prime Minister Boris Johnson was very clear that he wanted to make sure that this COP, that we are hosting, rebalanced across the piece all the issues from the Paris agreement, not only the challenges of mitigation and making sure that countries who are major emitters work very hard to reduce those, which is obviously critical, but the other issues, both in terms of finance, as you mentioned, and how finance is allocated and is accessible, and the challenges of adaptation and resilient investments are made so that we look across the whole piece, because it should be looked at holistically, as you say, for St Lucia and for other regional countries. The issue is not the mitigation challenge, but the ability to be resilient to those weather impacts, which are coming even if we manage to solve mitigation tomorrow. We've had those impacts already and they're coming for years to come, so the ability to become more resilient is critical. So that's very much my focus, and it's been, I've had a fascinating visit across the region for the last week, visiting both projects where the UK has been working in country to help develop resilient agriculture, resilient investments, and so on, to understand how that's working in practice and where you, as nations with very, as you say, very urgent challenges are thinking about them, and indeed hearing from all of you where the problems lie, and hopefully I can take those back and really try and drive that through. The one I hear most loudly is the access to finance in order to make those investments, in order to reduce the risks, which is, you know, in a circular sense, clearly the right solution that we want to try and achieve, so that's a very important focus. I think of this COP coming up as the, if Paris was, if the Paris Agreement was signed on the basis of why we're doing it, this is all about how we deliver now. So those tools that need to be put in place, if they're not there, already ought to work better if they don't, so that countries like St Lucia are able to present the case for the sort of, for instance, we were just discussing with you, and this for education schools that are resilient to hurricanes so that you are able to get children back to school after the weather shock has been. So looking across the piece, that's important. I'm really excited to be able to visit the road project yesterday and to get a real sense of, you know, how important it's going to be and how much opportunity it will give, not only to have a resilient road, but the opportunity for economic growth to move to other parts of the island that aren't there now. So I think at so many levels, making sure that access to finance works better because not only does it obviously provide resilient investment, but the opportunity exactly like your road to prove that it helps you as a country to be able to grow your economy more widely. I think on the challenges of COVID, I absolutely hear you and it's great to see the work that you're doing to try and reduce vaccine hesitancy. It's a challenge in a number of countries and trying to, you know, get to grips with the reasons why and they're different in every country, but get to grips with that as well. I was talking to someone yesterday about it and the challenging me on how we'd achieved it and it was a very interesting challenge and actually we did it by our GPs and our doctors and nurses in our communities being the advocates, in fact. So it was where those relationships with our most vulnerable were strongest, where the trust was strongest. It was our doctors and nurses persuading, you know, the most vulnerable to have the vaccine and to come, you know, get beyond that anxiety because it was new that there was, you know, the worry of whether it was okay. But I think that continues to be a challenge that we all want to encourage you to resolve because of course that's one of the reasons, as you say, to our UK solution relationship and our, you know, the tourist trade, which we want to see back up and running as strong as possible for you, one of the criteria for our system, our foreign travel system for UK citizens is obviously the level of vaccination in country which then demonstrates that reduced risk. So that can usually, I know something that the High Commissioner will be, you know, happy to work with you with to make sure that those messages, as you make progress, are fed back into the UK system. But really it's such a pleasure to be here and to have a chance to really hear from all of you about what's important and what you want to see from COP26, the sort of practical outcomes, the roadmap that helps St Lucia to make progress in some of the challenges that the climate shocks, that as I say, we know are coming and are tougher than ever before. How that roadmap from COP26 can be as useful as possible to your administration as you tackle, I know what it's like. I'm the UK Energy Minister in the UK. You know, tackle the day-to-day challenges of making those transformative investments.