 Maybe first you can say a little bit about where you come from, what you have been doing so far, and what your take is on what's happening with your country, with Libya. My name is Farida Allagi. Born in Libya 69 years ago. I studied in Libya then I went to the United States. I graduated with my degree in sociology, I'm a sociologist, but in Libya I've been studying about sociology and philosophy. I have been an activist like I've been telling you earlier since I was 15 years old, marching in the streets in Libya, supporting the Algeria Revolution, the Palestinian Revolution, dreaming of the beautiful future of the Arab world. Then I graduated from Libya, went to the United States. There has been a change in 1969. We were happy that the revolution took place in Libya, despite that my family were part of the old regime, but I was very much wanting to have the spirit of the 60s in the Arab world, the changes, the dreams, the unity, the good thinking that we had during that time. So we celebrated the revolution, but sadly only in two years we discovered the nature of this revolution. I joined the opposition, my husband and I, and I lived for 42 years out of Libya facing the dictatorship regime of Gaddafi. During that time I have been working closely with the United Nations in the development field. I moved to Saudi Arabia. I lived in Saudi Arabia for 18 years. I've been working in an international humanitarian development fund. To the surprise of many people might not be believing that. I have been very lucky to live in Saudi Arabia as a woman, because in my opinion the strongest Arab women in the region are the Saudi women in one way or the other. I believe that the humanists are everywhere in this globe. I started my, maybe you heard me saying that. I'm always saying that when I was four years old in Tripoli, I started my education in the church. And those were the good old days. My father was a Muslim, a conservative Muslim, but he wanted me to go to a preschool. So I've been taught by nuns in the church. My best friends were Italian. Many of them were Jews. We never knew who is what. We were just loving each other, playing with each other. So this early childhood education, and that's why I'm a very strong believer in promoting, if we really need to change this world in the future. Honestly speaking, I gave up changing the minds of adults. We need to start with children, young, young children from childhood. If we would have started that 50 years ago, I don't think we would have been in this sad times that we are now facing. And then you came to Brussels to repress Libya. Yes, I never thought that I ever, ever would work with governments. All my life I have been in poor positions. And then after the revolution, I went back to Libya. And I was really again my second era of my dreams to rebuild Libya because I have, I've been lucky because I gained so much experience. And they have a big international network in different countries. So I really wanted to go back and work from the second line, supporting the youth and supporting the women. To be honest with you, this is my vision also for the future. I think a new global alliance has to be created by, particularly in our region, 70 to 75% are women and youth. So I wanted very much to really share what I have learned, whether positive or negative with my Libyan friends and Libyan colleagues. And then I have been asked to come and represent Libya at the EU. I resisted for three months. I knew that I wouldn't be able to shift from an activist with all my, you know, I have always been saying what I have to say. I cannot be very much diplomatic. Of course I can understand, I can respect, I can listen. But if I see something that's going wrong, I have to say impossible, it's not going right. So I came, I stayed a year and a half. Of course the EU is important, the EU is a big organization, has many good people. And the EU politically, I have lots of criticism from the EU politically. On the development, on the education, on the science, on the technology, on other issues. I think there are some good achievements that we all can share and we will learn. But sadly I think when I came here, I was very enthusiastic to really put Libya on the agenda of the EU, clarify to the parliamentarian and to the commissioner and to the officials the real situation of Libya. And what I discovered sadly, because we needed the help of the international community, sadly of course at the end of the day I have to blame ourselves, I have to blame the Libyans. Because if the Libyans would have been able to come together and really work together and understand each other and accept each other and forget the past and look forward and not to be so selfish, I think we wouldn't have needed the international intervention. But again as you know sadly, Libya is no longer for the Libyans, everybody interfered. So the EU and the United Nations and particularly the United Nations invoice, the three of them that came, sadly enough, they contributed to confusing the Libyans, dividing the Libyans, not understanding the intricate of the Libyan culture, choosing at many times the wrong minds and the wrong people and the wrong race, putting aside anybody who thinks or anybody who can say the truth or anybody who understands or anybody that really wants to put themselves on the set. You know, I felt a time very angry because I felt that as if they have all the solution, as if they know everything, as if we have to be taught what to do. And as I was telling you earlier, here we are, 50 years ago, 60, 70 years ago we have been colonized and the colonizer were really controlling us. Then we left the colonizer and we moved to the new dictatorship regimes almost in most of the Arab countries. Dictatorship regimes that have been supported by whom, have been supported, at least when it comes to Libya because we had the oil, we had the gas, we had the geographical location, and nobody at that time, you know, was very keen to see the implementation of, quote, unquote, the women's rights or the human rights or the youth rights or whatever rights and the democratic transformation. So I really think I felt when I was around these EU buildings and these meetings and they kept talking and explaining and kept watching and not only that, then I had been put aside. I had no interlocutor. I read about the decision about Libya and I am here representing Libya in the media, in the newspaper. Of course, of course, we have not been asked on many, many major decisions that have been taking place. Very, very few people have been in contact. I am invited to many technical meetings, for sure, but not to read the big political debates.