 Welcome to WRC 19 the world radio communication conference being held in Shamash Sheikh in Egypt where I'm very pleased to be joined this morning in the studio by Dr. Muhammad El-Maghazi who is the Vice-Chairman for the conference preparatory meeting for 2023 and he's also the Deputy Head of the Egyptian delegation to WRC 19. Welcome to the studio. Thanks Max, thanks. Now it's great to have you here of course and it's great for us to be here. I wanted to say to you thank you very much for hosting us. It's been a really wonderful conference here and I think everybody has been extremely impressed by the whole organization here etc. But let's talk a little bit about you and about the Egyptian delegation here. How have you seen this conference? How important has it been to you to have this conference here? But also the subject is being discussed here as well. Well just for us if you remember 1939 it's all where it's all start Cairo first WRC and now Shamash Sheikh 2019 it's also in Egypt WRC. It's the biggest conference biggest attendance I think of WRC more than 3000 and for the Egyptian delegation we have two main missions. First thing is to take care of the agenda item make sure consensus is reached on everything but the second and maybe more importantly to make sure everything is fine. So we promised you at the beginning good hospitality, good weather, good food and I think we've been keeping our promises until today. You've definitely been keeping your promises. What are some of the topics that have been most of interest to you here at WRC 19? I think 5G or IMT 2020 this is a very hot issue and what we are trying to achieve here is to try to have this balance between the future of IMT 5G but also to protect the current passive services especially in the 24th band. So again our mission here is to make sure the future is safe for all the services and we have this balance between all important radio communication services. Now also there's been quite a lot of talk about satellites here I wanted to ask you what's been your perspective on that? Well again it's all about the balance and I think until now there has been good balance between the future of services like ESAMS and we've tried to accommodate the interest of the satellite community but let's not also forget about important systems such as HAPS and RLAN. So it's not about one agenda item or one community like the mobile or the satellite but to make everybody at the end of this conference equally happy. Let's talk a little bit about connectivity in the region. What's the connectivity landscape here at the moment? I think we've been in very progress especially if you look at Egypt and internet connectivity and internet speeds have been grown especially this year. So I think having WRC in Egypt that would be also an incentive for us to go and be maybe one of the fastest internet speeds at least in the region. Egypt also hosted a conference on digital financial inclusion the Fiji conference in Cairo this year. I wanted to ask you what is the situation with regards to digital financial inclusion here in Egypt? Well I think again it was a good start to have a conference here in Egypt but we're working very closely with all the international partnership and I think we've been progressing on the matter. And what technology is going to help most in terms of connectivity do you think in the next few years? Well we are not sure max about the future and our job here again is to a certain extent to ensure that we have a chance for all technologies equally in all frequencies as much as we can of course. Now you have been here for about 40 days you were telling me I think we've been here almost the same amount of time. I just really wanted to ask you you're also now going to be involved with the conference preparatory meeting for the next conference which is in 2023. What will you be doing at the CPM? Why does that come for those who are not in the know essentially or why does that come straight after this conference? Surely you've had enough meetings so far? Well not enough for many just I think some people want to stay in Sharma Sheikh. We're going to accommodate them next week but CPM is very important because it accommodates the interest of the wireless community for the next four years. So as the first session next week we're going to identify what items to be studied for the next four years. We're also going to assign these items to the respectful study groups. And the second session of the CPM I think maybe it would be in Geneva after four years. At that time we prepare one of the most important documents that CPM report. CPM report is to help the administrative member states, sector members to take a decision on the agenda item of WRC 23. And the end of this week will everybody be going home happy do you think? I'm not going home. I'm going to go to the beach. I'm going to enjoy the weather and let me tell you it's very exceptionally and we are very lucky even for Sharma Sheikh. Okay Mohammed. Thank you so much for taking the time to talk to us today and thank you once again for hosting us on behalf of ITU and for letting us enjoy some of your glorious weather here and of course your wonderful hospitality. Thank you Max. Thank you so much.