 Thank you very much Mr. Facilitator, Thierry. I'd like to congratulate you for this conference that kept all its promises. I am the president of the Economic, Social and Environmental Council, which is as simple as that. That play an advisory role toward the government and the parliament. I like to talk about Senegal, give a little bit of background. It's a small country. We like to call it the entry of Africa when you come from from the USA. We are just facing New York, which wasn't a luck. That's one of the biggest slave reports. We are 16 million, so a small population, but we are mostly known for our political stability. We are a country of 97% of Muslim, and our first president happened to be a Christian in 1960. He's the father of the independence. He has been supported at that time by all religious leaders against his opponent, who himself was a Muslim, a lawyer going by the name of Lamin Gaye. So what I like to show there is that we've been sort of nurturing internal cohesion and interreligion relationship quite peacefully. So we are a country, an Islamic country of tolerance and peace, and it translated into stability. We are very, very proud of that, and we really would like to sort of nurture it and sustain it. That's the first thing I would like to say about Senegal. Second thing is the democracy. We have changed peacefully president over time, the first one, Leopold Sédard Senghor, who happened to be a member of the Académie Française. He spoke French so well that he has been appointed at the Académie Française, which showed the historic relationship with France. And then he resigned from power in 1981. His successor, President Abdoujouf, left power in 2000 after democratic elections. Succeeded by President Abdoulaye Ouad, who himself was defeated in 2012 by the sitting president, Makisal, all of that in a peaceful process. So we do think that we do have a strong democracy that is ingrained in the political culture, and we work to sustain that, because it's never a given. We all have to work with it. Second thing I'd like to say about Senegal. We do have also a very, what we call Ahmer républicaine, which means an army that goes by the rule of democracy, that respect the constitution, and we never know of coup d'etat in Senegal. So that kind of defeat all the stereotype we are displaying about Africa. The army stay in its role. It's very much involved in peacekeeping operation all over the world. And as we speak also in Mali, we worked also in Gambia, the neighboring country of Gambia, and the army is very professional and stand by the constitution. We also do have a very strong press. Some would say too strong. The liberty of press is a given with journalists expressing themselves in a free way. So this is what is the ingredient of the Senegalese stability. When it comes to the economics, because of course, if you want to sustain that, you have to create wealth. We are a very young country. 70% of the population is below the age of 40, which trigger strong challenges. The most important one is related to, of course, youth employment. So President Maquisal, when he came as the head of state, at that time I studied with him as Minister of Justice. The next year he worked on a plan that is called Plans Senegal Emergent. We have one of the key actors sitting here, which is Mubarak Law. I have to acknowledge him. He was also part of the team. He's very known by the whole forum. He's been attending it often. So he was also part of those who reflect on this plan that was set from 2013 all the way to 2035. What it shows, the length of the plan, is that if you can count on a solid democracy that is ingrained in the political culture, you don't only think for yourself, because we have a two-term system. You can also think for the future generation, ensuring that democracy will play normally and whoever will be at the seat as a president will be following the accumulative success, because that's how it is seen. This Plans Senegal Emergent, which means how to make sure that Senegal emerge as a developed country, has three pillars. The first pillar is economy, as I said. It's very important to create wealth for your youth, for the women. So that's the first pillar. And it has been quite successful, because last year we enjoyed 6.5% economic growth. So whatever we were doing, it seems to be working, because we are below the African average of economic growth, that is between 4.1%, and we enjoy 6.5%. So it is working. What happened to have such a big growth? First of all, it is around good governance, making sure that the revenues are well spent. And they have been spent in a sector that employ most of Senegalese workers, which is agriculture. So the idea was how to modernize agriculture. So a lot of investment have been made, modernizing equipment, moving from traditional agriculture to modernize, more mechanical agriculture. So the result was that we, for instance, we grow peanuts, is one of our most products. We quite double the production in six years. So that contributed to the growth. Infrastructure, they've been an immense infrastructure to close the gap between urban areas and rural areas, because that's also one of the challenges we've been having. When the colonizer came, they focused on the cities, because that's where they used to live and how they organized the economy. So there is a huge gap, most of the time, between the rural places and urban. When you come in African cities, you can enjoy a lifestyle, comfortable, but you drive maybe 10 kilometers further, you are in rural Africa and you can see the gap. So President Sal was very, very, very keen on bridging the gap, and he came up with what we call a capture plan, rural plan, and by investing in roads, in access to water, by the way Senegal is going to achieve universal access to water. And we are hopeful that in four years, we will even achieve universal access to electricity. So all of that put together, trigger more production, and that's what explained this growth. Of course, he also invested in fishery, because we are a fishing country, we have 800 kilometers, of course, and I'll talk about the challenges related to environment. So he also subsidized production, trying also to modernize fishery equipment and small boats, so that also increased the production in that sector. The second pillar is about human development. If you have an economy, you have resources, by the way Senegal is going to be oil and gas-producing country. We are very happy about that. And I also like to point out, we have a, Muhammad is here, one of our Mauritanian friends. The gas was discovered at the border between Mauritania and Senegal, but in high sea. So where is the well? Well, it could be more in the Mauritanian side or a little bit in the Mauritanian Senegalese side. So what the two president, former president Aziz, and he has to be praised for that, and President Sal, too, has to be praised for that. They sat down and agreed that we're going to do 50-50. I think we didn't talk a lot about it, but this is sort of a very positive way of solving issues in Africa. We know that a lot of wars and turmoil arise in this kind of situation, where everybody want to sort of take advantage, but they come up and decide that it's going to be 50-50. So I think this is a good lesson learned and a good case study to be published. So human capital was very, very, very strong on that. President Maxal came up with creating universities, but investing also in a quality education, primary to secondary level, because we also still have huge gap in terms of schooling, but we made a lot of progress. This year, for instance, there were more female sitting for examination to go to secondary school than male in a 96% Muslim country. That's a huge advancement, where women are more sort of present in schooling than men at the primary. But of course, as we go, there are some social challenges, and you find fewer women maybe in the universities, but there is a nice trend that is being built and designed. So that is also very, very supported. In the human capital, there is also a decision. We do have what we call la délégation à l'entrepreneuriat rapide. I would translate it in sort of a window, financial window to support, especially women and youth, in terms of promoting entrepreneurship and supporting small projects and small enterprises, and a huge amount of money has been put in that strategy. So that's the second pillar, how the country is going to build quality human resources, including women and young people, so you can support your economic plan, because most of the time, you do have the gap. You would see the opportunities in mining, in gas, et cetera, but on the other hand, you would not see quality human resources to be in a situation of good management. So that also is part of the plan. So that was the second pillar. And the third one, which is equally important, that's good governance. And I think Senegal has been recognized as one of the good countries, trying to really promote good governance. We had a recognition from Mohibraim index. We made huge progress. We still have challenges, of course, but that is one of the priority of President Makisal and his government. And in this third pillar, of course, there is cooperation, and cooperation at different level. Whether it's at the regional level, subregional, I would say, ECOWAS, that's the Economic Commission for West African countries. We are very interrelated, and we do have a common market. We have the common currency, the SAFAR, which we inherited from our relationship, ancient relationship with France. And I must say, there is a debate also in countries as whether we should start reflecting on our own currency, but that's ongoing debates, and we are doing it also with our partners. And then you do have the African market, which is the bigger, meaning through what happened recently, the African trade zone, which will present Africa as the biggest common market, actually. We didn't speak a lot about it, but it's going to be one of the biggest common markets. The head of state agreed upon it, so I think it's opportunity to commerce within ourselves, because this is also one of the challenges in Africa. We don't trade much within ourselves. It's between less than 10 percent intra-Africa trading, although if you go to Asia or even to Europe, it might be up to 70 percent. So with this common zone of trading, we should be moving forward. Yes, there is some, of course, I have to talk about the challenges. The challenges I talked about it, it's a youth employment. Youth employment, and we have a gap in terms of industrialization. That's for his second term, one of the priority of President Makisal. How are we going to import less goods and manufacture them here in Senegal? I think Ethiopia is doing a good work. That's also what we would like to do. Second is environment. I talk about 800 kilometers, of course. We are seeing, see, you know, sort of invading some of the lands, and it's also an issue, a challenge that we are trying to face. And of course, security, not within Senegal, but as a sub-regional concern, we do know the situation of Nigeria, terrorism, of Mali, and it's closer and closer to Senegal. And we are also an actor because we are supporting our Malian friends, but that's also a concern that we have to list among the challenges. And what are the way forward? The way forward is really building upon our experience, building stronger institution. I think when it comes to the political process in Senegal, it's already well ingrained, and that's one of the given, good governance, and of course use at the center of whatever we are doing. Because as I said, that's 70% of our citizens and whatever policy is being developed, it has to be centered, youth centers and women centers. When you take both groups, it's 70% of the population. And in a place like this one, we also have to talk about cooperation. How are we going to sort of develop stronger links within our traditional friends? Of course, I talked about the relationship, very ancient relationship with France, but as I said, starting also in ECOWAS, how are we going to have a common vision on these issues? Of course, on a win-win basis, I do think that there's been a history and there will be a future of our relationship. And of course, opening up to Africa and to the rest of the world. I could speak on and on and on, but I think I'm going to leave it here. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. I mean, that was fascinating.