 Mr. Chairman, Secretary-General ITU, Deputy Secretary-General, Directors BDT, Army and Standardization, Vice-Chairman, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen. On behalf of the Bhutanese delegation, I would like to thank the Argentinian Government for kindly hosting this very important WTDC 2017 in this great historic city of Buenos Aires. I would also like to congratulate and offer our best wishes to BDT for the 25th anniversary celebration which will be held the after tomorrow. Excellencies, as the distinguished speakers before me, our Government also believes the very important role of ICT in achieving the SDGs and also in terms of enhancing our development. At the Policy Framework, although we are very new to the ICT agenda, the Bhutan Information Communication Media Act 2016 has to be repealed very shortly to be replaced by the ICM Act 2016. In terms of policy, the Bhutan Telecom Communications and Broadband Policy 2014 is the legal framework currently and it is also in this framework that we have received ITU support. The e-government policy is trying to integrate holistically different aspects of our ICT strategies and objectives to bring under one policy framework. In terms of infrastructure, the Government has laid 3,300 kilometres of national fibre optics built with the generous assistance of our development partners, both bilateral and multilateral. These fibres are being given free to our telecom operators in order to keep the prices low, in order to ensure that connectivity is affordable and accessible. Despite this, the people still find the internet prices high and the usage on a turnover basis is still very low. The challenge that we have faced in Bhutan as a very small mountainous rugged country is the last mile connectivity and the marginal cost of delivering internet connectivity beyond the urban centres. But withstanding this, I believe that the SDGs can be facilitated with the use of ICTs but it is access to affordable ICT that is going to be the game changer. As has been in the last 30-40 years of global development, education to be the key in bringing people out of poverty into developing economies. I think it is access to affordable connectivity in today's modern digital economy that is going to be a prerequisite for most of our governments to deliver that inclusive development to our citizens. We have two international gateways and we hope that we will be able to build on this in trying to improve and bring access to a third international gateway in order for Bhutan to be positioned itself and take advantages of the green environment, especially for green data centres. For a small country, we have 79% internet coverage with 93.3% mobile subscribers. However, as I stated earlier, the actual usage is very low and this is primarily due to the affordability issue. As a landlocked country, we are constrained in bringing reasonable priced internet bandwidth and like most LDCs and in particular Bhutan being LLDC, we are heavily constrained in the international bandwidth that we receive from outside. This is an area that we hope that we will be able to receive support and cooperation and also be guided by ITU as they have in bringing us up to date. Especially with their assistance, we have been now able to set up in 2016 Bhutan Computer Incident Response Centre to begin to address the threats of cyber security. With their ITU support, we are also now getting the digital roadmap through. About a month ago, the cabinet had approved our roadmap to ensure that we are ready for digital broadcasting and we look forward to the support of all our development partners. Thank you very much.