 We are here at the World Telecommunication Development Conference 2014 in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. I am very pleased to be joined by Mr Nasser bin Hamad who is Senior Manager for International Affairs for the Telecommunication Regulatory Authority of the UAE. Mr bin Hamad, thank you very much indeed for being with us in the studio today. Thank you so much. I would like to start off by talking about the venue here. We are here in the United Arab Emirates. It has been the venue here for a number of ITU events. I wanted to ask your take on this. Well, thank you so much first of all. Let me start by saying, following the successful hosting of the three major ITU events back in 2012 here in Dubai and here in the premises of Dubai Water Center was a very successful story for the government of United Arab Emirates and very special to the Telecommunication Regulatory Authority. Following the successful of these mega events for the first time in the Middle East and in Dubai was giving us a very good experience actually. The government of United Arab Emirates therefore and following that successful hosting of these major events had decided back and had decided again to bring back again the one of the mega events of the development sector of the union that is the World Telecommunication Development Conference. So here we are. We are honored and pleased to have again the one of the union conferences, the World Telecommunication Development Conference 2014. WTDC is a major event on the ITU calendar. It's once every four years. I'm just wondering in terms of your perspective, in terms of perspective of the UAE, why is this conference important? Well actually this conference is considered to be the conference which looks after the needs and requirements of the telecommunication sector in the world. ITU being a major player in this field worldwide. I think the conference is really a very good opportunity basically for those involved parties concerned but is worldwide to come under one roof and discuss their needs very openly, very transparently and join together in drawing the path for the telecommunication sector for the coming four years. That's why I strongly believe that the World Telecommunication Development Conference of ITU is the conference which is looking after basically these needs, these requirements of both the developing countries and the developed countries as well as the least developing countries through the discussions, negotiations, debates that goes all over the two weeks, a period of time discussing a variety of resolutions, discussing a variety of recommendations, issues here and there until they come to a close consensus between them and approving the resolutions which are going to really set the path for the future. And very much also for the planning potential conference happening later on this year in Busan. Yes that's right because the planning potential conference which is going to take place in Busan by the end of this year is going to set the strategic plans and goals and objectives of the union, the entire union with the individual sectors for the coming four years. And of course in this year we have the World Telecommunication Development Conference which is going to give its output and results that is going to be resulted from here into the agenda of the planning potential conference. So I believe the entire world is just waiting for the planning potential conference to come in Busan in this year so that they participate all together in defining the goals, objectives and the plans for the entire union. The theme here is broadband for sustainable development. I know UAE is making great strides in terms of broadband connectivity. What are the outcomes that you hope will come from this conference? Well I believe talking from the perspective of the government of United Arab Emirates and more especially the telecommunication regulatory authority, we don't have an individual agenda in this conference. The agenda is basically regional agenda. That's why you see there is the Arab regional proprietary group which has took the role to look after the agenda and the theme of the conference. That's why you see many resolutions have been set, have been defined, have been drafted by the Arab group and basically discussed here in the conference. Moreover, there are a set of initiatives being presented and proposed by the Arab regional proprietary group itself. And one of those initiatives is basically talking about the broadband connectivity. And this came actually from the strong need and the strong requirement of the Arab region itself to look after this part of the broadband connectivity. Not all Arab administrations today having equal sizes of the broadband connectivity. It varies between the Arab countries themselves. That's why we really need to see by the efforts and help and assistance of the BDT and the experts in the BDT in the next agenda of the four years, the four coming years after the conference to really engage together the private sector and the government sector to engage in shaping the future of such broadband connectivity. Nasser bin Hamad, thank you very much indeed for being with us today. Thank you so much for the support. Thank you. And thank you for watching too.