 Today is Monday the 14th of November and it's the first day of the second week of the COP. The COP runs over two weeks and they are in effect two different COPs. The first week are negotiations between negotiators who are generally government officials from the various governments and they try and negotiate the decisions and finish them by the end of the week. It's quite typical that they don't finish by Friday. They go into Saturday and Sunday and negotiate during the weekend and sometimes spill into Monday and that's what's happened here. So the negotiations are continuing today Monday even as I speak. Some have been completed but not everything so they're not all ready to go to the ministers. And in the second week of the COP starting on Monday the ministers start arriving and they take over the final bit of the negotiations and they don't talk about text so much. It's about wrapping everything up into the high-level messages and something called the Marrakech call for action that is also being drafted at the same time. So we have another five days of final negotiations with the final message to come out. Today I'm going to focus a little bit more on the Bangladesh delegation and its role in the negotiations. Bangladesh has been involved in the negotiations. From the very beginning we have a set of very good negotiators led at the technical level by the Secretary of the Ministry of Environment and Forest, Dr. Kamaluddin. Some senior negotiators within the government like Dr. Nurul Gader and Zia Al Haq and others. Also a team of experts who are not government officials but have been doing negotiations for a long time within the Bangladesh delegation like Dr. Ayman Shah and Dr. Mizan Khan who's both professors of universities and several others as well. So Bangladesh has a team of very very experienced negotiators who are involved in the negotiations for many years. They belong to the Bangladesh belongs to the least developed countries group. So they negotiate in many cases on behalf of the least developed countries group. Another one is Hafeez Khan, a young lawyer who's part of the Warsaw International Mechanism loss and damage negotiation track on behalf of the least developed countries. So then Bangladesh negotiators have been much engaged in the negotiations for the last week. This afternoon the Minister of Environment, Anwar Sen Munju has arrived with his colleagues and we had a debrief with him this evening with all the other Bangladeshis. There's a big contingent of Bangladeshi NGOs, people like Farah Kabir from Action Aid and Rizal Karim from Coast and many others. And tomorrow we expect the arrival of the Prime Minister of Bangladesh Shekhasina for the high level session. She has accepted the invitation of the King of Morocco for the high level session where we will open the first meeting of the Paris Agreement and she will be there. It's more of a ceremonial occasion than it is a substantive occasion. There won't be negotiations around it. But at least in Morocco we will have the first meeting of the parties of the Paris Agreement which is called the CMA. And so we hope to make that into a big occasion. The Prime Minister of Bangladesh being here as one of the few heads of state attending will give Bangladesh a high profile. We're expecting her to make it with major speech. Perhaps talk about the national initiative for a national mechanism on loss and damage amongst other things. And so Bangladesh has over the years played a very important role in the negotiations as negotiators and also an important role at the political level, particularly by the Prime Minister Shekhasina. So Bangladesh should be proud of their performance in the climate change negotiations over the years.