 We will start our plenary session on Eastern Europe, South Caucasus and Central Asia facing the Ukrainian war. I'm really happy to moderate this session because it's the first time, I think, that we have at the WPC the participant from post-Soviet countries. And I will come back on this definition of post-Soviet countries. I'm very glad to introduce Olga Rozhka, Chief of Staff of the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and European Integration of Moldova, Roman Vesilenko, Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan, thank you to be here in person, and Lasha Darsale by Vizio, First Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs of Georgia. The Ukraine is the first victim of the Russian aggression, but other neighboring countries are also suffering from shocks at different levels. I think about the flow of migrants. I think about energy pressures by Russia. It should be noted that a great part of Kazakhstan gas pass by Kaspian pipeline consortium through Russian territory. There are unresolved conflicts in Transnistria, in Moldova, in Abkhazia, and South Ossetia, in Georgia, and there are many Russian speakers in the north of Kazakhstan. As we can notice, we didn't put in the title of this panel post-Soviet states. We preferred the long version Eastern Europe, South Caucasus, and Central Asia with three countries, each represented here from these three geographical area, because three decades after the fall of the Soviet Union, the question lies about the coherence of this space.