 2023 presented us with important opportunities to recover, to build, and to reform on our path towards a renaissance. At AFL, we have progressed in our path towards a better food security for all, leaving no one behind. We have worked tirelessly together to bring food and air culture to the top of the international agenda. We have brought the message home that agriculture is a climate solution, but we have to produce more with less. We have supported members to achieve this for the benefit of farmers, women, youth, indigenous peoples, and rural development, and for the well-being of the people and the planet. We have continued to mobilize and volunteer contributions to sustain the transformation of global agricultural systems, ensuring that the financing is directed to those who need it most, small-order farmers. We continue to affirm that peace is prerequisite for food security, and that the right to food is a basic human right. We have remained committed to the scaling up assistance to those most in need. Taking all necessary measures to do so within our mandate, focusing on the emergency agricultural assistance, the 2023 Water Food Forum has once again affirmed that youth are the agents of the chain for the transformation we need, and we must continue to support them. The World Food Day 2023 theme, water is life, water is food. Leave it no one behind, but the vital connection between water and the food. Without water, there is no food security. With my new term as FL Director General for the next four years, the new dynamic FL is in our well-positioned to better support the members and to join hands with partners for the four betters, better production, better nutrition, a better environment, and a better life. I wish you all a pleasant, peaceful, and prosperous 2024.