 Thank you very much. I'll start by thanking IOM, Mr. Swing, who has always had the ability and possibility of organizing these conferences, which are very interesting. My experience with IOM started a long time ago when I started a campaign for giving value to highly qualified migrants with my doctor colleague. I therefore started with IOM and have had a good collaboration with the organization. My story as a migrant started in 1983. What I've heard is very touching and that encourages me because I realize that we're not alone. There are lots of us with the same kind of experience and what I'm happy about is that we can come together and exchange our experiences. So I arrived in Italy in 1983 at 19 years old. I was 19 years old with my baccalaureate. My dream was to become a doctor from I was a child. I always dreamed of becoming a doctor to be able to help the weakest, to help people who were the neediest. I was determined not to divert from this objective. I needed to do that and this is the only dream I had. I was born in Bassa, which was 2,000 kilometers away from where I was born. I had the only university with, was the only university with the faculty of medicine. However, I could not register there. I was born in Kambuwe in the Katanga in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and 200 kilometers away. I spent my childhood in Lumumbashi. The opportunity to live up my dream started when I got a scholarship from the diocese and it was a scholarship to be taken up abroad. But I didn't have the choice of country. I didn't know where to go. My aim was to be able to just study medicine. So I was finally able to have a scholarship to study medicine. This was Italy. I didn't know the country. It didn't matter that I didn't know the language, but I knew that I had to become a doctor. I remember what my mother said to me when I was living. She said, as long as you haven't found what you're looking for, don't turn back. Continue. Don't stop. Even if you receive bad news from the family, be strong. Your work could save lives one day. Her words accompanied me over these years and encouraged me in difficult moments. I had a three-month visa to be renewed after registering at the university. And I didn't manage to register for the university because my plane got to Rome late. And so sometimes destiny is not what we imagine. It can change. So I realized that I couldn't register at the university. The plane arrived the day late and so I couldn't take up the scholarship any longer. Despite all these difficulties, I never once thought of going back to my country of origin because my aim was to be able to study. I didn't at all imagine abandoning my project. I had to wait for a year before I could register again, and so I had no money. I was not registered, and so I was alone in a country that I didn't know at all. I found a priest who was a refugee, a Hungarian political refugee. He didn't know me. The concierge made a mistake and didn't call the priest that I wanted. He called the other priest who had more or less the same name, Father Bekesh, who was Hungarian and who had never had contact with Africans, had never had contact with other migrants. And Mr Bekesh helped me a lot because he found me a place. And I remember that I changed accommodation because I had no choice. I had nothing to eat, and it was thanks to Father Bekesh who helped me to be able to find my feet. When I could, I started to attend classes at the university. I taught myself, and I found a way of understanding the language. That was the first problem. I needed to learn the language. I needed to make myself understood. I needed to understand what was also happening in the host country. I really had moments of great solitude, and I remember that it was books, faith and perseverance which really helped me. The absence of a place of meeting other people was a great handicap. There was no strategy for welcoming migrants except for what was being done voluntarily. And even today we don't give enough importance to these assembly points where migrants and countries from the host countries can meet. All that have been created are detention centres, and this is something we need to think about. So migrants are meeting in closed centres rather than in centres that are open to the population to be able to meet with the local population. I chose a private and prestigious university because I wanted to have an impeccable training. I knew I had no money, and I said, well, this is not going to prevent me from having excellent training because this is what I can give myself, and this is what will help me to offer better service to sick people. So I worked in the evening on the weekends and during the holidays in order to pay for my studies. But I'm very happy because I made it to the end. So I finished a completed university in six years. This was the duration of the programme. I don't know how I did it, but I finished it in six years, and I obtained my doctorate in medicine, and now I am a specialist in ophthalmology. Italian law did not allow me to convert my student's permit into a work permit and carry out my profession. The conversion from one category to the next of your permit is not automatic. You have to go back to your country of origin without any guarantee. I didn't want to pass by this. I didn't want to take up this option. I was able therefore to join to carry out my profession, and it was the fall of the Berlin Wall that created a change. This was the beginning of a political instability and conflicts in my current country of origin. I really wanted to go back to my country of origin, but I stayed in Italy in spite of all the difficulties imposed by the law, especially for migrant workers. For two years I couldn't work as a doctor. Even if I got distinctions, I couldn't access public positions or participate in competitions because I wasn't an Italian citizen. I was afraid of taking on Italian nationality, and this is something that all migrants go through. The fear of changing your nationality, it's a fear of losing your identity and your roots, and I think it was over time that I understood that this was where my life was. It was in Italy, and that helped me to take that difficult step. Even when I had Italian nationality, I always was in second place because the first positions were reserved for others, and I couldn't get certain positions in hospitals. It was not a question of competence but of social class. I understood the importance of the culture of the country of origin. I started to work in missionary hospitals in Africa, in university centres, and in the training of social operators there. I had a strong link between my profession and the social sector, and this is who I got involved in politics for several years. I was responsible for the African diaspora in Italy and moved towards a project of the creation of the sixth virtual region of the African Reunion, which has not led to any concrete results. My aim wasn't only to take care of bodies and sick people, but to be involved in a wider perspective. My neighbour was not only migrants and other Congolese, but people. I realised that people were important. I started my political career with the left-wing Democrats at the beginning, at the local level, and then I got to the national parliament. My participation in politics helped me to be able to observe, to listen and share without imposing my vision of things. I considered the fundamental rights of people independent of colour, the colour of their skin, religion and citizenship. I think this is the point of departure for any political project. This has been said even in Strasbourg. The medical profession has helped me. This has allowed me to maintain contact with people and with reality. Being a woman, my profession, my being a migrant and my political role have allowed me to see the reality around me in a dynamic and far-reaching manner. Civil society is ready and available. We need to listen and respect them by making the instruments necessary. I realised that it was important to deal with the phenomenon and migratory flows. This is at the centre of all political discussion relating to labour, education and environment. We must always see this as an added value for preparing and designing integration policies. We don't see the migrant as a source of wealth and richness for the host society. This is the case in Italy with the law on immigration. This fact of being a migrant labour, this has really weakened the status of many persons, especially in this period of crisis. The beginning of integration begins with the active participation of migrants in the politics and social level of their country. I have come to the Parliament and now Minister of Integration. I'm the first black minister in the history of Italy. The citizens of Italy believed in my fight and I was voted for by 93,000 persons who voted for me during the last elections in 2014. This has brought me to the level of Europe, the European level. My commitment to Europe is even broadened. A package of directives over the years have helped to come up with a European policy on asylum. The 28 countries unfortunately do not share the same objectives during my mandate in the government. I personally attended to persons who lost persons in the Lampedusa crisis and I was there, present, during all these operations with my colleagues. We set up the Marinerstrom which has not come up with an adequate response in the European Union and I'd like to stress this because we haven't had an efficient response with regard to migration policy and I think that we cannot continue to give responses which only deal with emergencies, which only deal with the moment but we need to have a long-term policy and to replace Marinerstrom we need to have a project which changes the objectives of FANTEC. This is an agency which controls borders as well as the seas and this is my commitment, I have a strong commitment to the European Parliament to work on migration, to work on asylum, to review the Dublin regulations because this is a problem faced by people who enter into all European countries. We need to work on free movement, the possibility for each person to be able to choose the country where they want to settle and choose as their place of residence. We need to look at asylum policy, the Dublin policy as well as look at borders. We can work on this with humanitarian organizations such as IOM and UNHCR. We need to anticipate these things and have procedures for protecting persons and the Pope reminded us of this because the Mediterranean should not become a cemetery. We need to have a collective awareness from a cultural point of view and so I will, in my saying, by talking about the cultural aspect we need to create collective awareness of hate speech and discrimination. This is something that I started when I was a minister with the Rome Declaration. This is something that you can find that is easily accessible and which condemns hate speech, the creation of a working group which I'm setting up in the European Parliament which needs to work on racism, xenophobia, fighting against racism, xenophobia and to make it understood that diversity, there is richness in diversity. It's not a problem. I continue to be a victim and I'd like to recall this because I continue to be a victim of this hate speech with the Vice-Chair of the President of the Parliament. I am there with him and I haven't had a lot of support and in the courts, before the courts with him, instead of making a pronouncement on this hate speech the court says that it is not in a position to take a position on the Calderole's speech. Everything needs to be brought before the Parliament and the Senate needs to decide whether this is normal political speech or whether it amounts to insults. And I really find this sad for politics because politics must distinguish where the respect for a person begins and what insult means. In spite of that, I said I will not stop. I will continue. I will go on. But politics needs to find its identity, needs to have respect, find respect for people. I am in a protection program. I can't move about freely. I always have bodyguards around me and I wouldn't want somebody else to have the same experience. My commitment with regard to Africa and the European Parliament, I am Vice President of the ACP, President of the Forum for ACP Women, stressing access to education and training and especially building the capacity of women in order to have a leadership class among women who will be able to defend themselves, not as victims but as leaders who can be responsible for themselves and to be leaders. It's not easy to take the lead. I heard the presentation before me. It's not easy to be a symbol and to be the lead and we need to be constantly fighting and I recall the words of Martin Luther King. We shouldn't look at the color of somebody's skin but people's ability. Efforts have been made for me to leave aside my passion and so that I would just not be able to continue. I'm not doing this, I'm doing this for my...