 Thanks for doing very encouraging words. Your Excellency is a representative of the African Yemen who is supposed to be here making remarks. I don't know whether they have a right and if they have not a right, I would argue that we will proceed with the program and it's my very humble pleasure to invite and your Excellency is actually we are also in our midst. I've been to Mamakaita who is there also. I think it's also good to appreciate that presence here. We have a Professor Sarge who is here just kind of present also because of the massive instrument into the process. And therefore now it's my humble pleasure your Excellency to invite the facilitator to make remarks. I do remember it's been investing a lot of time to mobilize this and that your Excellency is most welcome. Your Excellency Avaristi Daishimye, President of the Republic of Burundi and Chairperson of the Staff and Community. Your Excellency William Sanway Ruto, President of the Republic of Kenya. Your Excellency heads of state and government, distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen. We gather here today for the start of the Nairobi Three Consultations which are a follow-up to the inaugural Inter-Kongolees Peace Consultations, referred to as Nairobi One, that was held in April of this year and the second Inter-Kongolees Peace Consultations in Nairobi Two, that involved a scoping and mapping exercise that took us through Itori, North Kivu and South Kivu provinces in May of this year. Indeed, ladies and gentlemen, as you will recall, during the 22nd Ordinary Summit of the EAC that was held in Arusha, I had the opportunity to brief the Staff and Community Leadership on the Outcomes of Nairobi One and Nairobi Two and it was on this basis that the community decided to take charge of the process and provide the requisite political guidance. Since then, I was designated as a facilitator of the process and I've had the opportunity during that period to undertake a number of working visits, first to Budimura, where I briefed our chair, President Aishimiye, and received his views on how we can take this process forward. We then moved to Kinshasa where we had the opportunity to brief His Excellency Felix Tashikedi and also listen to his views on the state of play, on the direction that he would like the process to take. We also thereafter went to Luwanda where we met with His Excellency President Jokam Nurenko in an effort to build synergies between the Nairobi process and the Luwanda process. And I've also had the opportunity to visit Goma where I went to experience first-hand the actual situation from East and EIC and indeed to meet the newly deployed EAC regional force. So Your Excellency's ladies and gentlemen, the efforts that we have deployed in the framework of the Nairobi process have indeed yielded positive results and as we meet here today I would like to indicate that there are a number of armed groups that undertook to seize hostilities in advance of Nairobi 1 and which have kept their part of the bargain to date and I would like to commend these groups for vesting their faith on the process that we are undertaking and on our part we commit to do everything possible to ensure the success of this initiative. Indeed having been to Goma and listened to stories of the suffering that people have gone through for so long, I am more convinced that no effort should be spared in bringing peace and stability to the eastern side of the Democratic Republic of Congo. In the instance we commenced the Nairobi process, there has been relative calm in the territories controlled by armed groups that are part of this process and as a result of this humanitarian actors have been able to have some access into these territories to provide much-needed humanitarian assistance to the communities they are in. Ladies and gentlemen, the East African Community Regional Force was deployed to offer support to the armed forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo and I am happy to note that the modalities that we put in place to ensure that this objective is effectively realized. Indeed at this stage I would like to thank Burundi and Kenya for deploying their troops as part of the EAC Regional Force and further I would like to urge the other member states to deploy as early as committed for it is imperative that we realize full deployment of all elements of the East African Force as per the decision of the three conclaves of the East African head of state and the subsequent 22nd order resummit of the EAC. Your Excellency, ladies and gentlemen, as the facilitator, together with yourselves, we have convened this Nairobi 3 to achieve the following objectives, to identify firstly the political process and institutional reforms necessary to create an environment conducive for the disarmament of armed groups at regional, national and provincial level. Secondly, to consolidate support and active participation of communities in the disarmament immobilization, reintegration and community stabilization program and address the political and institutional requirements for reintegration of armed groups into the communities. To also deepen the consultation of communities and armed groups from the concerned areas for the greater inclusivity and greater ownership of the process including for the first time with representatives from Mariana and Tananika and the identification of root causes of conflicts in the five provinces and finally to evaluate the concrete modalities for the restoration of state authority in each province necessary to accompany the PDDRCs amongst other issues. So ladies and gentlemen, the participation of all the invited groups at this consultative forum gives me much hope that all the objectives will be realized and we believe that at the end of this process we will be able to see increased coordination and coherence of the Nairobi process with the PDDRCs, the armed groups that are yet to seize hostilities to honor their commitments, to seize armed activities and to grant an energy monetary access and the full deployment and operationalization of the East African regional force. So as I conclude, ladies and gentlemen, I want to urge all participants to this process including those who are not yet here on the table with us to give their support to this process that is vital towards the restoration of peace and stability in the Eastern DRC and I look forward to opportunities that will enable the region to continue working closely to enhance and strengthen the bonds of purposeful friendship and strategic cooperation for the mutual benefit of all the citizens of East Africa. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.