 So, excellencies, distinguished colleagues, ladies and gentlemen, good morning. Welcome you to this broadband commission for sustainable development spring session in Hong Kong. It is a great pleasure to be with you here in Hong Kong, China, for this spring meeting of the broadband commission. Just some of you already come to Hong Kong many times, more than I do, but it's the first time for me to be in Hong Kong in March, in the past always in winter, in December. So I found something new to me, so I hope you will enjoy your visit to Hong Kong at this moment. So it's wonderful to see so many familiar friends and physicists around the table. Indeed, the last time I saw many of you was at the World Economic Forum's annual meeting in Davos, when we hosted a special session attended by a total of five heads of UN agencies and many of our inter-chair CEO commissioners. There's also five head of UN agencies, of course, including Irina Bukova, our co-vice chair, and also Ellen Clark, UNDP, and Ponziola, the UN woman, and two mayor colleagues, Hosein from the director general of UPU and Mr. Lee Yong, the director general of UNIDO. I was very pleased my colleagues came to join us at Davos meeting. There we had an excellent debate about furthering the investment case. So I'm delighted many of you have made the effort to come here to Hong Kong, China. I would like to express my warm thanks to our chairs, His Excellency President Paul Kagami of Rwanda, and Mr. Carlos Slim, represented by here by Mr. Carlos Jack, my dear friend, and my co-vice chair Irina Bukova. I'm deeply impressed by the commitment and dedication shown to the commission by the co-chairs and my co-vice chair. Let me also express my sincere appreciation to our hosts, my dear colleague, Madam Senyafang, and her team from Huawei, who have been fantastic in welcoming and supporting us all. And I know like all of you, I'm looking forward very much to our tour of Huawei tomorrow in Shenzhen. The spring's meeting is always a very productive meeting for the commission, a meeting in which we can share views and speak frankly and openly and encourage you all to do that at this meeting. Distinguished colleagues, this commission remains committed to our central conviction that broadband is critical if we are to achieve the sustainable development goals. And some of you also mentioned that maybe also in particular, move via broadband. I'm delighted to tell you that ITU is carrying this message as far and wide as possible. I personally am engaged in significant outreach with many industry executives and other UN agencies. Of course, I also convey this message to my visit member states when I talk to the head of states and head of governments over the last two years. Including my recent visit to FAO, and we are planning to work with UNIDU on the important of small and medium-sized enterprises, and I would encourage you, our commissioners, to reach out to other stakeholders as well. Or too often, it is assumed that the importance of ICTs for development must be widely understood, but in fact, this is often not the case. ICTs are seen as a secondary sector, a sector where the primary sector will solve everything, but in fact, that is often not the case. ICTs underpin vital achievements and modern services in many other sectors, and governments and industry have to work together to create the enabling environment so badly needed in many countries to facilitate the growth of broadband for sustainable development. In this respect, IT is in fact currently working on preparing a report, insights into ICTs for achieving the SDGs, presenting perspectives from many heads of UN agencies, and a warm thank you to Irina in this regard for contributing your personal insights into broadband and education. During my recent conversation with the new Secretary-General of the United Nations, I also advised him that we have this report, and he is very pleased to get information that the report could help the UN to further facilitate the ICTs' assistance to the other SDGs. The reports find that today, more than ever before, broadband and ICTs offer large-scale opportunities to transform economies, empower individuals, and contribute to development goals. So ICTs offer a lot of promise with many potential opportunities, but there are still significant and substantial digital gaps that need to be bridged, some 3.9 billion people without internet access and around 5 billion people without mobile broadband. And I know Dennis has a lot of ideas about that, and the importance of providing everyone with 3G. I recently worked with Israel and Palestine to try to provide 3G service in the Palestine area, and I was very pleased last week to get some progress report. And we heard a lot in the working group on gender history about how to bridge the digital gender divide, and there are issues in other sectors as well. And we need to be vigilant about putting safeguards in place to protect consumers, given the extraordinary abilities of new technologies. For example, how we are health and education sectors adapt to the digital transition. Most people would agree with healthcare workers having access to confidential health files in the name of diagnosing and treating diseases. But what would happen if that information was leaked or shared with either employees or health insurance providers? In this regard, I was very pleased to see that we had a truly excellent report by the working group on digital health released at the Mobile World Congress, which addressed a lot of issues that made it discussion. I think that must might give us more information. Our commission continues to go from strength to strength everywhere I go. People ask me about the work of the broadband commission. So we are clearly building momentum. And in this respect, I'm pleased to announce new commissioners who will join us at our next meeting. The commissioner of the European Commission, the vice chairman of the European Commission to replace Mr. Odinger, the commissioner who joined us in the past. And Mr. Pei, R.G. Pei, the chair of FCC. And I had a phone call with him recently several times, and he's pleased to join us. And from the interest I see in the commission, I'm convinced we are really building something we can be proud of. Ladies and gentlemen, this is a working meeting, and we are expecting to learn from you with all your insights and some more debates. In particular, as the commission's targets are not six years old, we would like to ask you for your inputs to modernizing and updating them. Noting that over the past five years, they have helped highlight the commission's work and allowed us to measure the progress that has been made. And when we talked with our partners, and I talked with our co-chairs, they all expected new and updated ideas of targets. Our flagship report, the State of broadband provides a valuable snapshot of the current status of the broadband industry. I invite you all to get involved now and contributed to this annual exercise. And we are also looking forward to the high-level political forum, HAPF, which will take place in New York from 10th to 19th of July this year, on the same eradicating poverty and promoting prosperity in a changing world. The HAPF will examine goals one, two, three, five, nine, 14, and 17. And the targets for this, and perhaps the commission should consider hosting some kind of a side event for the HAPF to really bring home the importance of broadband among the many government ministers and policymakers in attendance. That is an idea I just put out there for your consideration. And in fact, this morning, prior to this meeting, with co-chairs and my colleague, a co-vice chair, we exchanged views on this, and we'd like to bring your ideas to that session. And myself and Irina, we are good. So we can see what you think and you would suggest. Thank you very much. And let me conclude by wishing you all a very productive and free-for-meeting. And now I would like to also invite my colleague Irina to have her remarks. Thank you.