 We're here at Wicket 2012 in Dubai and I'm very pleased to be joined by Tim Unwin who is Secretary-General of the Commonwealth Telecommunications Organization. Tim, thank you very much for being with us today. Pleasure to be here. I'd like to start off by asking you about your your impressions of Wicket. I know you've just just arrived But we've been going for a couple of days now. What are your impressions? What are your your hopes that we're going to see here at Wickets? Well, I think I've been impressed immediately despite all the Interesting press coverage in advance that there seems to be a real willingness of people to compromise and reach agreements on this And I think that Reflects a lot of hard work done by ITU officials over the last couple of weeks in actually getting us to that and in terms of hopes You know, we have to come away from here with some positive outcomes And I've heard several really interesting things already even though as you say I've only been here a day So I'm much more hopeful that I was before I came What do you see as a Commonwealth members role in supporting some of the issues that are being raised here at Wicket 2012? I think the Commonwealth has got two particularly important Positive assets. One is it's 54 countries across all the different continents of the world So although there are lots of regional groupings who are lobbying and trying to reflect their own interests Actually the Commonwealth can help pull all of that together and certainly talking with ITU officials They've really welcomed that that we're able to be a quite a large subset reflecting many different dimensions I think the second part of that and it's related is of course that we have both some of the richest countries in the world And some of the poorest and and so we really do reflect not only geographical variation But also that the issues that are really being teased out between the European countries North America or Australia and some of the poorest countries of Africa Caribbean Pacific and Asia and I think you know Talking in in a common language We will have a common legal tradition in common law, which I think is really important And that's something that that could be a real benefit to the wider international community And what do you think there will be some of the conclusions reach here at Wicket 12? Yeah, I very difficult to say it's about I'm the most important one as I've said earlier that we do reach a New set of agreements, but I've heard some very positive things about for example multi-stakeholder partnerships And and I think then it's thing I've worked a lot on in the past and Everyone uses slightly different terminology and means slightly different things by it And and I would hope that we can actually reach some kind of clear agreements because they don't always work everywhere They're often seen as a panacea They're actually really difficult to do well and and something else that don't you know is is dear to my heart is Disability agenda, and it's really good to see that and featuring prominently so you know already there are some I think very positive outcomes But a lot of hard work is going to be needed over the next 10 days or so to get us to where we need to be Timon, well, thank you very much indeed being with us today. My pleasure. Thank you