 Welcome to the ITU studio here in Kigali, Rwanda, where we're here for the World's Telecommunication Development Conference, WTDC, and I've got the great pleasure of being joined in the studio today by the right Honourable Xavier Betel, Prime Minister of Luxembourg. Prime Minister, welcome to the studio. Thank you. Now I'd like to start off by asking you, Prime Minister, how has the COVID pandemic changed your view on digital connectivity? We realized, in fact, that imagined COVID pandemic 20 years ago. No education, no e-hels, no home working, so really the economy would have been totally locked. I do not remember, from books, if already there was a curfew, for example, in a lot of European countries before, or even everything close during some days and weeks, so the digital possibilities made it possible to do so many different things. It was also, you know, I'm someone, I love contacts, so I used, I do not say a company, but I use my phone with my camera to be able to exchange, to be able to work. My cabinets, imagine, I was not able to do my cabinets, so I did them also online, so it changed a lot and I was happy that we invested a lot before, so that infrastructure were good, but we still see that it's not everywhere the case. How do you think that ITU can help connect us globally? There are different things. The first thing is the ITU and then is also, for example, this is a conference where we're also with UNICEF and other partners to see how we can avoid that, in fact, what I told you now, what I was able to organize in my country is not able in other parts of the world. We said today the phone, and I remind that the ITU at the beginning, it was the beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, telegraph. Today, when you get these noises, you think your microwave has finished lasagna. And today it is the fact that the phone, I think, I shouldn't say that, but the phone, we use it as less as a phone. We use it to surf, we use to make pictures, to listen to music, to connect today, to play to everything, to look the weather, to look the stocks, everything. So the fact is that we have to avoid that some parts of the world has not the same possibilities. And I'm still not in connected devices. I'm still here just about the fact with your phone that you can do your bank transfers from home. You can check register, you can get educated, you can get a connection with your doctor. So it's difficult to see that still so many billions of people are not connected. Let's talk about your country's contribution. How can Luxembourg help unconnected communities? The fact is we see that nowadays it is complicated, for example, when you have fiber and everything. So we can organize so many things through satellites. And we have a company called the ASSOS still up in the city, which is a really big player in satellites, who is able to offer these possibilities. So I spoke also with some African leaders and we have to be aware that in those countries we should avoid that just the capital is connected and rest of the country is not connected. That's what we did. We should not forget that I'm not the biggest one. So I know that for me it was less complicated to have a bigger coverage than other countries. But if you look at a country like Finland, a long country or Sweden, you know, those long countries, it's more difficult because private sector doesn't want very much to invest if it doesn't bring money. So it is important to have the coverage where we avoid to have a zone blanche, so no coverage zones, but also to avoid a problem with the age. I'm in a situation now I'm able to learn, I know how to use my phone. When I see my nieces 10 years old, they know even more. They explain me TikTok, they explain me so many different things, but my mom, she didn't know how to do payments, so I showed her it works with QR code. She thought she would do pictures, so it was painful, I had to explain the chat to the load, et cetera, et cetera. So we still need to educate and not only young people. My mother's the same actually. I just finally would like to ask you, you've taken the time out of your, I'm sure, incredibly busy schedule to be here in Kigali and Rwanda at the ITUWTDC. I wanted to ask what was the value for you of coming here today? The first thing is to say bye-bye to Mrs Ou. It was 36 years long participating to this. That's the first thing. Then the second thing also to avoid because we will be in elections that we have now a campaign where it will be blocks, will be blocks. Are you in favour of Ukraine against Ukraine? That would be a big mistake. We need to work common and to have a common candidate with the goals we need in the communication. On the other hand, in Rwanda we have a common project and I promised also to Paul Kagame that during my term I would visit him and have elections next year in October. So I don't know how long I had to organise it, but it was in fact the opportunity to have all these different things together, but the ITU is important. It's a UN agency and imagine we would have this coordination of spectrum and all this. It would be a nightmare. I've already discussed just before in meetings with friends about the fact of satellites then in ten years we might have traffic jams of satellites also. So we need to be able to reinvent our telecommunication devices which changes all the time. Thank you very much Prime Minister for sharing these valuable insights with us and hopefully we'll get to catch up again very soon. Thank you very much.