 We were given a nice little gift to celebrate the Sister City Agreement signed 40 years ago inside the writing from Madrid to New York City on their 40th anniversary of the Sister City Agreement signed by Mayor Koch 40 years ago. We thank you for this gift, Mayor Jose and his team are here. And you know it's interesting that there is some commonality between the cities. He's dealing with an affordable housing crisis, he's dealing with transportation crisis, he's dealing with a crime crisis with gangs, he's dealing with a very friendly press. But it was really an enjoyable opportunity to sit down and talk as we struggled with these challenging times in both our cities. Madrid is a city of over 3 million people, millions of people use their streets every day. Trying to navigate the conversation around electric vehicles, making it affordable for the city, dealing with their metro. So we see the common issues that we are facing and one of the things we walked away with is how do we join together as mayors to find real solutions to the problems that we're dealing with. And that's something that our Commissioner, Commissioner Ed Murmestein is going to do in this administration. We're going to reach across the pond, as we like to say, and start building these international relationships. Same problems, we can find similar solutions to them. And so, Amaya, I'm happy that you're here. And this is your first trip to New York, I hope it's not your last. So I look forward to coming to Madrid and seeing your beautiful city again. It's been about 15 years since I've been there and I look forward to coming again. Please say a few words. Thank you, my dear friend Mayor, and thanks to your lovely team. We feel really, really, really comfortable here in New York and you put us very easy to stay here. And until the next Saturday, then we will back to Madrid. 40 years ago, Madrid and New York City became Sister Cities, an agreement with the sign of an agreement with the major scotch and Tierno Galvan, where we feel extremely proud to have the city by our side. Coming along the way to become the understanding city that we are right now in many ways, thanks to the example of New York City. In this 40 years, Madrid has been transformed from a small capital city in southern Europe to one of the most important cities in the world. We are the European city of the opportunities. We are the European city of the freedom. We are the European city of the happiness. Right now, our history is, and we pay a tribute to New York and our people in New York, especially to the public services of New York. Well, history says there's a common path, not only in our greatness, but also in our darkest moments. This city suffered 1911, 21 years ago, and we suffered 311 18 years ago. The example of New York's New Yorkers, Mayor, has made the people of Madrid to overcome the situation and become stronger than ever. I would really like to thank Mayor Adam for his kindness and friendship and for his commitment to the friendship between our cities and people have and surely will have in the future. We serve some unknown goals, such as security, immigration, integration, environmental policies, transform digital transformation, affordable housing. Our local police departments have been working closely and will definitely keep doing so in the future. I take this opportunity, Mayor, to extend an invitation to come to Madrid, please. To visit us in Madrid, where he will definitely, as you will feel at home in the capital city of Spain, one of the greatest nations in the world. Thanks a lot, Mayor Adams. Thanks a lot to your team because we feel at home here in New York, but we respect and we hope to see you soon in Madrid. Thanks a lot. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. I know you have a similar press from Spain, so we could open up to a few more topics. Mr. Mayor, I would like to ask a question to the mayor of Madrid. In Spain, Mr. Mayor, the mayor of Adams has said that one of the issues that you have discussed has been about housing and the issue of the Latin bands that are being a constant news in Madrid. Who have you spoken to and what has been the council of the mayor of Adams, as I say members of the police in New York, to face these challenges? If you don't mind, I speak in Spanish. Thanks a lot. I take this intervention in Spanish to deeply thank the mayor of Adams, as well as his team, for the warm welcome that we have had in New York, for the City Council of Madrid, for all the media of the City Council of New York, so that we can stretch our relations in this milestone of the 40th anniversary of the sisterhood between both cities. And I think that if there is a city in the world where the other cities can learn their numbers and more questions, it is precisely New York and therefore for us it is a privilege to be able to be here and to be able to have maintained this meeting with the mayor of New York. Both are the questions that have been pointed out, indeed, among many, but that have special importance. And in the first place, the security issues. Everyone knows in Madrid that we are worried about the issue of the youth bands. And here in New York, of course, the police department, with which we have also had a meeting. We have been able to talk about these security issues. We have been given a series of advice on how they focus on these issues, on which are the security measures that they have implemented in the city, from a police department that consists of more than 38,000 police agents and who have a great experience, but in which we have also been recommended that we do prevention work, fundamentally in the school area in the city of Madrid, through the tutors of our municipal police, which is the best way to prevent these events to occur. And in second place, regarding a issue that also occupies and worries all the big cities, it is no longer the issue of housing for the people who are in a situation of vulnerability, but the issue of housing for those people who have a job, who have a salary, do not have economic capacity to be able to stay and live in the city of Madrid. And we have been talking about those initiatives that we have put in Madrid about the arrangement of promoters on the ground for the construction of housing in the archival regime at a price that has been specifically directed to minors of 35 years or also the unlocking of certain urban operations in the city of Madrid. I believe we learn from each other in three areas. One is education. We're not limited now by allowing our students to communicate directly with students in Madrid. A classroom in learning should not be isolated or limited to just a classroom. We want to utilize zooms to have students in Madrid speak to students here on every level of education from elementary to middle school to high school so they can see how they have similar desires and outcomes and how they can work together on real projects to do instructional based learning together. Second is economics. We want to see how we could exchange businesses here. Something that I charge with my commissioner of international affairs is to see what business opportunities do we have globally in general but specifically in those areas where we have sister city agreements and we want to look at how we can bring delegations of businessmen and women here and there. And last culture. Culture is one of the best ways you could learn and respect different countries. Our globe is a smaller place and our goal is to show the culture here of New York as diverse as it is and exchange the culture of Madrid. And I believe those three areas are clear areas that we can bring our cities closer together. Thank you Mayor. These 40 years I think have been 40 years that have served to stretch the relationships between New York and Madrid. There have been collaborations from a security point of view between both police throughout all these years but also from a cultural point of view with various expositions that have been in New York and that have been in Madrid and at the same time I believe that in the future and I have already indicated the mayor of us in the first place because of strengthening the ties in the business economy. New York is one of the biggest financial capital in the world. Madrid is one of the biggest financial capital in Europe and therefore we have a series of ties that we must still continue to deepen so that the economic activity that comes from New York and from the United States also focuses towards Spain and specifically towards the city of Madrid and therefore from the point of view of the businessmen there is a more close contact. In that sense also this night that there will be a flamenco show tomorrow when the real theater comes there will be contacts between businessmen I am going to have a meal with businessmen also throughout these days to explain the advantages of the city of Madrid and to invest because then everything that comes from New York in economic terms will be beneficial for the city of Madrid and the capacity that we will have to attract. Then we want to enhance the tourist ties. For us the North American market from the point of view of tourism is absolutely essential at a time when the market in China and Japan has it very complicated yet due to the consequences of the pandemic however the American market and especially New York receives 60 million tourists a year. Madrid received 11 million. For us it is very important that they can share experiences of those tourists or that the American tourists have as their preferred destination in Europe, precisely the city of Madrid and then coincided fully with the mayor when he said that culture is the shortest way for the people to know and to maintain peace and the most important coexistence than ever in the times that we live in and therefore that in fact we are able to guarantee those cultural exchanges will be very important but I would also stay with a phrase that has been said the mayor who allows to narrow the relations between the great cities we have the same problems we have to share similar solutions if the great cities that we are the great protagonists of the 21st century that we are going to accumulate more and more population that we are going to reach 75% of the world population in just a few years we are directly responsible for guaranteeing the quality of life of all our fellow citizens and if we have the same problems, New York and Madrid have to share similar solutions and I am sure that we will do it in the future. I want to give a little bit of a lot of respect to the Spanish speakers like Gladys who has been with me all these years they teach me the phrases over and over again but I don't want to do the de Blasio version that butches the Spanish language. I want to give it the respect that it deserves and I am going to pop out one day and give you all of the practice that I had and this way I can give it the justice that it deserves. I'm really impressed when the conversation around affordability and living in Spain is a group of population that we often ignore. He's doing everything possible for low income earners. And those who are high income earners are able to afford, the high income earners are able to afford to live in Madrid. But it is the middle income earners, we often forget them. We forget about those who don't receive the same level of subsidies as we see here. Oftentimes they slip through the cracks of their struggling and he clearly acknowledges that we need to be there for those middle income earners as well. And that's something that I would like to continue to focus on. We're doing on topic with the mayor so you will not embarrass me in front of the mayor. We're doing on topic with the mayor so you will not embarrass me in front of the mayor. Any other on topics? Okay, Mayor, thank you. Mayor, thank you. Good to see you. And now I offer to the Mayor-Alms Madrid as the right place to learn Spanish.