 We would like to thank the Action Thematic Program for taking this initiative to hold this first-ever meeting for the region. We hope that at the end of these three days we will be able to come out of the meeting with not only recommendations that hopefully the European Union ACP Migration Action will be able to take forward into the future but also be able to sort of reflect on the activities that have been carried out so far for the last three or four years since 2015 and how we can better coordinate because of the number of stakeholders or regional organizations that are also working in this particular space on Visa. Well that's one of the things that I'm quite excited about is the level of stakeholders sitting together in one room and it provides an opportunity as well to better coordinate the work that we do in the region.