 Thank you, Mr. President, Excellencies, Honorable Ministers, Ladies and Gentlemen. I bring you warm greetings from the people of Anwatu and allow me to take this occasion to congratulate and applaud the government and the generous people of Romania for being a great host. I take this occasion to congratulate the appointment, as we know yesterday, of the Cabinet Director General and Deputy Secretary-General. Congratulations. Connect and Unite as a theme for this conference is very fitting in this time as the world rebuilds from the COVID-19 period, a period of disruption, adaptation, innovation, a period that the world can recognize the powerful role that ICT plays, and this has proven that ICTs are essential in our daily lives. It was a period that we have considered, we have demonstrated, the power values and capabilities of a connected society and that we can achieve a lot. As you know, as we all know, this very potentially conference will look into the next four years to establish the future direction of the ITU in ways that contributes to the prosperity of human humanity. I believe we all share the views on current common challenges and policy experiences, therefore strengthening mutual understanding and joint efforts to mitigate these experiences. Excellencies, these things delegate, ladies and gentlemen. Since the 20th Potential in 2018, Banuatu has made strides in the ICT sector development. Of course, many will still have fond memories of Port Vila and the ITU CSR 2019. Thank you, ITU family, for giving us the opportunity to be the host of the CSR 2019. Banuatu recognizes that ICTs through our national sustainable development plan 2030 and the economic pillar with policy objectives to increase use of and access to ICTs, including online government services. One of the core smart indicators for this policy objective is the percentage of population having access to meaningful and appropriate broadband connectivity. On average, over the four years, despite the challenges of the devastating natural events and COVID-19, Banuatu has seen a positive growth in mobile subscription, mobile data subscription, and mobile data download resulting in positive growth in mobile data revenue and total market revenue. With the well-designed and resilient infrastructure, with robust regulatory frameworks that create for an enabling environment that has seen innovative data bundles offered by the service providers with improved speed and value in terms of data allowances. We are currently in the process of negotiating a domestic subsea cable that will connect more than 10 economically active islands of Banuatu. The subsea cable will improve the distribution of the international capacity from the only international cable for rural communities, and we believe that these will enable us in delivering meaningful and affordable broadband connectivity. Thank you to the ITU through our office in Bangkok with the development of our digital government master plan and strategy. In the area of cybersecurity, we delivered on a policy objective in terms of establishing child online protection policy, Banuatu's national computer emergency response team, and in 2021 the Cyber Crime Act was passed by parliament. We are excited to be a part of the partner to connect during WTDC in Cali this year, and we are committed to our pledges. Mr Chairman, today we call on ITU members to support, we call for a process to establish a sub-principal office for the Pacific. Mr Chairman, it is incumbent upon all of us to increase and expand support to countries such as Banuatu and small Pacific Island states, seats, to increase their investment on and infrastructure, our standards, our efficiency, our human resources, as well as to continue to voice and act provision of financial and technical assistance to Banuatu and other small island-owned states. We recognize current friends and development partners in this regard, and we call to you to increase your level of support, to establish and support a special trust fund for seats within the ITU for utilization by seats. Thank you Thomas. Merci beaucoup. Now we hand back.