 Ladies and gentlemen, Dr. Hamlet Tore, thank you very much, Mr. President, Mahindra Pajang Paksa, President of Republic of Sri Lanka, Excellencies, the Senates of our Ministers, and other Parliaments, the Senators, ladies and gentlemen of the Republic of Sri Lanka, Excellencies, gentlemen and other Commission, ladies and gentlemen. It is a tremendous pleasure for me and an honor to be here today with you this morning for the opening ceremony of the 2012 Global Symposium of Regulators, and Global Regulators and Industry down to Greek. This is my second visit here in this beautiful country. Mr. President, I was here in 2009, just a few months before the peace. Mr. President, coming back here three years later, I can see the peace design in this beautiful country. A country that I felt in love with, just like our fellow countrymen and leaders are to see clear. When I first came here, I realized, as a satellite engineer, why are to see clear, felt in love with this country, and chose this country as its not only its living place, but as a place for its eternal life. I would like to congratulate Mr. President and the government and the leadership of this country for the achievement made in this country in such a short time. You can see that the population is now indeed reaping the benefits of the peace and governments in foster policy on emergency and development and happiness for its people. Mr. President, the Global Symposium Regulators has historically been a fruitful and positive occasion bringing together the key stakeholders involving an ICD policy making and regulation. And I am sure that this year's edition will continue this time. I am happy that over time it has evolved to bring industry leaders into a constructive dialogue with the regulators, and a salute to contribution of private sector in this year's great, the Global Regulators industry dialogue. This year, on the eve of the ESR, in addition to the Regulator Association's meeting, we have held for the first time ever a meeting of the chief regulatory officers of the ITUD sector members. And I am very happy to have learned that their contribution to the agenda of all activities in the Regulator domain has been most valuable. With this experience, we have been able to make the contributions of the lawmakers, the players and the referees in a simple environment. The theme of this year's ESR, why they create a network society seems particularly appropriate to me as I expect the discussions here in Sri Lanka this week to cover some of the same grounds that will be covered at the conference on International Telecommunications Regulations week 12. Week 12 will be taking place in Dubai in early December to look at ways of revising the International Telecommunications Regulations, the ITRs. That of course is not the purpose of the ESR. We do not want to be diverted here by discussions of what should or should not go into the device, the ITRs. There will be plenty of time for that in both forms over the next two months, and indeed via the weekly public consultation on the ITU Act, which I am inviting all to contribute to. Week 12 has already attracted an enormous amount of interest and major orders, but of course not always for the right reasons. So I would like to take this opportunity to summarize the key issues and to dispel some of the persistent needs surrounding the conference. Unreadable to some of the sensational schemes we've heard lately, Week 12 is definitely not about taking control of the intent or respecting people's free conversation and freedom of speech. The same before it would not want Week 12 to set these matters at once bringing it again and again. My call to them again is let's go back to the traditional ITU based on consensus, cooperation, and innovation. There are other UN agencies dealing with freedom of speech, practice, and freedom of expression. Those organizations are doing their job very well. We shall let them continue to do so and I assume we'll get back to the real issues which are about accelerating the real deployment of broadband to a certain more and more people are connected and given a voice online and that the transformative power of broadband is accessible to all the world's people. Here in Sri Lanka I've seen the massive change of connectivity of the people here. They have succeeded in meeting the challenges of the mobile innovation. Our next challenge is broadband innovation and through Week 12 we want to make sure that we meet that goal. Every citizen of this planet has the right to access information, has the right to use information, has the right to create information. And last but not least, every citizen of this planet has the right to share information. We are today in the information society. Our ultimate goal is a knowledge society that we're trying to build together. So, the goal of the United Nations and the International Communication Union is about putting ICTs in the hands of the world's people. It's about promoting affordable and equitable access to all, including people with disabilities, the continued development of broadband, including an increased focus on energy efficiency, and combating climate change, continuing investment in network services and applications, and perhaps most importantly, in this very fast-moving world, continue to promote a harmonious and conducive international environment that drives innovation. And all this are what Week 12 will be about. Releasing the course of international mobile roaming, how to prevent fraud, misuse, and misuse of telephone numbering systems, and the empowering of consumers. Dear participants, there is a busy and exciting schedule of events with topical and important issues on the agenda, and I'm pleased to be able to participate through these three days together, reaching all of the regulatory authorities in the world. It's excellent to see again the last time I came here, 2009, just before the end of the war, I'm pleased to be here in a unified country that is putting the economy for its people first. And this year, the SDSR is taking place here in recognition of the very sound regulatory environment that has been put in place in this country. Allow competition, growth, and innovation. You have a lot of regional young people who have gained their contribution in this high-stability internal innovation. This is an opportunity for me to thank again our hosts, the TRC, for wonderful facilities, and the top-class hospitality and support they have provided to ensure that this event is once again a new success. I was very much touched by the opening of the right here, the traditional welcome of this beautiful country. This overall environment that we are in today will be conducive to motivate more traditional brains and more fruitful interaction. This will enable us to come to real good and positive conclusions. The positive spirit that all of you are bringing together, combined with the hospitality of this beautiful country, will enable us to make sure that through information and communication technology this world again is in better place. I wish you a very successful symposium here in Colorado. Thank you very much.