 It is evident that there are at least four important respects that Africa will hold the balance of world development in the next two decades. The first is in world population, demography. The second is environment and climate change. The third is in production, especially agriculture, manufacturing and technology. And the fourth is in social exclusion under which rubric comes poverty and human capital development and its implications for global security. Africa's failure or success on these issues will profoundly impact the fortunes of mankind. The challenges of human development in Africa are clearly enormous, but so are the opportunities to significantly move the needle to vastly improve standards of existence for our people. And if we keep our focus, especially on good governance, the next two decades may truly be the African decades. Thank you.