 Welcome to WRC 19, the World Radio Communication Conference in Shamash Sheikh in Egypt, where I'm very pleased to be joined in the studio today by Eric Alex, who is the chair of the World Meteorological Organization's Steering Group on Radio Frequency Coordination. Eric, welcome to the studio. Thank you. I'd like to start off by talking to you a little bit about WMOS Presence here at WRC 19. What are some of the topics that are most of interest to you? Many topics. We have very interesting many topics. The main one, I can say, is Agenda 10113, which related to IMD, 5G technology in the system, to try to find new allocation for this mobile system. First one, the second one, is more of a satellite issue and to try to define a certain limit in order to ensure the long-term usage of a satellite, a meteorological satellite system. So what's the connection between 5G and meteorology? Directly not. We can't see. However, the future band proposed to be 5G technology are very near our band we use for passive observation per satellite. And the main issue is there. This technology uses band, as I said, adjacent to this meteorological observation satellite. And what we call the out-of-band of this emission can fail in our band, passive band, and create some problem. So everybody here is struggling to get their piece of the spectrum, is that right? Yeah, you know, the spectrum is more and more dense. So everyone wants to try to find some way in order to develop and fully understand that, develop new systems, new technology. It's the demand. And what are the major things that help you in terms of weather forecasting? We have many systems. We have satellite, of course. It's, I can say, the new system that provides a lot of data, collection data. But we have also radars. We have radiosomes, wind-provider radars, many things like that. So it's a combination of all these systems that permit her to have weather forecasting for short-term, middle-term, and long-term, and in particular for the climate, monitoring climate. I was going to say, what about climate change itself? How is that affecting you? In fact, the climate change is what's the main important band we use. It's the observation, passive observation per satellite for the climate change. So we use the natural radiation of the earth and the atmosphere in order to see how the change is during the decades. And it's the main one, the main problem here. Because we made, since 40, 50 years, some satellite data collection. And now, if we change the environment of this natural atmosphere and earth's radiation, we will not be able to use any more what we collected since long years. So it's why it's important for us, for the climate. And in terms of this conference itself, this is not the first time that you've attended this conference. I think you've been here about, is this your sixth conference? Yeah, more than 20 years. So have you seen many changes to this? And do you think that it should evolve? Yeah, in fact, the pressure since, I can say, some years, 10 years, the pressure on the spectrum usage are more and more. So it's why we are faced to protect more and more our spectrum. However, it's always the same approach. We're doing all the preparation. There are some discussion, hard discussion. And when we arrive at WRC, at the end, we always, or we try to go to a compromise. I think people, we are, since the beginning, since 2015, when this agenda item was approved, we never oppose the use or to try to find new allocation for mobile, of course. But with the only constraints is to protect our observation system. So we heard since the beginning of this conference some proposal, very interesting proposal, which proposed to protect our band in a good manner. So we encourage all administration to support this compromise in order to everyone to be happy at the end. And in terms of the work of ITU, how important and relevant is the work of ITU to the WMO? It's very important. The aim of WMO is to cooperate between all the National Meteorological Agency. All Meteorological National Agency has not the possibility to provide people to follow in detail all these discussions. And we know where the discussions are technically high-technology discussions. So we need to follow all along the study period, all the discussions we have in different study groups in ITU. And for that, WMO organized, and it's the aim of the group I'm sharing, organized this every year or two times per year meeting with all this National Agency in order to try to find a way and to have common position in order for each of these agencies to go to their administration and explain what is the issue and proposed solution, of course. From where you said, what will be the best outcomes from this particular conference? I think the best one will be to find a real compromise that protects our interests, in particular regarding the 5G, because as I said, we made a lot of investment with satellites since decades. It will continue because you know a satellite, it's not only for six months or one years, it's 20, 30 years times. So it's very important investment. So it's the main issue. But we are also interested and in particular we will have to define a new agenda item for the next conference in 2023. I don't know if we'll be always there, but I hope. And of course it's very interesting to see what will be discussed in the next four years. Well, thank you very much for joining us here in the studio. Hopefully we'll catch up with you again soon, maybe in a little bit less than four years time. But hey, Galax, merci beaucoup. Thank you, merci. Thank you.