 Now our second speaker is Abdurrahman Niyadi and I will come him, he is the director of policy planning of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the UAE and he will be speaking on the link between economic prosperity and security in the region, how increased economic cooperation can benefit the Middle East, given the leadership role of the UAE. We are all of course interested to listen to you, Abdurrahman please, the floor is yours. Thank you so much and thank you for the opportunity to be in this very important workshop. It's difficult to really discuss the region without shedding light on what's happening in Gaza and I would try through my remarks and I'm not going to take 15 minutes but less to basically try and put the wide lens on what's happening in our region and where we can be constructive. The region has been through crises moving from a crisis to another for a long time and yet another big crisis with this magnitude happening divert our attention from every aspiration that we seek for our region and focus on trying to reach this humanitarian ceasefire and the unhindered axis of humanitarian aid and then looking into the day after as as Dr. Munah has mentioned the day after in which we know that the status quo prior to what happened is not sustainable as well. So I would try to put some diagnosis and speak about why we think prosperity is about is part of the regional security where we speak. That's first of all the way we look at it in the UAE that any regional security architect requires a strong component of economic prosperity. And why do we say that? I believe maybe you heard it in the last session by Dr. Anwar Gargash mentioning the same idea and why do we say that? We say that because we live in a region with one of the youngest demographies. Over 55% of our region right now is less than 30 years old. Unemployment 30% of the unemployment rates in the region is of people who have university degrees. Poverty is hitting one of every four child in the MENA region. And that's basically the statistics that are online. This takes us to the importance of addressing these socio-economic factors if we want to reach a sustainable peace and stability in the region. The socio-economics factors that led to what so-called Arab Spring since 2011 are not addressed yet. The socio-economic factors in the region through the multiple crisis and the ramification of all the crisis of the region has multiplied by COVID, by Ukraine, and now by the Gaza war. And that leaves us with the reality that any pursuit toward peace and stability requires to address the socio-economic factors through trying to achieve economic prosperity. So what do we need to do that? From our perspective there are three main elements to pursue that. Number one is basically that regional countries need to move from the geopolitics of things into the geoeconomics of things and engage with a mindset of creating the economic denominators that we need in our region. That requires obviously in many parts the move from what we try to do prior to what we see right now in Gaza from de-escalation in the region to cooperation in the region. And that move from de-escalation to cooperation requires a fundamental confidence-building measures that many regional security initiatives neglected in the past. These confidence-building measures are very important in that exact goal of moving from a fragile de-escalation to reach a sustainable cooperation in the region. Number two, it's very necessary to address extremism in all its manifestation. And why do we say that? Because we understand that extremism is something to be addressed. We understand that extremism is conducive to terrorism. We understand extremism is violent. But extremism has a disruptive impact on social development. So even if it's not that extremism that passes the threshold of violent, it still has an impact that jeopardizes social development and it's important to be addressed. But how do we address it? Countering the extremist messages is not enough. The way we should address it is in a longer term vision of enhancing education, educational systems, encouraging and building resilience in society by educating our youth in critical thinking and also working on women and youth empowerment. And this is very important. We in the UAE, if I'm going to speak of one of our most important achievements in the last 50 years, women empowerment will be right there as a very clear achievement for our country. And why women empowerment? Because an empowered woman in a society creates a healthy society and prevents extremism. And this is the way we look at it as one of the most effective preventive measures against extremism. Number three is to provide an alternative narrative. There should be not only countering extremist messages but also providing an alternative. And the alternative requires the opportunities for our youth that we spoke about, which requires also the prosperity overall. These alternatives are the coexistence, the tolerance, the freedom of religious practices and building bridges and people-to-people engagement. All these alternatives are very important to achieve the alternative narrative in the region. And number three within that, what we should do, all what I said is something that could happen but that also requires strong institutions. The region requires strong institutions on the national level and also on the regional level. And that strong institutions should be the way forward to enhance the quality of life for our people because that's a sustainable way of doing it. I think I'll stop here. I can take any question later on. I try to be brief to diagnose and see the UAE perspective on how we see the region. Again, it's very difficult at this time to speak about a future optimistic vision, but I try to sum up the wider lens on the region at this place. Thank you. Thank you very much. Always going back to the basics, the basic issues would provide a lot of sense, the education, so prepare the youth to the labor market. This is extremely important. Empower people, empower women that is a preventive measure for, you know, to counter the extremists, provide alternatives. So it's not enough, you know, to say, I have, I'm against this opinion, but then what is the alternative? Tolerance, strong institutions, not only at national level but regional level. There are a lot of questions. Please write down your questions and then you will have the opportunity to ask all those questions.