 Welcome to ITU Telecom World 2019 here in Budapest, Hungary. We're very pleased to be joined in the studio today. I'm Mr Peter Ciata, who is the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade for Hungary. Minister, welcome to the studio. Thank you very much for your invitation. Now, this is the second time around that ITU Telecom World has been in the beautiful city of Budapest in Hungary, and obviously we did something right the first time round. I just wanted to ask you a little bit about your impressions of ITU Telecom World and how important is it to Hungary to host international events such as this? Look, we have a long-standing cooperation already with ITU and that has a good reason. The Hungarian economy is at the edge of changing dimension, and telecommunication, digitalization, IoT, I4.0 all play a very important role in this regard. And if you want to be competitive in the future, you definitely have to be a frontrunner in these issues, especially if you put into consideration a case of a country, which is by size and population small. So we have to take advantage of the creativity and the skillfulness and the diligence of the Hungarian people. So telecommunication is an area for us where we have a competitive advantage currently when it comes to the European and global comparison, and we would like to build on it. And the cooperation with ITU, hosting ITU Telecom World Exhibitions and Conferences are very useful from this perspective because we can showcase our development here. Absolutely. I think everybody who has attended here has been extremely impressed by the country, the city, and the organization definitely. I wanted to ask you how vital is regional and international collaboration in driving digital transformation? I mean, you've touched upon it just there, but maybe it could expand. Of course. You know, look here in central Europe, we have a very strong political alliance between four countries, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Hungary. And that helps a lot when it comes to economic development of these countries. Currently, we serve as a growth engine for Europe, putting into consideration the growth rates. Three of the top five growth rates of EU now come from the central European countries. And if we would like to keep this advantage of ours, and if we would like to maintain our position, then we definitely have to be frontrunners when it comes to digitalization. And, you know, these are countries which have made many structural reforms in the last years, which then ended up in an investment climate, which is pretty beneficial for higher in value and R&D driven economies like telecommunication and ICT. So that's why we work together on development projects. We continuously lower the tax rates in order to make our countries more and more attractive. And it comes to investors coming from this area. Now the theme of this year's event is innovating together connectivity that matters. I wanted to ask you, what for you is meaningful connectivity? Look, the basis for our national economy and the backbone of it is automotive industry. And we know that automotive industry is entering now a totally new age, when the autonomously driven cars will more or less likely play the most important role. And if you want to be a frontrunner in developments and research regarding autonomously driven cars, then you definitely need connectivity because all these cars must run on a 5G technology communicating with each other. So we know very well that in order to maintain the successes we have reached in the past, we have to put a lot of emphasis on 5G and testing autonomously driven cars. That's why we have made the necessary infrastructural developments for that. And the program which is called Hungary Connect is very telling, I guess. And what role does Hungary play in driving the digital economy in the region and in Europe as a whole? Look, currently we are around two years ahead of the European agenda of digitalization. We would like to keep this advantage of ours. Regarding 4G and 4G+, we have a national coverage of 91.4% which puts us number eight globally and number two in the European Union. And it's not a secret, we have a plan that we become a kind of regional hub for the 5G developments. That's why we have built a very unique testing area for autonomously driven cars where we have basically built a smart city zone where these autonomously driven cars can be tested under every kind of circumstances and scenarios in an urban environment which makes this facility very unique in Europe. So we made a lot of investments in order to be frontrunners in this regard. Well, as you know, it's a subject very close to our hearts and hopefully we'll get a chance to have a look at that at some stage. Well, thank you very much for joining us in the studio and we look forward to catching up with you again, I'm sure in the very near future. We appreciate it. Thank you very much indeed. Thank you.