 And as announced previously, we have the right now and before we go to the next point of our agenda, following the visit to Ukraine last month, it was possible for the Committee of the Regions to not only express to the Ukrainian government, namely to President Zelensky, the support and the willingness of the Committee of the Regions to Ukraine, but also to strengthen the partnership that can exist between the two sides to promote the cause of local and regional self-government. Today, it's our honor and pleasure for the Committee of the Regions to have a message from President Zelensky exactly about this. Before going to the message, I would like to welcome to our meeting the Deputy Head of the Ukrainian Embassy Mission to the European Union Ambassador Tadezhko and ask him to convey to Ukrainian authorities and to President Zelensky our deep appreciation for his willingness to share with us some words, some thoughts, and to convey also our full support and the war efforts and the preparation for the accession of Ukraine to the United to the European Union and also in the cause of the local and regional democratic self-government. Ladies and gentlemen, I think we are ready. And in fact, this way of life, we are also now united, united as never before, from the Dutch to the Eastern Ukraine, we see the only principles based on the organization of joint life, based on the control of the countries, based on the interaction between the state and the communities. Democracy and the respect for the individuality, the equality between the people and the communities, the respect for others and the power of the United Nations, all of this is our Europe, all of this is us and all of this is what we should not find in our common enemy. We must remember this. We are now fighting not only for the share of one of our countries, not only for the share of the Eastern Europe, but also for the share of all of Europe, which it has to stay, stay after us and you, ladies and gentlemen. When the cities and communities of Europe, your cities and communities, give support to our people, they help more than just people, they help ideas of Europe, our common home of all Europeans. And I thank you for this. When the Committee of the Regions of the European Union and your cities and communities work directly with Ukraine, with our cities and communities, this is a cooperation that strengthens and not just us and with you, but our Europe gives it strength. Thank you for this. When we introduced the decentralization reform in our country, we focused on the best European practice of governance and decentralization between the center and the communities. Now the control system in Ukraine, even in the conditions of the military time, corresponds to the European system of democracy. There may be different national views on what to do, what to do with the specific system of power in a specific country, but the basic principle of respect for the regions, respect for the government and community are obvious for everyone. Such examples of our common unity, of the common values of our common rights of life, are enough. I am sure they will soon give a logical result. And the most fundamental connection of Ukraine to the European Union. I thank you for the fact that you support of our people on the path of integration and I am also sure that there will be one more thing Ukraine will be such a part of Europe in which there will be no ruins left. We will take every ruins that Russia has brought to its war. We will rebuild everything, we will do everything so that our strength, the strength of our people will be clear. In Ukraine there is a special institution, the Congress of the local and regional authorities. It is the Maydanchik that we have created to give more opportunities for the development of our region and the village, to make a better cooperation between the central authorities and the local authorities. Obviously, the Congress has to play a fundamental role in the construction programs. I invite you to cooperate at all levels, from the Congress of the local and regional authorities of Ukraine, as well as at the level of the entire committee of regions of the EU, as well as directly at your regions, our regions, your cities and communities, our cities and communities. I invite you to get to work and with the offices of the international cooperation that are being created for the most active work of the reconstruction of Ukraine. I invite you to visit our country, to visit the part of our Europe in which the share of our Europe is now resolved. It is resolved both as a weapon and as a reconstruction, both as a war and as an institution, as well as at the level of the central authorities and at the level of every village that values what we are the free Europeans. Thank you for your support. Thank you, Mr. President, for your attention, for the Committee on Ukraine. Glory to Ukraine!