 Thank you very much, Professor Therry. First of all, it's a great opportunity to be amongst you today to speak, representing my continent, Africa, and also giving you some examples from my own country, Ethiopia. First of all, you know that Africans, we try to unify with the organization of African unity 50 years ago, and we try to evaluate the decolonization process. And we were successful politically to decolonize ourselves, but we have not been successful in many ways, especially serving our citizens, changing the lives of our people and having good governance and, as well as, again, democratizing Africa. So I think the main issue is the last 15 years or so, you might have been hearing about Africa, that Africa is a rising continent. Africa is a giant lion, you know, which has risen from sleeping, a sleeping giant. And many narratives have been spoken about Africa. But my discussion, you know, is informed in five points which I want to mention. The first one is my continent is a very young continent. That's to say, both in terms of the age of the population, the demography, the structure of the demography shows that Africa is a very young continent. Again, not only in terms of demography, but also in terms of natural resources and abundance of opportunities. Africa is still young, which has not been harnessed, which calls for a policy choice to base our policies, depending on this. So the first thing is, if our population is very young, dynamic, which is also technology-friendly, then how can we harness this demography dividend is one of the main issues that has to be addressed. This has a far-reaching implications because it also has something to do with our neighbors, especially Europe. Our young people who are traveling through the Mediterranean, drowning into the sea, needs an opportunity. So the first thing is an opportunity and also a challenge for us as a continent. So our policies should be informed by this structure of the demography in Africa. So this is the first thing. We in Ethiopia and in many countries in Africa, we recognize this fact and we started by building education, mainly quality education and technical and vocational skills and occupational skills. That's very essential to make our young, dynamic population to be very active in the economic sphere. Not only in the economic sphere, but Africa has been challenged. One of it is most of our leaders are very old. So now there is a challenge. These young people are impatient. They are asking Africans to have young leaders who can understand the real quest in the continent. So this is a big challenge. It's a big challenge that has continued to be a challenge and something has to be done. An example in my country is my prime minister after me is a 42 years old. So he can understand better than myself. I am 53. So I think this is essentially something which Africa has to address. While we are doing, you know, giving technical and vocational skills and making our young people to be employable but we have to address also their political quest which is to engage and be part of the process. Now many people are saying you are the future of Africa but they are saying we are the current leaders of Africa. They are not only future of Africa. So I think this is a big issue which informs our policy decision. In Ethiopia we are trying to address this issue. The second is the gender issue. Again, if we want to serve our people the gender imbalance issue has to be addressed. So some countries in Africa are trying to address this issue especially in the leadership at the high level. We are now 50-50 in our cabinet, you know, 50% of women and 50% men in Ethiopia. Similarly in Rwanda and many other African countries are also now emulating. I think this is the basic challenge because 50% of our population, even in Africa, beyond 50% are women. And without embracing this section of the society we cannot move forward in Africa. I think this is a very important issue and should be addressed in a way that resolves the thing. The second issue which informed policy decisions in Ethiopia and in Africa is disruptive technologies and the advancement of digital economy. I think this is also a very important issue we have to address. If we want to expedite economic growth and have a vibrant economy in the country we have to leapfrog with the technological advancement and this is an opportunity for Africa. So I think the second issue we focused is in this area with the e-governance, e-commerce and e-services both in government and private entities and I think these are very important issues that we have to look into. And this helps to integrate us in Africa. There is infrastructure deficit in Africa and if we have to leapfrog and address this physical infrastructure deficit we need to go further in digital economy and digital technology which helps us to move faster. So I think this is the second issue. The third is there is throat cutting competition amongst the global competitors. All of them are looking into Africa. Now Africa is no more a humanitarian case. Africa has become a trade and investment case now. So I think this has to be properly understood. Things has changed. Used to be a basket case, a humanitarian case but now that is in the process of changing. So I think if that's the case how can we work with the global competitors in an amicable way where when everybody comes to Africa to work in, invest in, to have a coordinated effect. In Ethiopia we have some examples where different coordinates, the east and the west and the south are cooperating in helping the country to move forward. So we work with the United States, we work with the European Union, we work with China, we work with Japan, we work with Middle East. So I think used to be you have to side some part in their fight and that is not the case now. We have to be very conscious in Africa to get all the necessary support from all corners of the globe. I think this competition helps Africa to move forward but on the hazard hand it has an impeding situation and we have to see that it is a coordinated effort. I think with the emergence of these global players now if you take an example of my country which has moved the last 15 years in double digit growth of 10.3% which is similar to Korea in 1960s or China in recent years. So I think this kind of economic growth is very essential because without a fast and accelerated economic growth reduction of poverty in Africa will remain to be at its low level. So we need to move very fast, you know, out of the 10 global fast growing economies, 6 of them are in Africa, but that still is not enough, 54 countries but we have to move very fast in economic growth. But my country is a stark example in this regard having achieved this and bringing about poverty reduction for millions of people in the country which is about 100 million population. I think we have a huge challenge in Africa in terms of another force point which informs our policy choice is state capture and poor governance which is very, very detrimental for fast economic growth and I see state fragility in some parts and some of the African countries are failed states so we have to work very hard to bring all the African nations to the same level of peace and tranquility and growth. So in this regard I believe that the fight zero tolerance for corruption and poor governance addressed and above all our citizens participation, civil society movement, if there is no proper civilized activism then it's very difficult to control governments. So I think the civil society movement should be at the core of African growth and development narrative. So I believe that this is one of the main issues we have to address. I believe there is resource depletion and there is also climate change issue which is very essential. Africa contributing very less to the global greenhouse gas emission but the most attacked and impacted continent is Africa. So we need justice. Climate justice is always should be there at the core of our policy making. Otherwise civilized countries or developed countries with their actions because of this greenhouse gas emission Africa is suffering but we wanted to take responsibility as global responsible citizens. We in Ethiopia we designed climate smart or resilient green growth strategy where we have to be morally responsible and show to developed countries that even though we are contributing very less to the global greenhouse gas emission we have to take responsibility by ourselves. And as a late commerce we have that advantage and we should show that. In this regard we focused on smart agriculture which is climate smart agriculture and eco industrial parks and environmentally friendly industrial development. We also worked as yesterday. Morocco has given us an example on renewable energies which reduces the greenhouse gas emission. All the potentials we have we are harnessing. For example my country Ethiopia has huge potential from hydro 60,000 megawatts. Geothermal potential 20,000 megawatts and we have wind. It is abundant 1.1 gigawatts of energy capacity and solar Africa is abundantly in doubt. So I think all these renewable energy sources we are harnessing. Ethiopia currently we have an installed capacity of around 5,000. 95% of it is from renewable sources. And again we are building and having facilities more than 50,000 megawatts under construction. So all this shows that we took responsibility by our own but we demand also the global community to act. And we do not agree with the policy of certain countries who are backtracking from the Paris agreement because I think this is detrimental for our children for our existence in the future. So I think we have to save our planet and we are setting an example in our countries. Beyond that we have problems with terrorism, violent extremism which has to be addressed. It's a challenge. It's a challenge because if we don't create jobs to our young people there is no option for them to survive or thrive in the countries. So they opt for any kind of extreme ideology comes in they accept it. So it is up to us to address the problems of our young people who are joining these terrorist groups and violent extremism taking place in many places. So I think these are the main issues that inform our policy and implementation and fairly we are successful in many ways and we will continue with this and the best practices and examples exist in many African countries but we have to emulate those things and scale up to many African countries. Thank you.