 Thank you Chairman. Honorable Ministers, your excellency's distinguished delegates on behalf of the government of the United Republic of Tanzania and my delegation allow me to first extend our appreciation to the government of Romania for hosting this conference and for the hospitality extended to us in this beautiful seat of which I rise since our arrival. I would like to express our heartfelt congratulation to you Mr. Chairman on your election to chair this potential conference of the ITU. On behalf of the United Republic of Tanzania, we wish to congratulate the newly elected ITU secretary general Ms. Doren Bogren Martin as an African country. We hope that your vision, commitment and determination will accomplish the real needs of member states and the interest of developing countries such as Tanzania. Chairman, allow me also to join the voice of those who have already expressed gratitude to the secretary general Mr. Holland Zhao and the staff of the ITU for successful organizing this conference and for the work they have done in the past four years in spearheading the implementation of union resolutions despite the effects brought by the covid pandemic. Tanzania has been active in various ITU initiatives which emanate from the resolutions agreed by member states. We have adopted pro-ICT policies and supportive legislation to build an ICT driven nation towards achieving sustainable dig to transformation through the following initiatives. First investment in dig to infrastructures such as the national ICT broadband backbone which connects all administrative district headquarters, regions and all unlock neighboring countries. Second by having in place a legal framework that has erects dig to transformation that helped in increasing ICT applications in various sectors of the economy including agriculture, health and education among others. Chairman, recently Tanzania has introduced in the parliament the data protection bill a critical component of African vision 2030. We look forward to passing this law in the next few months is to further open the country to investment for the wider benefit of Tanzania and the region. Chairman Tanzania is working very closely with the ITU to bridge the dig to divide through the use of telecommunications and ICT solutions especially in addressing the needs of the most marginalized members of a society namely women and girls, youth older persons and persons with disabilities. ICT innovations have today made it possible for the millions of formerly unbanked populations of Tanzania, mostly living in rural communities to be financially included via mobile money. Today there are more than 35 million users of mobile money compared to 23 million users in the year 2018. We have put efforts in building institutions that will help dig to transformation in the country. These institutions include ICT commission and the universal communication services access fund which to date access has connected more than 12 million populations living in rural areas to broadband connectivity. As we gather at the ITU PP 2022, we believe that Tanzania's experience in the communication sector can best fit and be shared with the ITU family especially at this juncture when the sector is fast involving and the international community is steadily utilizing information and communications technologies as tools for social and economic development. I therefore wish to reaffirm our commitment to cooperate and share with the other member states the ITU secretariat and the regional offices to make ITU an eminent international body that continues to play its role in enhancing social economic development of all member countries as such Tanzania has put its candidature to the seat of the ITU council representing region D. We are requesting all ITU members to vote Tanzania to the ITU council so that we can share our experiences with the ITU family and the further contributed to our shared objectives of the ITU and as you have seen we are inviting all to join us this evening at 5 30 to our reception whereby you can enjoy the kindness of the land of Kilimanjaro, Gorongoro Creator and Serengeten Zanziba. Chairman on behalf of the government of Tanzania and my delegation, I would like to express my profound gratitude once again to the government of Romania for hosting this remarkable conference and wish success in its deliberations. Thank you very much.