 Thank you, Honorable Chair, your Excellencies, Ministers of ITU Member States, Secretary-General of ITU, Mr. Hulindzaw, Elected Officials of ITU, Distinguished Delegates, Ladies and Gentlemen. Please allow me, Honorable Chair, to firstly congratulate you and your Bureau members on your successful election, at this 21st session of ITU Plenary Potentiary Conference. My delegation has full confidence in your leadership and wish you every success. Honorable Chair, let me begin by thanking the ITU for its continuous support to the developments of ICT telecommunications sector in my country, Vanuatu. Vanuatu has positively progressed over the last four years and very well on its achieving goals of the Connect 2020 agenda. There has always been our firm convictions that ICT as a neighbour will provide a common platform to bring everyone together. Honorable Chair, mobile broadband coverage has increased to over 98% of Vanuatu's total population. Vanuatu has experienced a growth of 24% in mobile subscription since the last quarter of 2016, with services becoming increasingly affordable, as reflected in the 20% market revenue increase as reported in the last quarter of 2017. Satellite broadband network has geographically covered 100% of all islands of Vanuatu, that are allowed of fibre-to-home and fibre-to-business. Together with the local presence of catching service of some bigger citizens at the Vanuatu Internet Exchange Point, combined with Dalif Frog, from 2G to 3G and 4G Plus, has seen major improvements to Internet speed in Vanuatu. These achievements could have not been delivered without the multi-stakeholders' collaboration and approach promoted in the national ICT policy. These achievements did not come with a major difficulty, attributed to the nature of the country, with islands separated by water. The Vanuatu Government acknowledges these challenges and therefore has taken strange measures to address them through development of innovative policies, for example infrastructure sharing policy, which is currently being developed. This policy strategy will enable collaboration between the government and the stakeholders to improve the office of telecommunications, radio communication and broadcasting regulator on improving quality of service, user experience and addressing areas identified as the black sports areas. Venerable Chair, Vanuatu is located on the half-quake front ring of fire that sits at the centre of the Pacific's cyclone belt and known to be the world's most at risk country for natural hazards. Vanuatu acknowledges assistance from ITU in the world currently being undertaken to establish a clear and operational national emergency telecommunications plan for Vanuatu. We also acknowledge assistance and support from the regional partners like the Asia Pacific Telecommunity, who have been working closely with Vanuatu on innovative solutions for our early warning systems for World Canada as well as post disaster recovery support solution known as Moveable and Deployable ICT Resource Unit. With the support of the Australian Government through the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, cyber affairs programme and the Asia Pacific Network Information Centre, Vanuatu has established its computer emergency response team. The rate at which the Pacific is being connected to the fibre optic submarine cable is amazing. However, our geographical locations of violence, provincial centres and communities will always remain inherent challenges. At the same time, the government and its stakeholders are committed to capacity building for Vanuatu. The Vanuatu government is also considering backup infrastructure and get away, especially the submarine cable. On a mentionné le programme de progress et l'achievement en ICT de développement. On a aussi annoncé le potentiel des technologies comme l'intelligence artificielle, smart cities, blockchain et 5G. L'intelligence artificielle a le potentiel de contribuer à des services spécifiques, mais les services comme la santé, le transport et les services de la nourriture médicales, pour les parts de la nation qui restent dans la challenged. Le potentiel de la production de technologies est considéré comme des députés d'indépendance de l'accès à la situation appropriée par le Parlement. En 2017, la Banque de l'ICT de l'ICT de l'ICT a mis en place un plan de formation de la Banque de l'ICT de l'ICT de l'ICT de l'ICT de l'ICT de l'ICT de l'ICT de l'ICT de l'ICT de l'ICT de l'ICT de l'ICT de l'ICT de l'ICT de l'ICT de l'ICT de l'ICT de l'ICT de l'ICT de l'A.C. Les services sont bénéficiaires à nos nations de l'ICT. Mais il y a aussi des issues de challenge. On croit que par notre coopérative d'engagement, on peut trouver une solution qui sera bénéficiaire pour tout. Je conclure que, en remercie sur tous nos partenaires de développement, je voudrais également expliquer notre approbation de l'appréciation de l'ICT pour être toujours en train d'assistir les membres du gouvernement. Nous remercions le gouvernement de l'Université d'Arabie, pour l'hôpital de l'hôpital de l'ICT. Merci.