 It's a great pleasure to be here with you in Dubai for this spring meeting of our broadband commission. So welcome you to this meeting, and particularly for those new commissioners joining us for the first time. Every time our chairman will invite each of you, newly join us to say a few words to introduce yourself. I would like to express my warm thanks to my co-chair, co-vice chair, sorry, Madam Irina Bukova. I think she will join us any moment. We are sorry about that our co-chairs, President Kagami and Carlos Lim, could not be here with us today, as we just heard. This is the first time President Kagami cannot join us at our meeting. And since July, two times a year as the president of country, he never missed any meeting. And he really want to join us this time. And last time I met him in Davos in January, he reconfirmed to me again, he will come. But for some unexpected circumstances, he cannot join. And I understand that at this moment, new minister will be allowed to leave their country. And with the very exception that our chairman for communicating youth was sent by President Kagami to revamp him at our meeting. We are very grateful. And Carlos Lim also promised to come again. Unfortunately, in the middle of February, he told me that for some urgent matters he cannot come. He asked his well-crucified collaborator, Huck, Carlos, to join. And Huck was not prepared because he thought that Mr. Carlos Lim will come so that he will find very big industry actions in Madrid these two days, exactly. Because he firmly believed that Carlos Lim will come to join us. And then he actually could not leave because exactly today, in Madrid, he has to manage his company's business. It's also a first time. We did not have neither Carlos Lim nor he should be there to join us. But they are both very busy for the time moment with unexpected situations. But the same, the message is very clear to us that they strongly support our commission. And it's work. And we look forward to seeing them in New York, I think it's the 18th of September. So please mark this date, 18 September, this year in New York. Let me also express my sincere appreciation to our host, Sonia Vaki and his team, who have been fantastic in welcoming and supporting us all. I understand Sonia Vaki will join us later today because he has to chair some working sessions this morning at this moment. Distinguished colleagues, 2015 was a momentous year for the United Nations system. It was, of course, the 70th anniversary of the UN. But more importantly, it saw the adoption of the sustainable development course, SDGs, which expanded on the solid foundations led down by the MDGs in the year 2000. It is our shared conviction that today, more than ever before, broadband and ICTs offer large-scale opportunities to empower individuals, transform economies, and contribute to development. This is the view which I think we all share around this table. The UN is now getting to grips with the detailed exercises of establishing how we are going to measure and monitor the SDGs. And I know many of us here are engaged and closely involved in that work. Ladies and gentlemen, there are also momentous times for the ICT industry. For a start, thanks in part to many of the players assembled here around the table. We are seeing an explosion in mobile broadband and 4G around the world. We are seeing significant and accelerating momentum for the awards of 4G license by regulators and 4G networks launched by operators. Recently, joint tests by Telstra, Edison, and Qualcomm offer realistic perspective of download and upload speeds of one gigabit per second speeds. And 150 megabits per second commercially available over a mobile network by the end of this year. This development will smash the long-standing, rough ratio between fixed and mobile network speeds of around 10 to 1. This is a very exciting development, promising fixed-like capacities and throughput over mobile access networks. The potential for development could be enormous. Just think of all the applications that could be made possible by expanding mobile access capacities in M banking, M health, or M learning applications. So I'm very pleased to my colleague, Madam Irina Bukova, is just coming to join us. So, even though you have arrived at a very right moment, that I will close my remarks. None of these will come cheaply, however. And at our special session in Davos in January, the Broadband Commission published an estimate of the cost of $450 billion for connecting the next 1.5 billion people by 2020, which is a very considerable sum of money. So obviously governments and industry will have to work together in partnership to be able to fund and finance new and upgraded networks. We should not be too preoccupied by transmission speeds. However, as I believe the work of the Broadband Commission has shown, the true potential of a broadband for development does not lie in increased speeds, but rather the way broadband will change our approach and transform the ways in which we are doing our jobs. For example, how will health and education sectors adapt to the digital transition? Most people would agree with doctors or nursing staff having access to confidential health files in the name of diagnosing and treating diseases. But what would happen if that information were leaked or shared internationally with health insurance providers? I know there were some discussions of that in the working group meeting yesterday. In the classroom, electronic teaching methods can be used to inform and educate and enhance learning, but at the same time, students may get distracted or derailed. And is there any evidence that digital learning methods can really replace teachers? Most people would argue that ICTs can be used to enhance access to teachers, including remote access, but can computers ever really replace or substitute even partly for person-to-person explanations to help overcome students' learning difficulties? And that is also why I'm very pleased to be here at the GEMS forum to learn from the broader discussion about how we can transform our way of thinking, not just to accommodate digital technologies into existing ways of educating students, but how to ensure that real-world processes are redesigned to impress and really integrate digital approaches. To distinguish the colleagues as this is a working meeting, we are expecting certain things from you in addition to your insights and debates. I just learned a couple of weeks ago, two weeks ago, there's a proposal from DATU, our commissioner, with some nice proposals. We had some consultations. I think that we will continue to debate on those topics raised by our colleagues before the meeting. So I'm looking forward to these meetings to continue those debates. In particular, as the commissioners' targets are now five years old, we would like to ask you for your inputs and insights with regards to modernizing and updating them, noting that over the past five years, the targets have really helped highlight the commissioners' work and allowed us to measure the real progress that has made. And these are particularly shared by our coaches when I talk to them by phone. So they expect us to set up some new targets if possible. I'd also like to note that the recent launch of the U.S. State Department's Global Connector Initiative, I support this initiative to work together to connect the world, particularly for the next 1.5 billion online. And I invite you to preach your support individually as the full commission for April 14th this year in Washington, D.C. It could be good if we can find concrete ways to work together between this meeting and the New York Broadband Commission meeting in the fall as there are undoubtedly synergies to be gained from a closer alliance between our two bodies. So dear colleagues, thank you. And let me conclude this briefing remarks by wishing you all a very productive and a fruitful meeting. I now pass the floor back to the chair. Thank you very much.