 Your Highness, Tamim Bin Ahmad Alatani, Emile of the State of Qatar. Your Highness, we are extremely honored to have you as our special guest for the first time at our annual meeting in Davos. Since many years, we have a strong cooperation with your country. And in 2010, I remember when we jointly hosted the Global Redesign Summit in Doha to address the aftershocks of the financial 2007-2008 crisis. Under your leadership, Your Highness, both as a crown prince and now as the Emile of Qatar, your country has become a major, major force in global affairs. Small country, big influence. Today, Qatar has established a reputation as a real partner in international peace, diplomacy, and mediation. You have expanded Qatar's ties with your neighbors, including with Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Turkey. You have successfully mediated conflicts in Africa, in the Middle East, and Asia, contributing substantially to international stability and the resolutions of conflicts. The current war in Ukraine has further highlighted the importance of Qatar, with countries in Europe and elsewhere looking to your country to meet the energy needs. Soaring oil prices boosted Middle East oil for the users, especially your country, and this at a time when Europe reduces energy imports. What has always impressed me is the forward orientation of your country and your policies, particularly also in the area of education, for example. You have now six of the best global universities in Doha, while Qatar University has established a reputation as a center of excellence. Finally, Your Highness, you played a major role in shaping Qatar's contributions to the world of sports. Qatar has started to play a leading role as a global sports destination, hosting the Grand Prix, Qatar, and of course, we all are looking forward to the World Cup, FIFA World Cup, Qatar 22. I will come back to this in the following session. Please join me all in welcoming His Highness Tamin bin Hamad Al-Tanih. Mr. Chairman, ladies and gentlemen, the current session of the World Economic Forum is of exceptional importance, for it is happening in the midst of economic challenges and geopolitical turmoil. Before we can hope for economic prosperity, we must first examine, repair, and enforce our framework for peace. And we need to send a reassuring message to people around the world, only through unity. We can overcome the conflict that divides us. I can tell you that after years of peace facilitation through mediation that we can never give up hope. We should never give up trying to bring parties together. As long as we believe our efforts could save even a single life, our attempts to mediate will be worth it. Our United efforts need to be based on principles already agreed on in the Charter of the United Nations international law and respecting each other's sovereignty. In recent decades, we have witnessed the marginalization of the role of the United Nation, the transaggression of the rule of law in international relations, and the breakdown of basic respect for one another's independence. Solving dispute through aggression is on the rise. And it has reached one of its worst peaks in the war here in Europe. We are in touch with all parties concerned in the Ukrainian crisis. And I am ready to contribute to every international and regional effort to find an immediate peaceful solution to the conflict between the Russian Federation and Ukraine. Qatar firmly rejects the aggression of the sovereignty of states and any act that would constitute a violation of international law. We stand in solidarity with the millions of innocent refugees who are victims of this European war and with the victims of all other wars taking place right now, victims of every race, nationality, and religion. I want us to help all of them. As we rightly apply laser focus to find a diplomatic solution to the Ukrainian crisis, I hope we can equally give as much attention and effort to resolving all those forgotten or ignored conflicts. They all deserve peace, security, and dignity. The most glaring example is in Palestine, which has been an open wound since the establishment of the United Nations. Those families have been occupied for decades with no relief inside. The escalation in illegal settlement aggression has been relentless. And the same goes for the continued attacks against the Palestinian people. I keep praying that the world wakes up to the injustice and violence and finally acts. Shireen Abu-Aqla, a Palestinian-American journalist, was killed two weeks ago in Palestine and then robbed of a dignified burial. Shireen was covering the suffering of the Palestinian people for decades, and our hearts are broken. Her death was just as horrific as the seven journalists killed in Ukraine since March of this year, and 18 other journalists killed in Palestine since 2000, and many others journalists killed in the line of duty in Iraq, Syria, and Yemen. In the 21st century, we should not tolerate these aggressions, and we should not accept a world where governments have double standards about the value of people based on the religion, region, or race. We consider the value of each European life to be just as precious as someone from our region. Distinguished audience, as a small state, maintaining regional and international peace and security constitute a special priority for the state of Qatar. We work tirelessly to help manage, solve, mitigate conflicts, including our ongoing efforts in Afghanistan. We were honored to be able to help with the evacuation efforts in Afghanistan, and it was only possible, thanks to the years spent investing in peacekeeping, expert mediation, state-of-the-art military and special forces, search-and-rescue teams, ranked as some of the best in the world, and the countless hours of sweat, tears, from so many. All those years of investment, training, building strategic partnership paid off. At a time when we were needed to step in and rescue people, I'm so grateful for all your sacrifices. My friends, I also consider protecting the environment to be a responsibility for all of us. Qatar has placed sustainability front and center and focused our rescue resources to develop emission reduction technologies and cleaner energy. We intend to play an active role in encouraging regional and international policy development surrounding both energy and environment. We have all seen over the past months what happens when we don't work together. At this critical moment in time, we must wisely balance the need to take care of the environment and simultaneously provide energy security for the world. This will take coordination and intense collaboration between all governments, companies, stakeholders, and every one of us. Because every single one of us needs energy. And right now, almost 1 billion people are still without a reliable energy source. As one of the largest producers of liquefied natural gas in the world, Qatar invested in LNG expansion efforts for years, understanding that LNG is a critical-based load energy source needed during the transition which is already taking place. Increased energy production can provide the world with a cleaner, safer, more reliable, and flexible energy. Achieving global energy security will lead to market stability and reduce the economic effects of the current energy crisis. Ladies and gentlemen, as most of you know, for the first time in the Middle East, Qatar will be hosting the FIFA World Cup the end of this year. We are working hard, so this major sport event can allow our entire region the chance to host the world. For decades now, the Middle East has suffered from discrimination. And I have found out that such discrimination is largely based on people not knowing us, and in some cases, refusing to get to know us. Even today, there are still people who cannot accept the idea that an Arab Muslim country would host a tournament like the World Cup. These individuals, including many in positions of influence, have launched attacks at a pace never seen before when a mega-sporting event was hosted by other countries on different continent. Despite the fact that each of those countries has its own particular problem and challenges, Qatar is just like your own country, not perfect, constantly trying to improve and full of hope for a brighter future. We are so proud of the development, reform, and progress we have made. And we are grateful for the spotlight that the World Cup provided, which inspired us to make these changes at a lightening speed. I assure everyone listening that this edition of the World Cup will be a special one. We believe that sport is a tool for positive change, promote tolerance and respect, empower youth, and inspire unity. We stand by that belief. And I hope you will join us to discover the beautiful game as it has played in our country. Ladies and gentlemen, our common interest, our common responsibility, and the common destiny of all humanity required partnership so we can all live together in peace. I thank you very much. Highness, thank you very much for sharing with us your principal ideas. I would like to follow up with some questions. You recently were hosted by President Biden at the White House in January 22. And during the visit, President Biden designated Qatar as a major non-NATO ally. Some weeks later, I think you were in China. You visited President Xi. And you also discussed the Belt and Road Initiative. So my question would be, how do you balance your relationship in this conflictual world, particularly between the US on the one side and China on the other side? Well, the US is a, we have a great relationship with the US. The US is a very strategic partnership. And this designation is a recognition for the role of Qatar in the Middle East and all around the world. And after that, as you mentioned, Professor, yes, I am an IOC member of International Committee, Olympic International Committee. And I had the chance to visit Beijing for the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympic Games. And I had the chance to visit President Xi and have a meeting with him. This recognition of Qatar is because of the role, as I said, that we've been doing in the last couple of years. And peace facilitation, humanitarian aid. And also, we work very closely with our allies in America and Europe as well to counter terrorism. We have this great understanding. And as I said, we are doing a lot in peaceful facilitation. And one important role that we're doing as well, humanitarian aid, we are very proud and happy that we are helping to educate more than 12 million people around the world. This is very important. And also in our region, we are helping to create jobs by helping the youth to create their own business. We, as I said, we work very closely together with our allies to counter terrorism. Also, our duty, we are blessed with the resources. We need to also work in parallel to give the youth in our region hope by good education and create jobs. Because this is very important to prevent any, let's say, extremism or terrorism. China, we have a very good relationship with China. We have a very strong economic relationship with China. And we supply China with gas. Also, how we see the world is, we don't want to see the world as polarized between two big superpowers. This is not the interest of all of us, including many countries in the West as well. Being a peace facilitator for many decades, we believe the only way to solve all those conflicts is through dialogue. We understand there are conflicts and there are differences. But we should never give up hope. And I think the only way is for them to sit together and try and solve all those disputes. Your Highness, I will come back to this question later. But I would like to take up what you said about Qatar as a major, I think, second largest exporter of gas, just to take suffigar 77 million metric tons per year. Now, you have received quite a number of your helpings in the world in its energy transformation and reaching energy independence. You have received particularly visitors from Europe. And my question would be, to what extent actually do you feel that the gas created by your country can fill the gap which is arising in Europe? Yeah, that's the topic now that everyone is speaking about. We have to understand that this energy crisis wasn't due to the war in Europe. It was way before that. But of course, the war in Europe maybe made it more difficult. We took the risk years ago to invest in the LNG expansion, understanding that this LNG is needed for the transition period. We are exploring markets. We understand that there is a need and demand for gas. Qatar is a reliable partner. We make sure as well that we do a lot in energy and we do also a lot in environment, which is very important in our vision. So yeah, I mean, with all those expansion, we make sure that we have the state of the art technology to make sure that this progress in LNG will also reduce any issues concerning the environment. The technologies actually are very, very fascinating and interesting the way how things happen. I mean, it's a very technical issue as much as our Minister of Energy tries to explain to me, it's just so complicated. But it's very interesting how now the flame reduction is working now. We've been spending a lot of investment in that. It's just how the flame, instead of going out, we try to reduce the flame, reduce the pressure. Because of the pressure, you need to release the flame. So we are having technologies in reducing the flame, even with the new technologies on the ships as well, that we have the new ships. Instead of going out with the flame, we make sure that the gas comes back in the ship and also helps fuel the energy for the ships. So all those are new technologies. And as much as we do with the gas expansion, we make sure that it's sustainable and we protect the environment. And your important role, Your Highness, in the creation of hydrogen, which is a major subject of discussion also during this meeting. Yes, it is. I know that. Your Highness, you referred to the mediation role you have taken on. And I mean, to my mind comes particularly also how you facilitated the task. The talks between the US and the Taliban, you mentioned yourself, some of your engagements. You just visited last week, if I'm not mistaken, Iran. And you are acting as an important intermediary between actually the parties to revives the 2015 nuclear accord. Could you say some words about it? And could you also say, if you look at the global landscape and where mediation is needed, what could be your priorities at this moment? Yeah, as I mentioned, our geostrategic role in our region is for peace, facilitation, and also to supply and energy security as well. So we've been playing this role for decades now. And we understood that the best way and the only way to solve dispute and conflict is through sitting on a table and negotiation. You mentioned about Afghanistan. Yes, we've been working closely with our allies in negotiation in Afghanistan. And it paid off. It paid off. Well, we're still very far away. We still have issues and problems we understand. But maintaining this dialogue is very, very important. Iran, as I said, we're not playing an official role to mediate between the West and Iran. But Iran is our next door neighbor. We have a good understanding and a good relationship with Iran. And our role as well is to try to help and to encourage all parties to come back to this agreement. So that was my message to our Iranians that we encourage them to come back to this agreement. Your Highness, we need so much bridge building in the world that also the World Economic Forum is trying to be a bridge builder in our conflictual world. Now, can you share with me the secret to be successful in bridge building? Well, there's no secret and there's no magic. But we're grateful that people, when they come and ask us, they trust us. We have a track record of being honest and bringing people together. And this is our role. We should never give up. Believe me, many negotiations were so, so difficult. And at some point, you feel that we're not going to go forward. But we should never give up. We are a small country. And we play this role and we continue playing this role. And as I said, any contribution for peace and stability in the region and any part of the world, we will not hesitate when we're asked to do so. So it means trust, openness, that's it. Yeah, trust and persistence. Persistence, never give up. Sometimes it's very difficult. You just want to run away from it. But now you should never give up. Keep on going, keep on going. Because this line of communication is very important. To conclude our session, Your Highness, on behalf of all the participants, I want to thank you and I want to wish you to continue with your important task. I wish you courage, persistence, and success. Thank you. Thank you very much.