 Your Excellency, Mr Victor Orban, Prime Minister of Hungary. Secretary-General Jaan Houlin, Honourable Ministers, Excellencies, distinguished guests. It's really a pleasure and a privilege for the World Intellectual Property Organization and for myself personally to be able to participate in this opening ceremony of World Telecom 2019. I should like to thank our hosts, the Government of Hungary. Mr Prime Minister, thank you very much for your leading role. And thank you for the opportunity to be here in the magnificent city, the magnificent city of Budapest. It's an opportunity for me also to thank Hungary for the close and long historical relationship with the World Intellectual Property Organization. Hungary has been a great supporter and very constructively engaged in international cooperation in the field of intellectual property and we are deeply grateful for that. Please allow me to thank also equally my good colleague and dear friend Jaan Houlin, the Secretary-General of the International Telecommunication Union for his leadership in international cooperation and also for his close cooperation with the World Intellectual Property Organization. Our two organizations have a long historical relationship, both being founded in the 19th century as technical agencies for international cooperation. It's a very complementary relationship. You know, going back to the origins of the ITU with the telegraph, the American writer Henry Thorough said in the 1860s, they're building a telegraph from Texas to Maine, but it may be that Texas and Maine have nothing to say to each other. And that, I think, illustrates the importance of content and content, of course, is our contribution as the World Intellectual Property Organization to the great infrastructure that is championed and sponsored for the transmission of ideas and knowledge around the world by the International Telecommunication Union. The theme of this forum, connectivity and innovation, I think, illustrates the relationship between the ITU and the World Intellectual Property Organization, but it illustrates also a much deeper truth, and that is that ideas and development are nourished by connectivity. Isaac Newton, many of you will know, said, if I have been able to achieve anything, it is only because I have been able to stand on the shoulders of giants, the giants who preceded me. So connectivity with others inspires innovation, and this is recognized in the movement of open innovation, which opens the in-house research and development laboratory to outside influences and connections. The effectiveness of this deep truth is enhanced daily by advances in telecommunications, which facilitate the transmission and exchange of knowledge and ideas and innovations throughout the world. Telecommunications are a fundamental driver of innovation in the world today. And with that proposition, of course, there is much to discuss, and I wish you all very fruitful, very enjoyable and very successful discussions throughout this World Telecom 2019. Thank you.