 I'm here today in front of the International Telecommunication Union with Zabin Zermas, the chair designate of the ITU Planetary Potentiary Conference, ITU's highest governing body. Welcome Zabin. Thank you Monika for inviting me. You will be welcoming in a few months from 26 September to 14 October the ITU Planetary Potentiary Conference, more than 2,000 delegates to Bucharest, Romania, the host country. So at the last Planetary Potentiary Conference we broke records in gender balance. And this time we not only want to aim for more than 35 percent of women delegates, among all delegates, but also that they assume chairing roles in key committees and working groups and that they mainstream gender in ITU, PP decisions and resolutions. So what's your perspective on this Zabin? I'm more than happy to be part of this because we are moving forward, we are beyond all the resolution that we are having debates here, we are talking about gender equality, we are talking about youth, we are talking about green and so on, this is great. I think it's for the first time in the PP history when we are having a plan to encourage and training for the women delegates to take position in the leadership during the PP. And we are thinking about not having just a balance in the number of delegates both women and men, but also in having, as you said, women taking position of chairs of the communities or vice chairs to represent the countries, the delegations and to have more power during the conference. And another important thing is that we need to think on long term. I mean we need to have this as a legacy for the ITU. This kind of process should last, it's not just one time event that stops there because we are not going to achieve any results if we don't have a long time strategy and as I said, a legacy from this event from the ITU. Thank you Sabin. So you just said that you're doing this in a long term perspective. So ahead of the conference and during the conference, what can the host country do? What is the host country doing to make the conference gender responsive? As the conference is in Romania, I think Romania should do everything to support other countries to have events like Australia is doing. They are providing the training during the conference and prior to the conference for women in general. We as a country have to support all the events that have real impact on this as well. But I have to add something about Romania and this is going to surprise you a bit. We are on the second place in Europe when we're talking about equal pay for equal work and we all are aware that beside all the politics, all the strategies, the real facts like equal pay for equal work is very important as well. You can see in my team, I think leading by example is something that everybody should do. You can see my team, so I have a team of real professional and great women which are supporting me during this preparatory process and I think there are both in government and both in private sector in Romania. I can see that Romania is performing real well. I mean a lot of women involved in ITSC in general and doing great, just great job for our country or for our government as well. You'll see this at the PP as well because they are not only technical people involved but also in the preparatory process, in the leadership position, you'll see a lot of women involved from Romanian side. I can confirm that. We have been working with competent and charming women around you and we will catch up later with Sabin again when we talk about how to make PP as green and inclusive of use as possible. Thank you Sabin. Thank you Onika. This is the assembly hall of the International Telecommunication Union at ITU headquarters here in Geneva where we catch up again with Sabin on how to make PP inclusive of use. How can we engage young people in that conference and beyond? ITU with Rwanda will be hosting a Generation Connect Global Use Summit from 2nd to 4th of June just in a few months ahead of the World Telecommunication Development Conference in Rwanda, Kigali. As for Romania, how is Romania making sure that the voice of young people is heard at the conference Sabin? I think now about the resolution 198 which is the empowerment of youth and how the young people can contribute to that. I expect that young people from all regions will have a real contribution to this resolution because they are entitled to do that. They are fresh-minded, they have a different approach and that is something that they can provide to the ITU and to the society in general. I think also it's important to add what are we doing as a country, as a host country and what I'm doing as a chairman of the conference in order to promote the youth, the young people, not just in the ITU but to promote the ITU to the young people. We are trying to use the channels that they are using to get informed. We are trying to use social media, to use TikTok in order to show them why it's important ITU, why it's important what's happening here. We are going to be in universities to explain to the young people, to the students what's happening at the plenipotentiary in Romania how could they engage in this process and how could they help, let's say, not only by contributing to a specific resolution because not every one of them will have the chance to do that but just to get in touch with this ecosystem, with an institution of the United Nations as ITU is. Thank you Sabin and now the first delegates are coming back to the plenary because right now ITU council is taking place here at ITU and we're moving on and we will catch up again in no time. We are here at ITU headquarters in front of one of the brand new recycling stations. Sustainability is a big objective of the new ITU headquarters building which is set to open its doors in 2027. Romania is set to open its doors to PP delegates late in September this year and we're here again with Sabin to catch up on how Romania is making PP as green as possible. Hi Monique again. ITU is an UN institution and UN proposed sustainable development goals. It's clear that we need to fulfill those goals, we need to stay with the agreement we have in Paris for having a green world in the end. So we set up some goals for the ITU like reducing the electricity energy consumption during the PP which is not easy having such a big venue but it's a chance for the venue itself and for the events itself to have this. Having electric cars for the transportation of all the delegates it's not possible to have 100% just electrical cars but we are having a partnership with some companies that can provide us electrical cars to have a green transportation trying to recycle biodegradable products and beside this using technology in all the old aspects of the conference. I mean I'm basically an IT guy, I'm using no paper during the conference, I'm using all the tools that are useful and you in the ITU I've seen that are doing a lot of your work just using electronic solutions, online solutions most of the time. We are going to have an application with all the information about the events so you don't need to print anything for knowing what's happening next day or seeing an agenda and so on. The same application is going to show you where you are in the parliament because it's a huge venue and it's going to help you to go from a room to the other so probably will reduce a bit the signalling by paper and so on. So all this thing we are going to help us in having a green PP and I think having a green PP it's beyond the event itself because it's giving us a message the ITU community in the way that we should stay with all, as I said at the beginning, all the sustainable development goals of the United Nations. Thank you Sabin and I'm very confident that Romania is on track to make PP as gender responsive, green and inclusive of use as possible. Thanks for all the information, the explanations and to our stakeholders and ITU members coming to PP. We also call on you on making your contribution to making the conference green, gender responsive and inclusive of use and we look forward to seeing you in Romania.