 Excellencies, the ministers, Dr. Peter Hulgam, D.G. of CIFOR, distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen, a very good morning. It is the most delightful moment for me for having this most wonderful opportunity to be here in Jakarta, the beautiful capital city of Republic of Indonesia, indeed and very much proud of myself to be able to join all of you at this very special occasion of Forest Asia Summit 2014. Together, we successfully held for the first time in ASEAN continent for having this wonderful opportunity to visit a great country of Indonesia and the people. Let me express my sincere gratitude to the government of Indonesia, particularly to his Excellency, Mr. Susie Lee Ban Ban, you who you know, President of the Republic of Indonesia for his kind permission and guidance to convey the summit and his Excellency, Mr. Susie Lee Hassan, Minister for Ministry of Forestry for kindly extending invitation to me to attend this very important summit and giving me opportunity to talk. I would also like to thank Dr. Peter Hulgam, Director, General of CIFOR and his staffs for all the excellent arrangement provided to my delegation. Distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen, before I begin my plenary speech, I would like to extend my warmest greeting to you all. I would also like to express my sincere wish to you all to be in physical and spiritual well-being on this very remarkable day. On behalf of the government of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar and on my own behalf, I would also like to express my deep honour and pleasure to share my views and issues and challenges related to environment and development. As we a global community are facing at the special occasion of the Forest Asia Summit 2014 under the meaningful themes of sustainable landscapes for green growth in Southeast Asia. Furthermore, I would also like to say that today this summit reflects our regional community's strong interest to promote forestry cooperation in order to solve environmental issues such as global warming and climate change, deforestation, desertification and land degradation and droughts, loss of biodiversity and poverty. In this very broad context, I am hoping that this summit will provide the impetus to us so that our Asia region will be able to move forward. In the implementation of co-operative and partnership programming pertaining to forestry as well as green growth in Southeast Asia, therefore I am very much hopeful that the Forest Asia Summit 2014 will be able to develop brilliant synergies and ideas to materialise the regional cooperation in the years to come. In this juncture, I would like to commend to those who had developed wisdom to convey this summit because I honestly see that this summit will also serve us the symbolic in our long-term cooperation and our commitments toward implementing sustainable forest management as well as the further strengthening to achieving the common goal of sustainable development through policy, innovation and invention of modus operandi that will accelerate the implementation of low-carbon technologies such as the use of 3R, reuse and recycle and efficient use of natural resources for green growth. Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen, the common goal of our goal is to achieve sustainable development which refers to securing the planet's availability of natural resources for the present and future generations. So far, two earth summits have been held in 1992 and 2012 at Rio de Janeiro and adopted guidelines for our planet's sustainability. Green economy is one of the paramount important tools for achieving sustainable development because the green economy, green growth in the context of sustainable development and poverty eradication is one of the two main discussions areas in Rio plus 20 in the year 2012. In this regards, efficient use of natural resources is paramount important factor of green economy, green growth because it will enhance our ability to manage natural resources sustainability. Also reduce negative environmental impacts, increase resource efficiency and reduce waste. At present, the wall population is 7 billion and it is predicated that it will reach to 9 billion by the year 2050. Obviously the rise in population will have undesirable impacts to use the natural resources particularly our critical forest and plant genetic resources as well. Here I would like to highlight the critical role of environmentally sound technology, recession development, technological transfer to developing countries and technological innovation including in support of green growth in the context of sustainable development and poverty eradication. Besides I would like to say the importance of linking financing, technology, capacity building and national needs for sustainable development. Nowadays achieving our common goal of sustainable development has been the greatest challenge to our mankind particularly to the governments. The key issue here is now governments and financial institutions will set policies which can facilitate and encourage green economic opportunities and green innovation and green growth in our Southeast Asia. The overarching challenge is to create enabling policies to help scale up the existing solutions and to promote innovation for future enhancements. In this regard I would like to say that individual countries cannot overcome the inter-connected problems such as extreme poverty, drought and hunger, development gaps between the poor and the rich countries, economic instability, social inequality and environmental degradation and so on. We all know that it is vital to continue effective international cooperation so that we realise the full achievement of the development goals by maintaining the principle of common but differentiated responsibilities as the foundation of the current and future global development efforts. Here I would like to emphasise the key role of forest in seeking development because forests not only give us environmental protection functions but also provide numerous ecosystem services and therefore we have to protect and conserve forests to our utmost priority. It is also very important to position forests and landscapes at the core of ongoing policy making processes in the region related to green growth, poverty eradication, sustainable land use, climate change mitigation and adaptation, food security and nutrition and the achievement of the ASEAN community 2015. Moreover highlighting the role sustainable landscapes can lead to the achieve our hope to environmental sustainability, equitable economic development in an economically competitive and ecologically dynamic region and to narrow down the development gaps among ASEAN member states. Excellencies, distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen, while I have this opportunity I would like to share you the progress made in Myanmar politically, economically and socially. Here probably you may have witnessed yourselves, Myanmar is now under the progress of transition and democratic nation and transformation economic modalities that would pave the way to construct a democratic and developed country. Now we are actively working with the world's communities to achieve the socioeconomic development while conserving environment and changing economic path from brown to green economic development path. Similarly, significant progress in the areas of peacemaking process, educational and agricultural development, then use settlement, diplomatic ties with the other countries, forest and environmental conservation and rural development have been achieved. In this regard I would like to share you our happiness of receiving positive reflections and growing recognitions on our political, social and economic development by the international communities. Promogating of environmental conservation law in 2012, development of EIA and SIA guidance, exercising log export ban, strengthening sustainable forest management, expanding protected area network, forest law enforcement, governance and trade, flexibility and extractive industry transparency initiative EITI is a significant effort to make balance between development and environment for green group. We also initiative reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation, red plus in 2011, as a part of our efforts to reduce deforestation rate, strengthen sustainable forest management and enhance forest ecosystem services. REDD plus red nets robot was successfully developed in June 2013 and implementation of red plus robot is in progress. Myanmar is a signatory to many international conventions, agreements and treaties including UNFCCC, UNCBD, UNCCD and CHUTU protocol. It reflects that the government of Myanmar is fully committed to climate change mitigation, sustainable forest management, restoration of degraded forest ecosystems, biodiversity conservation, combating desertification and rural development activities. Accordingly, these activities are being implemented as they are high on our development agenda of green group. Good regards to conservation of natural resources including forest and wildlife, Myanmar forest policy, the forest law and the protection of wildlife and wild plants and conservation on natural areas law are in place and are being exercised as a legal framework all over the country. Besides, environmental conservation law was also enacted in 2012 in order to regulate issues related to environment. Likewise, the Myanmar National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan, MBSAP was formulated in 2011. And this framework is also comprehensive that it serves as a guiding document for biodiversity conservation, natural resources management and the sustainable utilization. Within this context, we have been trying our best to manage our forest resources on the sustainable basis for improved humanity and social equity while reducing environmental vulnerabilities and associated risks. I am hoping that this summit will be able to improve, provide platform for Asian countries to engage in bilateral and multilateral exchanges with their global counterparts, business executives, civil societies and development partners in the pursuit of new green growth pathway for development in the region. For an environmentally sustainable future, we need to value our natural resources and ecosystem services to better inform policy and decision making especially since ASEAN region is a hotspot of unique biodiversity and ecosystems. Myanmar family believes the green growth initiative in Southeast Asia will contribute the irrigation property as well as to the sustained economic growth and enhancing social inclusion, improving human welfare and creating opportunities for employment and decent work for all. By maintaining the healthy functioning of the earth ecosystems, excellencies, distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen, according to the summit agenda, I have learned that that will be a panel discussion on green growth in Southeast Asia within this broad context I am convinced and also encouraged that after my intervention, there will be a panel section and for this important section, experts from various fields of studies are here and with us and they will be contributing the environmental protection governance, sustainable resource management and the development of sustainable landscape of green growth in the ASEAN region. Lastly, but not the least, I would like to express my profound appreciation and gratitude to all the organizers, partners, international organizations, speakers and participants for their tremendous effort to successfully hold on this summit. I firmly believe that we will be able to achieve results oriented outcomes at the end of the summit. I look forward to work together with you all of you in the future. I wish you all and the Forest Asia Summit 2014 will be very successful. Thank you very much.