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Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. Good afternoon. I just want to say thank you very much for joining us. Unfortunately, COP has scuppered our plans. We found that most of our key speakers are tied up in negotiations, so we are unable and I don't think it would be fair for us to continue with the event. It is the end of the week, it's week two, most of our delegates are leaving either this evening or tomorrow, so there are frantic negotiations that are taking place at the moment and our key speakers are unable to leave those negotiations, which is completely understandable. So on behalf of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and Middle East Green Initiative, the G20 Global Land Initiative, and of course the UNCCD, we do apologize, but we have compensation. There is a veritable feast that is behind you. Please, can you tuck in and just alert your colleagues. You don't have to buy dinner this evening. There's food in the action dome. So again, ladies and gentlemen, we do apologize, but tuck in. That is the world on the way of COP. Thank you very much indeed. Thank you.
