Hon. Aggrey Awori Minister of Information and Communications Conference 2010 and for the warm hospitality ac-corded to the delegates since our arrival. We are also thankful to the ITU for the wonderful organization in ensuring the success of this conference. Mr. Chairman, I wish to take this opportunity to con-gratulate Dr. Hamadoun Toure, Mr. Houlin Zhao, and Mr. Malcom Johnson, upon their reelection to the respective posts of Secretary General, Deputy Secretary General and Director Telecommunication Standardization Bureau. Please accept our heartfelt congratulations. We look forward to your continued good leadership of the Union. We are pleased that the Plenipotentiary Conference 2010 will consider issues that are indeed pertinent to us in Uganda, such as; • Emergency telecommunications for Africa region • Assistance to countries in special need • Cyber security Mr. Chairman; Your Excellencies, Ministers, Ambassadors and High Commissioners; The Secretary General-ITU; Deputy Secretary General, ITU; The Directors of BDT, TSB, BR; Heads of Delegation; Distinguished Ladies and Gentlemen; I bring warm greetings from the government and people of Uganda to you all distinguished delegates. • Broadband and infrastructure development • ICT and climate change and • Review of International Telecommunications Regulations Mr. Chairman, since 1998, Uganda has had a technol-ogy neutral licensing regime, which has brought forth a number of opportunities. As in the rest of the African continent, Uganda has witnessed a rapid expansion of mobile telephony connectivity. To date, our modest achievements in the ICT sector have impacted posi-tively on the economy by creating direct and indirect socio economic benefits to our people. The critical issue now is for us to build on these achievements in the communications sector so as to The government of Uganda is extremely grateful to the government of Mexico for hosting the Plenipotentiary 208