00:00Thank you for the warm welcome and the wonderful weather, and we were together just a few weeks ago in the UAE, and I remember our discussions, we also had an opportunity to welcome you about a year ago in Delhi at the WIC1 Dialogue.
00:20So, you really are a minister who has been very involved in the building of our relationship.
00:30In your current capacity, of course, in 2020, when the COVID was on, there was a very important virtual summit that you did with Prime Minister Modi,
00:39and a lot of the landmarks in our contemporary dialogues were decided on that operation.
00:47So, I do want, first of all, to thank you for your personal support for the relationship, and for the chance to renew our relationship and our discussion.
00:59Before I proceed further, let me also convey our warmest felicitations on the accession to the throne of the Royal Highness.
01:09I look forward to my call on him today, and, you know, we again would, I would like to reiterate the invitation which has been extended today to visit Egypt.
01:25As you rightly noted, we are, we have now 77 years, 78 years from our relationship, and we have come a long way, and for us, we really see Websterberg as a very important partner in itself, but also with the European Union.
01:53And at a very crucial time in the development of our home territory.
01:59So, the influence you have in shaping that larger relationship, the support that you extend, that is something which is of great value to us.
02:10And I will thank you, and I will thank you, and I will thank you, because I know in many ways, you will be very much an advocate of keeping in terms of getting there and everything else.
02:20So, in our own bilateral time in our own, I think, I've already, although we are coming up yesterday, but I could see that we have a very active community here, I will be meeting the community later than me.
02:36But, other than, you know, a very solid trade accounts that we have, I think many of the interesting issues of our times, FinTech, space, the entire digital world, AI, these are all issues where I think we can collaborate much more properly than we've done.
02:58So, I look forward to that. So, I look forward today to our meeting, to our discussions. I think the state of the world is also particularly interested at this time. So, I'm sure we both profit from a very open discussion on that.
03:15So, I know that we won't hold back on that score. So, thank you once again for the moment.
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