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Excellences, Distinguished Delegates, Ladies and Gentlemen,
It gives me great pleasure to extend to you all a very warm welcome on behalf of the Chairperson of the African Union Commission, H.E. Dr. Nkosazana DlaminZuma and on my behalf to this important event on the Great Green Wall for the Sahara and Sahel Initiative, on the margins of the 21st Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. Let me sincerely thank the Government and People of the Republic of France, for being such wonderful host despite all odds.

- Honourable Dr. Khaled Fahmy, Minister, Ministry of Environmental Affairs, Arab Republic of Egypt and President of African Ministerial Conference of Environment (AMCEN)
- Your Excellences, Members of the Bureau and Honourable Ministers of the African Ministerial Conference on Environment (AMCEN)
- Your Excellency Dr. Achim Steiner, Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
- Prof. Anthony Nyong, representative of the President of the African Development Bank

Your Excellency President Paul Kagame, Our Gracious Host
Your Excellency, the Chair of the African Union Permanent Representative Com-mittee, Amb. Albert Chimindi
Members of the PRC Bureau,
Excellency’s, Heads of the African Governance Architecture Platform
Colleagues from the African Union Commission, AU organs and RECs