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It is a great honour and privilege for me to welcome you all at the HQ of the AUC for this 19th annual meeting of the Committee of Directors-General of National Statistical Offices. I am delighted to see so many of you gathered here today, demonstrating your continued commitment to the development of statistics in Africa.

Let me begin by extending a warm welcome to the Deputy Prime Minister of Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, H.E. Temesgen Tiruneh, and all African Directors-General of the NSOs, the custodians of official statistics on our continent.

Excellencies, Heads of State and Government of the Member States of the African Union and the European Union;

Excellency António Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations;

Excellency Mahmoud Ali Youssouf, Chairperson of the African Union Commission;

Excellency Ursula Van der Leyen, President of the European Commission;

Excellency António Costa, President of the European Council;

Excellencies, Heads of Delegations;