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Thank you very much.

It is now my great pleasure to call on stage Mr.

Rafael Mariano Grossi,

Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency IAEA. Ladies and gentlemen, good morning.

President Emmanuel after this very clear and comprehensive outline given by the President,

there's really very little to add, except perhaps.

From the perspective of your International Atomic Energy Agency,

maybe we can sketch out some of the development areas that were outlined by Emmanuel Macron agree that the conditions out there all point in the direction of integrating fully. Nuclear energy in our energy mixes.

This doesn't mean that nuclear energy is going to be the dominating factor,

not at all, not at all.

What we are aiming at, as the President said, is intelligent,

integrated energy systems that are going to be what we need.

In these, days, it could be development, it could be electrification, it could be digitalization, it could be, artificial intelligence, and in all these sectors,

it is obvious that we are going to be needing answers,

answers that are predictable, answers that are reliable, and nuclear energy is there. But i nova papai concise spontanema.

There are a number of obstacles in our way that we must overcome,

and I think that they were just mentioned.

It's interesting to think about how we can overcome them.

What do we need to achieve this now? We began this common reflection.

At the first nuclear summit that was held in Brussels with you, Prime Minister, so back in 2024, that's where this path of reflection began, and I think, you know,

there are a number of important dates that are out there to remind us of the sometimes difficult events that stand as milestones on the path that has brought us today here in Paris.

There are, there is a combination of issues, problems around the world.

In 2024, the war between Russia and Ukraine was already ongoing conflict, of course,

with the dramatic situation around the Sapoliza nuclear power plant,

but also, also and so importantly, to think that today. It is nuclear energy that is sustaining.

Your country, 70% of the energy that is sustaining Ukraine is nuclear energy.

So when we say, when we say predictability, when we say reliability,

we know what we are talking about and naturally there's a renewed debate.

About nuclear security, that debate was not prevalent a few years ago, but it is now fueled by the instability that we see,

and that is why you European, Asian, African, Latin American decision makers,

you are focusing your thinking on the benefits of nuclear energy.

Not only from the political or geostrategic point of view but also from the technical technology point of view.

With nuclear energy, countries can be provided with a stable source of energy.

Of course there is dependency on other sources of energy,

but nuclear provides sovereignty or independence that so many countries in this beautiful continent of Europe,

especially in Central and Eastern Europe, are doubling down.

For those that had nuclear and for those that didn't have nuclear walking in that direction because it is obvious that this is an alternative that is giving this and of course.

Challenges that preexisted and are not specifically political but technological, environmental, related to climate change or global warming,

in whichever form you want to address the problem exists there.

So in this convergence of These challenges out there.

Clearly there is a space for nuclear, but as I was saying,

we need to see what the problems are, where they are. So we talked about standardization. Indeed, the path is long.

There's a lot of work to do and industry.

Cannot flourish,

cannot develop if you have to revise and review your project every time.

An industry cannot grow when there are no there are no standards are going to hear that we should loosen our safety and security requirements,

not at all, but we have to work closer together.

We have to work in a way that doesn't take 4 or 5 years to license a nuclear power plant,

which business can work like that,

but we are in that direction and I'm confident that progress is being made in this important area.

But of course, That is not all, and I think the issue of financing,

and I'm very happy that in the programming of this meeting we have decided to look and to take the bull by the horns when it comes to financing. It was not only Man.

It wasn't just here in Europe, it was everywhere financing nuclear was forbidden.

As if it was some criminal activity, it was like that, last year, and by not coincidence, and I'm very happy that it was here,

I signed an historic agreement with Ajay Banga, the president of the World Bank here in Paris in the offices of the show,

Joli coincidence CC Ari, and it was here. What a coincidence here in Paris.

After that, immediately, immediately things started to change.

We see now EBRD has been mentioned, we have signed also in Manila an important agreement with the Asian Development Bank.

We have signed with the Latin American Development Bank CAF,

we are working with the African Development Bank so that this phenomenon, which is per se a global phenomenon.

Can have the instruments that are needed to make it,

to make it happen because it's about that, after all, it's about that.

You finished, Emmanuel, your words and I'm finishing here, evoking this issue of the future.

And the future that we need to Build together. And I thought.

Back to something I read in French many years ago a work by Antoine de Saint-Exupery which I read so many years ago but is read throughout the world,

and he said the future you should not foresee or predict the future,

you should write it to make it possible and here today in Paris we are doing just that.

Thank you very much.