Thank you for the opportunity to speak to you today.
My opening statement focuses on the situation in the Tigray region of Ethiopia.
During the two-year war, from November 2020 to November 2022, in the Tigray region of Ethiopia, about one million civilians have been killed; more than 120,000 women have been raped; about two million people have been internally displaced, and more than 100,000 persons have been externally displaced.
Socio-economic infrastructure, including health facilities and educational institutions, factories—