Npcdinner. Remember the public attends our dinner. Applause of evidence is not evidence of a lack of journalistic objectivity. After our grests speech we will have a question and answer period. I will ask as many questions as time permits. Our head table includes guests of our speaker and also working journalists who are club members. Let me introduce them to you now. I ask each foreign stand briefly as names are announced. From the audiences right, baha altawil, correspondent for egypts on tv network. Kathy bank a nebraska of the a member of the npc Journalism Institute board. Rachel oswald, writer for roll call. Wuhan bo, undersecretary ed hes been on the job since 2007. Hes the eighth person to hold this pest. During bans tenure, the u. N. Has responded to the crisis in darfur, the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, the effects of global warming, and terrorism. Ban also faces challenges such as water shortages worldwide. The Ebola Outbreak in western africa and civil conf