...Shareholders, ladies and gentlemen, I welcome you to the 29th Annual General Meeting of Novartis AG. And I'm delighted to be able to greet a large number of shareholders here at St. Jakobshalle in Basel. I also welcome the members of the Board. Present Giovanni Caforio, the candidate for the Chair of the Board of Directors; Elizabeth McNally, the candidate for the Board of Directors, and the members of the Executive Committee present here today. We also have the representatives of our auditors KPMG AG, Notary, Andrea Schmutz; and the Independent Proxy, Peter Andreas Zahn. I appoint Charlotte Pamer, Secretary of the Board of Directors, as keeper of the minutes. I appoint the following persons as tellers, Martin Kesselring, UBS; Olga Nieto, Citibank; and [Alexandra Scriber R Sergeant Bank]. Today's Annual General Meeting was called after publication of the complete agenda. This was done by publication on February 6, 2025, in the Swiss Trade Gazette number 25. Unless otherwise provided by...