...Ladies and gentlemen, dear shareholders, I should like to open our extraordinary AGM of thyssenkrupp AG and (inaudible). I am the Chairman of the Supervisory Board, and in this function I'm also leading this simply here. I should like to welcome you to our extraordinary meeting. On the basis of chapter 17, section 2 of our words, we declared to have this extraordinary meeting as a virtual AGM and without the physical presence, with the exception of those that have the proxy for voting rights in here. Why have we decided to do it here in this virtual format? The Supervisory Board and the members of the Board carefully considered all fundamentals. First of all, it was the first positive experience made with the virtual annual general meetings and on January 31 there was also a mention made of having a virtual general meeting and there was 94% of the capital was in approval. Both underpins that virtual general meetings are also reliable and excellent basis for such activities. The fact that...
