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Good morning everybody, Minister Singh, Mr. Secretary, ladies and gentlemen.

I'm very happy to be here with you today.

I want to thank our co-organisers for this forum, it's a great follow-on from our solar event yesterday. This is the first edition of the EU-India Green Hydrogen Forum, which I hope will be the first of many and a milestone in the development of a strong cooperation on green hydrogen between EU and India.

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