hello everyone my name is robotsko I'm the president-elect and the General Secretary of eskimed and it's my really great pleasure to invite all of you today for the first meeting where we investment together with the global leaders Global AMR is having this Symposium where we are forging Partnerships between policy makers and scientists so aor is also called The Silent pandemic very few people outside of the Science World and also now in the policy world really acknowledge how big a problem AMR is doing so a recent study actually showed that more than 1.2 million people dies directly caused of antimicrobial resistance bacteria every year this is actually as many as who dies from both HIV and malaria so we really are facing a worldwide pandemic today say that people really do not recognize so the reason we find this meeting so important is that in order really to mitigate AMR we really do need that both scientists and policy makers meet and discuss this item together in order to find common solutions for this problem I really hope that this meeting here will build on all the Partnerships that is already ongoing but what we really need now is a much tighter collaborations between scientists and policy makers the really great thing about this meeting is that we have been able to really get a lot of different stakeholders together so we are having policy makers politicians and scientists from all around the world participating in this meeting