opening remarks

In her opening remarks on Tuesday, Ms Pelicot said that by giving up her right to a trial behind closed doors she "knew what I was signing up for", although she conceded "today I can feel the tiredness".

“We are on the road to ruin,” Mukhtar Babyaev, president of COP29 said in his opening remarks.

“I think I know everyone in this room, because we are a family from around the world,” Govan said during his opening remarks as guests, including Kim Kardashian, Blake Lively, Laura Dern, Viola Davis, Andrew Garfield and Sarah Paulson, sat down to a dinner of makgeolli jeung-pyeon, japchae and grand cru galbi-jjim created by chef David Shim from Cote, the country’s only Michelin-starred Korean steakhouse.

Within minutes of their opening remarks, their hopes were exploded.

Jurado, who wore a surgical mask because of a recent bout with COVID, used her one-minute opening remarks to say she was happy to return to Dolores Mission, where she had participated in two candidate forums during the primary.