>>mokhtar: the ties are very strong. the, indeed you referred to our consortium at medini in iskandar, which isan investment that will translate, or is being translated into a gross development value of more than 15 billion us dollars. at the same time we are putting more or less the amount of 150 millions us dollars or about 4.25% or thereabouts of islamic private equity fund called fajr capital, with theview of investing in the gulf and the islamic world and using islamic finance vehicles. and indeed this is a trend that i think we have been participating in both in islamic finance as well as the socalled new silk road, as well as the spice route the whole indian ocean strategy and this is all part of our natural footprint if you like. >>sager: its interesting, decoupling 1.0 was quickly discredited but i think as this crisis has shown, that now you know, seeing the economic gravity shift to the east asian pacific, is decoupling 2.0, is thata reality? is that a real prospect now? >>mokhtar: i thk quite clearly, the gro