these concerns therefore, there has been no change in con my conviction that it's necessary at asia spask at the end of this week, there are signatories tpp 1 will be convened. i look forward to advances in the discussion, with regard to the united states last month, vice president pence held the first japan u.s. economic dialogue and agreed to continue the consultation on the strategy on trade and investment rules and issues. not only shall we accelerate in rain forest of the flow and trade investment between japan and the u.s., we aspire to disseminate fair rules to act asia pacific by japan and u.s. lastly, i'll talk about the future going forward. you may be skeptic about the future of this country with birthrate declining and population reaching, is this country all right? so far it was a taboo, but my government has decided to target a birthrate of 1.8 by the early 2020s and child care services are being expanded. we shall harness our people to be equipped with production skill in order to improve results. we're coming expertise and -- it went above 1 million for the first time last