It is indeed a great pleasure to be here again this year at the KEBE awards ceremony for distinguished entrepreneurs.
And I am particularly happy because I am among the people who, in the difficult times that this country went through, within the framework of an economic policy, a fiscal policy that we followed, giving incentives, encouraging, responded fully, so that we could deal with the crisis of 2013, the pandemic crisis, the current crisis that we are facing, to the extent that this country today has a growth rate of 6%, and this is not due to the Government. It is due to business, it is due to all of you, it is due to your initiatives, it is due to your leadership.
And it is for this reason that I feel particularly honored to express to the honoree, to all those who have been honored, to all those who have been nominated for the award, but to focus my attention on a visionary man who through his diverse action and contribution has managed to inspire, to create his own perspectives or those of entrepreneurs more broadly, and we are talking about none other than my friend Phidias Pelidis, who not coincidentally has been at the top of important organisations such as PwC, KEBE, the Association of Chartered Accountants, Invest Cyprus, the Gaming and Casino Regulatory Authority and the Technical Committee for Economic and Business Issues, among others, to name the few I could mention.
My dear Phidias, I believe that tonight's honour is fully deserved, both to you and to the others who have been awarded and those who contribute to the existence of this business community, this booming economy, this otherwise exemplary general economic situation of the country.
I would like to warmly congratulate you. You leave a worthy successor, Natasha is an executive who is worthy of succession and I wish you and everyone and Natasha all the best.
Again, I congratulate you for your contribution to the prosperity of our country.
(PM/IK)
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