Through enhanced multi-agency collaboration, we helped strengthen health and education services, expand social protection, agricultural practices and supply chains, and boost entrepreneurship, particularly for young people and women. Today the United States of America and the Republic of Gabon commemorate sixty-four years of diplomatic relations between our two countries and declare our intent to elevate our partnership. Through this visit, the United States is seeking to strengthen and elevate our. Leading the UN Country Team as the most senior UN official in the country and representative of the UN Secretary-General on development, during such a pivotal moment in the nation's history, I have strived to ensure that we, as the UN, effectively support Gabon's aspirations to deliver durable. The United States and Gabon have embarked on a new chapter in their longstanding partnership, marked by the visit of Gabon's Transition President Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema to the United States on October 3, 2024. This visit reaffirms a 64-year relationship built on cooperation and mutual. The United States and Gabon reaffirmed their commitment to deepening commercial and economic ties, advancing infrastructure, and pursuing security cooperation during a meeting between Deputy Secretary of State Landau and President Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema in Libreville, Gabon. Transition President Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema.