"We recently appointed a woman CEO, Dominique Leroy, even though this was not imposed by a quota. We now wish to appoint as directors two highly qualified, principled women with relevant experience. With the proposal to appoint Agnès Touraine and Catherine Vandenborre, we show that the Board of Directors of Belgacom wants to go further than the gender diversity standard as regards reserving one-third of mandates on Boards of Directors for women. With 50% we go one better, and we do this because we believe that social diversity should be reflected in all echelons of the company. I would also like to emphatically thank Pierre-Alain De Smedt and Oren G. Shaffer for their years of dedicated service on the Board of Directors. They contributed their experience in an exemplary manner.

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