In our event entitled «The Indo-Pacific – Ports, Pearls and Four Major Players» Philippe Welti, former Ambassador to India und Daniel Woker, former Ambassador to Australia, have given us an assessment of the meaning of the 'free and open Indo-Pacific' concept for the countries involved and the region as a whole. Both of them have spent much of their work life in Asia, being together deployed in Iran, Singapore, Kuwait, Australia and India.