 Today is Wednesday, the 5th of December, and it's mid-week through the second week of the high-level session of COP 18 in Doha. Various high-level roundtables have been going on in discussions. The negotiating text has gone to the ministers. A few selected ministers by the Qatar presidency have been asked to mediate some of the still stuck negotiating text. We're still waiting for the loss in damage, and in particular the finance to be sorted out. Various countries have been announcing various amounts of money for the 2013 onwards financial commitments, but they simply don't add up to very much yet. Remains to be seen if that will happen. I'm going to report now on a very happy event for the first time since the beginning of the least developed countries group with which I've been working for many years. The group has pre-selected before the end of the COP, before the end of the tenure of the existing chair, the next chair. This was done some time ago. The current chair, Paus Manjarju from the Gambia, is going to hand over at the end of this COP from the beginning of January to Nepal. But the good thing is that Nepal had selected their incoming chair some time ago. He has attended several sessions now. He's been attending the entire COP along with the current chair being inducted. And this afternoon, there was for the first time a handing over ceremony from the previous chair to the next chair with the ministers of the Gambia and Nepal present and all the LDC group. And many of the supporting organizations that have supported the LDCs for many years including IID, CDK, LRI, Oxfam, CAN and many others. It was a very nice occasion. We gave a gift to Paus Manjarju. He was very emotional on the occasion. He certainly made a great difference to the group and we are expecting Nepal to do the same. A suggestion came from the floor that the group invite Paus Manjarju to become a special envoy for the group. He did not remain as chair but have this designation and have requested the government of Gambia to consider appointing him as such. At the same time, the group also considered whether or not it's time for them to have a female chair and the thinking has started about identifying and then potentially appointing a female chair at the end of the term of the current chair from Nepal, Mr. Prakash Mathema. In the evening, the incoming chair, Nepal, gave a reception for all the LDCs. So it was a very nice occasion for everybody to celebrate this ending over.