 A stolen asset recovery initiative or STAR is a partnership between the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and the World Bank. We are working with a growing number of multilateral organizations at regional and global level to foster greater cooperation on cases, policy and general approaches to asset recovery. Interpol is indeed a very important partner. Together we run the global focal point network on asset recovery since 2009. The network has steadily grown over the past nine years of its existence and has become an important place, a forum for practitioners, asset recovery practitioners from around the globe to get together to learn about new developments, exchange information and knowledge but also very importantly to discuss cases. We always have a number of bilateral meetings happening on the sideline of the global focal point network where there are opportunities for actual exchange on cases among these countries. This is the first time that the conference happens actually in the Americas and this was quite remarkable in that it could bring a bigger number of countries from the American region, from South America, Latin America and Central America to the meeting. So this was quite positive. We also had a session on the synergies between investigative journalism and investigations into asset recovery. So it has been actually quite an interesting meeting. We certainly hope that this kind of network will contribute to better cooperation in the area of asset recovery. It has already created a sense of community among those practitioners, the focal points, who come back to these meetings and find it easier than to reach out to each other to seek cooperation in the area of asset recovery.