 I think it's important to note at the outset that the threat of chemical terrorism remains as real and as relevant today as it has ever been. We continue to see adversaries around the globe seeking out, acquiring and using in attacks a wide variety of chemicals to include explosives precursor chemicals. We continue to see adversaries targeting chemical facilities around the globe. I think the threat is made even more concerning by the continuing influx of fighters returning from the battlefields of Iraq and Syria by the proliferation of information about the development of chemical devices online, the inspiration worldwide of bad actors who may be seeking to use chemicals maliciously. So I think more important now than it has ever been that we come together as a truly unified chemical security community to share information, best practices, and lessons we've all learned to combat this chemical terrorism threat. So I think this global congress on chemical security and emerging threats is a really important step to ensure that we are able to effectively share information across our community, a community that as you note includes a wide variety of disciplines from law enforcement to regulators to military to chemical weapons, non-proliferation experts to the chemical chemical industry folks who are on the front lines of securing chemical supply chains and chemical facilities. So I think to the extent that we can bring together a true global community of actual expert chemical security practitioners we will be we will be making some very very important strides to ensuring the continuing sharing of of information across across our community information that will be critical to enabling us to sort of stay ahead of the ever ever evolving threat curve. I think it's important now more than ever to form a global chemical security community because the threat is evolving at a rate of speed the likes of which we have not seen in the in the past. We have technology coming into play. We have evolving threat vectors such as unmanned aircraft systems, drones. We have concerns about the attacks on cyber systems at chemical facilities so an area of concern we have strived to address in the United States through among other things our chemical facility anti-terrorism standards program and as mentioned previously you know the proliferation of information about about attack tactics techniques and procedures that is available so widely through through technology via the the internet and and otherwise. I think the next step for for building our community and the next step for this global congress is to make it make our network make our community bigger and and better and to ensure that we are reaching across all relevant aspects of that of that community and it is a diverse community. It's for that reason that in my role as a co-chair of the global partnerships of the G7 Global Partnerships Chemical Security Working Group we have strived to identify initiatives to bring the community together to to bring together actual expert practitioners in the chemical security arena to identify opportunities to to convene these experts to to share in to enable them to share information across the the community and I think the global congress as I said in my remarks this morning really hits the mark on all of those fronts so while it's important that we have diplomats and policymakers at the table important in terms of building political support for chemical terrorism anti-terrorism activities it is very important as well that expert practitioners in chemical security are talking directly to one another sharing your information directly with one another and that's exactly what this global congress does so more better bigger in the future.