 Bismillahirrahmanirrahim. Selamat pagi semua. Terima kasih, Rick, untuk keputusan. Yang berbahagia, Datuk Dr. Sri Subramaniam, Minister of Health Malaysia. Yang berbahagia, Datuk Dr. Lokman Hakim bin Sulaiman, Deputy Director General Public Health, Ministry of Health Malaysia. Yang berbahagia, Datuk Suhaimi bin Abdullah, Director General National Anti-Drug Agency. Mr. John Peter Kools, Chair, Harm Reduction International. Dr. Rick Lines, Executive Director, Harm Reduction International. Yang berbahagia, Prof. Adibah Kamurzaman, Chairman Malaysia AIDS Foundation. Michelle Kajaskin, United Nations Secretary General, Special Envoy on HIV AIDS in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Mrs. Steve Cross, Director Regional Support, Team for Asia and the Pacific UN AIDS. Such a long list I have. Madame Ruth Dreyfus, Commissioner Global AIDS Commission on Drug Policy. Mr. Anand Grover, Commissioner Global Commissioner on Drug Policy. Yang berbahagia, Datin Paduka Zaitun, Datuk Osman. Yaya San Samdabi, Governing Council Member. Representatives of Ministry of Health Malaysia, Anti-Drug Agency, Department of Islamic Development Malaysia. National Government Agencies, Corporating Partners. Distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen. Assalamualaikum to all of you. On behalf of my colleagues in the Malaysian AIDS Council, it gives me great pleasure to welcome all of you to the 24th International Harm Reduction Conference in Kuala Lumpur. Selamat datang, especially to all our foreign guests who have travelled far and wide to be with us at this conference. We are deeply honoured to be the local partner of this International Harm Reduction Conference and this is a recognition from the global harm reduction community of our role in the response to the HIV AIDS epidemic in Malaysia which until now was driven predominantly by the injecting drug users. Indeed it was harm reduction that stem the tide of HIV AIDS in Malaysia with new infections halved in the past decade. And ever since the rollout of harm reduction programmes 10 years ago, close to 50% of the population of people who use drugs in Malaysia have now access to clean needles, to methadone, to HIV testing and treatment referrals. Not to mention the thousands of lives saved and the resulting positive return on investment in healthcare costs. The Malaysian harm reduction, having a bit of problem at the lighting here actually, the Malaysian harm reduction success story speaks for the quality of the leadership of the key actors and national HIV responses. The Ministry of Health in particular was and continues to be responsible in the design implementation development and resourcing of harm reduction services. We are indeed honoured to be in the company of the Minister of Health Malaysia. Thank you, Dr. Subramanian, for taking the time off from your busy schedule to address the conference. I would also like to take this opportunity, young woman, to congratulate you on your appointment as Vice President of the World Health Assembly of the 69th World Health Assembly 2006 in Geneva next year. And I hear it was a unanimous election. So congratulations to you and also to Malaysia. We look forward to your leadership and as Malaysia pursues a bigger goal in the global health arena. Congratulations to Young Bahumat too for winning the Vice President of MIC Anopos. So you have a double victory today, Tan Sri. Adatut Sri. Ladies and gentlemen, while leadership is undeniably the impetus for change, the harm reduction movement would not be where it is today without the dedication, commitment, passion, courage, drive, and resilience of the people behind the scenes. On that note, the Malaysian AIDS Council wishes to acknowledge and commend our partner organisations whose work on the ground has directly impacted the lives of thousands of people and have effectively changed the course of HIV-AIDS epidemic. Our harm reduction is also founded on smart partnerships. Allow me now to thank our local partners and stakeholders for your kind support to this conference. Ministry of Health Malaysia, Malaysian Convention and Exhibition Bureau, OMISEP, Yaya San Saim Dabi, Department of Islamic Development Malaysia, Ojakim, Royal Malaysia Police, National Anti-Drug Agency, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Malaysia Airports Berhat, Immigration, Department of Malaysia, Royal Malaysian Customs Department, Centre of Excellence for Research in AIDS, Australia, the Malaysian Welfare Association of Recovering Drug Users, a class, individual, and many more. Not forgetting, of course, the Royal Julian Hotel who has been very helpful to us. We have an exciting conference ahead for the next few days. We hope you will enjoy the conference and enjoy your stay in Kuala Lumpur. Thank you.