 First of all, I'd like to welcome all of the ambassadors and our diplomatic colleagues from member states as well as the observers and the representatives of international organizations, the members of civil society. And I'm also pleased to confirm that all credentials are in order and suggest that the council take note of this. First of all, I'd like to express our sincere and deep thanks to all the members of the organization for allowing us to be part of the main and central organization of the OEM. This four-year cycle, this four-year mandate, fills us with pride. It's coming to an end today. We have assumed it with our minds the idea that migration is a necessary factor for sustainable development and that shows the commitment of the Chilean for a peaceful world and the benefit to all of us by our participation at the council table. We hope to have contributed a lot from our region to the growing and strengthening of this organization, which is our organization at a key moment in the evolution of international migration. Personally, it has been a real honour for me to be able to exercise this mandate by the general council to complete the mandate of Marta Maoras, who started this mandate. I'm sure you all remember her very well. Our mandate was set up in a year marked by important events in the field of migration. Among other things, the process that has not yet come to a good end, the adoption of a global pact for a regular and regular migration, especially with the meeting of Puerto Vallarta and the negotiations cycles of New York that have followed up to a definitive text project that we hope will be adopted by the very large majority in the coming weeks. These stages of the process have taken place outside Geneva, but the Council of the IEM and all its administration have redoubled efforts to continue to establish the link between this pact and Geneva, being aware of the central importance that this capital and the multilateral axis have around this pact. There have been many occasions where we were able to exchange ideas with the facilitators of the process and with the special representative of the General Secretary, Mrs. Luisa Arbor and her team, by expressing our point of view of the life of those who work day-to-day with the United Nations Organization dedicated exclusively to migration, by addressing these migrations in all its complexity and all its facets. I am convinced that these exchanges have contributed in a constructive way to the process and that these contributions are also responsible for the central role that the role has given to the IEM. Knowing that, in 2018, our will was to always keep a good communication between Geneva, New York and the capital, so that, in parallel with the meetings organized with those who manage the process on a daily basis, the Council has tried to use the working groups as information spaces to pay attention to delegations on the evolution of things in New York and as an exchange of ideas between delegations as negotiations progress. These working spaces of great value have been useful, they have been flexible and I hope that they will remain the anchor point so that the organization can take on new responsibilities, which will of course lead to great challenges, but challenges that we all have to overcome together in a responsible way. 2018 was a big change within the organization as well. The second mandate, the Ambassador Swing, after 10 years at the head of the IEM, has come to an end in virtue of the current practice of international organizations and with the transparency that characterizes our organization, we have thus launched the first interactive dialogue with the candidates for the general direction of the IEM, which allowed us to know better the vision and the ideas of each of them in a simple way, I hope that this initiative will mark a precedent and will be refined to become an usual practice of the election to come from the general director of the IEM. A few weeks before the Intergovernmental meeting of Marrakech, the IEM is in good shape and well prepared to raise the challenges that are drawing in. In this sense I would like to thank the administration of the excellent work that has been done in recognizing particularly the work done by the former general director, Dr. Leslie Swing and the general director, Laura Thompson. Tomorrow, I would like to wish a lot of success in the task that he accepted to assume. A few months ago, our new general director, Mr. Vittorino, and I would like to wish a lot of success to my successor. I am sure that his abilities and his energy will be very useful in the work that will ask us without any doubt, a lot of energy for the year that comes. Thank you.