 It's 150 years of achievement in a sense of bringing aid to people in need, supporting them in the most difficult situations of war and armed violence. It started as a Swiss association with barely a handful of members and it has grown into still a Swiss organization but with 13,000 employees active in 92 countries engaging within the Red Cross and Red Crescent movement in many more countries, together with the national societies of those countries. It has become multinational, 146 nations represented in the staff of the organization, so it has evolved considerably and in particular over the last 20 years. There is the symbolic of the number and the symbolic of the number encourages us to look forward and to ask ourselves, do we do the right thing? What is the environment in which we are operating today? How can we overcome some of the obstacles and difficulties we encounter? What do we learn from the past? How can we do better? So it's first and foremost an occasion to look into the future.