 Thank you very much, Director General, Excellencies, Honorable Grasamachel, Dear Ladies and Gentlemen. I'm delighted to be here today, and I thank the IOM very much for this invitation. I would also like to start with a quote as Sir Peter Sutherland closed his remarks. Migration is an expression of the human aspiration for dignity, safety, and a better future. These words by the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and his remarks to the high-level dialogue on international migration and development in October last year highlight the importance of migration for sustainable development. Sustainable development can only be achieved if we take into account the aspirations of migrants, respect their human rights, and recognize the potential of migration for economic and social development. We've heard it many times before today, but also in the last days. To achieve sustainable development and to ensure life's indignity for all, it is inevitable that migration figures prominently in the post-2015 development agenda. In my interest today I will focus hands on the role migration plays in the post-2015 agenda in the first place, as well as in the parallel discussion on financing for development. But to start with, I would like to share some general observations and thoughts on the post-2015 agenda with you. Firstly, please allow me to take a step back and throw a glance at the Millennium Development Goals, the MDGs. There is no doubt that the MDGs have demonstrated the value of translating a shared vision on development and to create time-bound goals. They put the focus on key challenges and have successfully mobilized global action, as well as respective resources. Yet, as the Director General already mentioned, neither migration has a phenomenon nor migrants as key actors of development in almost all countries around the world have had their deserved place in the MDG framework. Consequently, the current global partnership to implement MDGs lacks an important driver of development. We've heard the most important driver of development, as Peter Sutherland stated. This has to change now with the post-2015 development agenda. For some years, the international community increasingly acknowledges the utmost importance of migration for development. Hence, time has come to do justice to migration, also in the context of a new global framework for sustainable development. The process to define the successive framework of the MDGs and the post-2015 agenda is already well-advanced. As you know, the overworking group on MDGs, in which I represent at Switzerland, produced an ambitious proposal for ASGIS and TARAS. The adoption of this report last July was preceded by 13 sessions over 18 months of intense discussions in which my country took an active role in sharing a seat with France and Germany. Looking back, I would say it was well-versed effort. In my opinion, the report definitely is an important landmark in the process of defining a new global agenda for sustainable development. We actually consider the report of the overworking group the best possible outcome of these complex deliberations and quite difficult negotiations as it balances the interests of most UN member states, I would say. From a Swiss perspective, we are particularly pleased that important issues that have not been sufficiently covered by the MDGs are now anchored in this agenda. Among them, water, gender equality, sexual and reproductive health and rights, sustainable consumption and production, disastrous production, peaceful and safe societies, and obviously migration. At the same time, we must admit that the proposal by the overworking group is not perfect. Of course, there are contents that could be improved. 17 goals, 199 targets are perhaps too many in number, and not all targets are smart, meaning measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bought. However, when assessing the report of the overworking group, we have to do justice to the way this document was elaborated. While the MDGs were produced by the UN based on the Millennium Declaration and therefore never formally negotiated, the proposal of the overworking group is the result of a truly inclusive process, integrating not only the different views of member states, but also the voices of other stakeholders, including civil societies, international organizations such as IOM, academia, local governments, and the private sector. So looking ahead, there are many open questions regarding the process. It is still not clear whether the discussion goals and targets will be resumed, or if the remaining process rather takes focus on other important elements of the post-2015 agenda, such as implementation, monitoring, and drift for other CDs. Like everyone else who closely follows this process, we look forward to the synthesis report now, Secretary General, to be published next week, as well as the outcome of the modality discussions regarding the negotiations next year. In any case, Switzerland will continue to exactly engage with this process. We will further engage to make sure that the ambitious substance of the proposed SDGs, which is there, will not be watered down, and that migration keeps the prominent place or has its prominent place in this goal frame. Ladies and gentlemen, turning our attention now more specifically to the question of migration and its role in the context of the post-2015 agenda, it is worth for us to consider, first, a certain paradox, which I have already shortly touched at the beginning. Migrations has always been a strategy for individuals and their families to overcome poverty, to escape conflicts, to react to economic and environmental shocks, and to strive for a more prosperous future. It has thus always been a driver for global sustainable development. It is only recently that the topic has gained international attention. Peter Sutherland already indicated the development of policy initiatives during the last years, from the BRN initiative and the support to the Global Commission on International Migration, to the continuous commitments to the Global Forum on Migration and Development, as well as the engagement in projects such as the Global Knowledge Partnership on Migration and Development, Nomad. Switzerland has been at the forefront of substantiating the international dialogue on migration and development for many years. The decision taken by my governments already in June 2013 actively promotes the inclusion of migration in the post-2015 agenda as one of the key ambitions in our position. It is therefore a logical continuation of this policy. I would like to mention three key arguments why the important contributions by millions of migrants all over the world to development have to be recognized in the post-2015 development agenda. First and foremost, migration is about people, their human rights and fundamental freedoms. Migration is a human experience and cumulative outcome of individual choices and opportunities or lack thereof. It is about the understandable will of people to overcome adversity and live a life in security and prosperity. Second, migration matters for human development and poverty reduction. Evidence from around the world highlights the fact that remittances, for instance, contribute to the reduction of poverty and stimulate human development. With most migrants moving from a less to a more developed country, they tend to realize large average gains for them and their families, their communities in terms of income as well as in terms of health and education. Third, migration matters for economic growth and job creation, the civic. It is also about transfer of knowledge and technology, about filling critical gaps in labor markets and responding to demographic changes in our society. Migrants promote innovation, create business, help to develop new markets, provide and consume goods, reserves, expand tax bases and support social security schemes in countries with aging populations, so on and so on. So together with a growing coalition of governments, international and civil society organizations as well as academia, we have managed to achieve this remarkable milestone of having migration and the mentioned aspects of migration included in the proposal of the old working group on ICGs. I think it is remarkable actually. At this point, I would like to particularly emphasize and acknowledge the steadfast support by the IOM and persist to be achieved by the special representative of the Secretary General, Sir Peter Sutherland. I don't know if he's still here. There was an uphill battle indeed to get the acknowledgement that the migration is indeed a factor of global sustainable development, worthy including in this agenda. But thanks to you and many other partners, several of whom present here today as well, we've managed to come one important step closer to this shared vision. The final challenge remains to have the substance of the old working group report, including all important aspects of migration adopted by the heads of states at the summit in September 2015. We will therefore continue to participate in and support advocacy events on migration and development. We will also continue to collect evidence from the field to better showcase how migrants contribute to all three dimensions of sustainable development, social, economic and environmental. We look forward to a continuous close cooperation with all of our state partners. So, ladies and gentlemen, to conclude, please let me quickly address the upcoming Third International Conference on Financing and Financing for Development, which will be held in Addis Ababa in July next year. The report by the Intergovernmental Committee of Experts on Sustainable Development Financing has acknowledged that the remittances have a growing impact on sustainable development around the globe. The deliberations leading us towards the Addis Ababa conference give us the unique opportunity to propose policy changes and innovative measures to facilitate the productive use of remittances as private transactions for sustainable development. As governments, we do have the means to promote framework conditions to better support migrants who won't only decide to send back money to their families or invest in their home country, but we do subscribe to the needs to reduce the transfer costs of remittances and actively advocate a respected target in the open music working group. But we also seek the needs to promote innovative thinking. The market could offer micro-savings or investments or insurance products tailored for remittances. The migrants and their families could thereby improve the management of their finances and take advantage of more convenient solutions. We should, for example, consider linking remittances more systematically to certain services. For example, in Senegal, migrants working abroad can pay directly the tuition fees of family members back home. The same could be offered for health services, utility bills, mortgages, or any other services available in the market. But yes, it's not to instrumentalize migrants for the funding of an ambitious and low-sustainable development agenda. But it's knowledge that their private resources are already supporting development, and that we can do much more to make this process cheaper, faster, and more efficient for them. Thank you very much.