 And to the second part of this, and thank both of you for your patience in waiting on this segment to end. We have two distinguished panelists with us this morning. I will introduce them in the order in which the arrived spin came up very early this morning, but thank you for that. Mr. Ambassador, has been accolage, has, is the current executive secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, former Minister of Foreign Affairs for Bosnia and Herzegovina. It has also had a distinguished career as ambassador in many other places, including ambassador to the United States, ambassador to the Organization of American States, has been ambassador in a number of other countries, ambassador to Belgium, and concurrently ambassador to the North Atlantic Treaty organization NATO, comes also with a long outstanding record in senior executive positions in the private sector in various parts of the world. And we're delighted to have you with us this morning and will come to you in just a moment after I do a brief introduction to the Global Migration Group. Mr. Accolage represents the regional commissions of the United Nations, which had the chair in the first half of this year, and with whom we worked extremely closely, almost like in a common agenda. Also honored and delighted to have Mr. Guy Ryder, the Director General of ILO, who I always call our next door neighbor. We see a lot of one another either here or in airports, but we're delighted to have you serve with us. He is the former General Secretary of the ITUC, the International Trade Union Federation, long distinguished career there, as well as a long and distinguished career with the International Labor Organization. He took up this position only last year, became the Director in September of, sorry, 2012, I guess it was. I want to just segue briefly. We're so pleased that you're both here with us and can give us time. I know that you're both on tight schedule and we'll get you out of here as soon as this is over. We would love to have kept you a bit longer, but let me just go into a very brief PowerPoint presentation. The dreaded PowerPoint, but I apologize, but I want to give our Member States a bit of background. The first slide I wanted to welcome you all this morning in my capacity, not as Director General of IOM, but rather as the current Chair of the Global Migration Group. I've already, we've had a very good conversation with Director General Guy Ryder as how we're going to fully support the IOLO chairmanship, which will be the first time that the GMG has a chair for an entire year and an entire year agenda. So we're going to do everything possible to try to support you in that. It's become somewhat of a tradition here at IOM that we have a GMG meeting of some sort. Today it's focused on the Troika, the previous chair, the present chair, and the future chair. And we have a number of other members, UNDP just spoke up earlier. We have a number of other members of the GMG of the 16 agencies here this morning who will be asked to contribute also. But I think that I'd like to also recognize the other representatives here. It's come to my attention that the acronym GMG stands for some of you for the Global Mystery Group rather than Global Migration Group. I hope this was said in jest by some of you, but I think it does point to a larger issue that we need to be much better known and known for results, and I'm satisfied that we're going to get that. The main purpose of this session, therefore, is to demystify and demythologize the work of the Global Migration Group and therefore to heed the call and the declaration which was adopted at the high level dialogue to make room for regular interaction between the member states and GMG, and it is in that spirit that we are now having this session today. I hope that your own views and reflections will help us in the GMG to take stock of the outcomes of the high level dialogue and the role that the GMG can play in the future. As many of you know, this was an original initiative by one of our other traditional partners, UNHCR and IOM. It was subsequently became the Geneva Migration Group in 2003. That consisted of the ILO, IOM, OHCHR, UNTAD, UNHCR, and the UNODC. And then in response to a recommendation by the Global Commission on International Migration, the then Secretary General, Mr. Kofi Annan, recommended that the Geneva Migration Group become the Global Migration Group and at that point others were added, UN Department of Economic Social Affairs, UNDP, UNFPA, and the World Bank. And numerous other partners have joined over the years and in 2010 we reached our current membership of 16 agencies and there is at least, this is when WHO and UN Women joined, and there is at least one active application now for a 17th member that will be under consideration by the new chair of the GMG. Our main objectives you've seen there are to promote the wider application of all the relevant instruments and norms relating to migration, promoting coherent, comprehensive and coordinated approaches to migration. And a short summary of the GMG work from 2006 to 2013 is available at the back of the room on the display tables there. We will take advantage of my own prerogative as chair by doing this brief overview of our work in the last few months as GMG chair. And let me just say one thing on the internal review that is taking place in IOM of GMG. We want to use this opportunity to announce that IOM has nominated an experienced staff member who knows the GMG very well and she will be working full time in Geneva for the newly created GMG support unit together with a part-time colleague from UNDESA in New York. As far as our own chairmanship, we did what we could and we have I think a few modest accomplishments to point to in our time. One of these was the mandate from the UN Chiefs Executives Board to begin a process of putting together proposed recommendations and outcomes for the high level dialogue. We did this in partnership with UNFPA. We coordinated the process together with other members of the GMG and the CEB, the Special Rapporteur on Human Rights of Migrants, the SRSG Mr. Peter Sutherland, and the NGO Committee on Migration. Dr. Babatunda Osta-Mahan, the Executive Director of UNFPA and I presented these recommendations in Madrid on the 5th of April to the Chief Executives Board. We used these in part in the Secretary General's report on International Migration Development, which ended with his eight-point action plan. The work that went into the recommendation was later turned into the volume that you see on the screen, copies of which are available at the back of the room on the display tables. And if we run out of copies, we have more in our library, which we can get to you. We tried also to contribute to the outcomes by issuing a GMG position paper, which I presented then in summary form at the high level dialogue in the plenary. We also, the GMG, we shared the chair with Mr. Ryder in New York, at which the Secretary General spoke and stayed with us for a good part of the session, a side event about the high level dialogue, and mentioning the involvement of nearly all GMG members at that time. We, like John Bingham of the ICMC, we were pleased to see the high degree of convergence between the HLD Declaration, the SG's eight-point plan, the GMG's recommendations, et cetera, and the Civil Society's eight-point five-year plan. The declaration of the high level dialogue mentions the global migration group in a number of places. Above all, it increases, it stresses the importance of a regular interaction between the GMG and member states, the priority which I placed high on my list for the IOM chairmanship. Finally, the Secretary General has encouraged the group to consider the eight-point agenda for action when moving ahead, and we have deliberated already at the working level to see how this might be turned into a program of action. Just one more slide, I think. Our own interaction with other processes and actors, coordination with the GMG, the special representative of the Secretary General and the Civil Society, there have been some initial discussions already between SRSG Sutherland, the GFMD chair, and the GMG chair, as called for by the Secretary General. It was decided that the three entities, GMG, GFMD, and the SRSG, would convene every two months to maintain communication and information flow and to report back. This year, the GMG has already contributed collectively to the GFMD through substantive papers on labor migration, diaspora, and migration as enablers for inclusive social development. In addition to the Global Forum, we and the GMG have also tried to enhance our outreach to civil society actors and to university scholars, contributing to a forthcoming GMG publication on, quote, adolescence, youth, and migration. We've also tried to link up the GMG with the post-2015 UN development agenda. There we are advocating that migration be included in that future development agenda. We formulated our views and recommendations in a joint paper on migration and post-2015, which is also available at the back of the room. At the high-level dialogue, many member states supported the thought that migration needed to be recognized. This was the spirit of the hearings in New York. And finally, I was able to represent the GMG as chair at the UN General Assembly high-level event on the Millennium Development Goals and the post-2015 development agenda in New York in September. We will also be as a global migration group involved in the session, the sixth session of the Open Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals in December at which I will be taking part in about two weeks in collaboration with the chair of the GFMD and the SRSG. Finally, just a couple of concluding reflections about our interactions. We want to see an action-orientated global migration group with strength and structure and greater interaction with all of you and other partners. We want to add value to the dialogue through interdisciplinary meeting places, multiple perspectives. We want to find more space for information sharing. I think the 16 GMG agencies typify the multifaceted aspects and perspectives of migration and the complexity of the topic, et cetera. The question is, ask whether we are more than the sum of our parts? I think the parts are important and I believe that a diversity of mandates and governance structures and sources of funding means that the GMG has become an effective meeting place and coordination mechanism for information sharing and consensus building. And it takes a lot of time and effort, but I think the time and effort is very worthwhile and I think there's one strong area of consensus of which I'm especially proud and want to highlight and that is our call to think of migration first and foremost in terms of individual persons, individual human beings endowed with dignity and rights. The group has come together since the first high-level dialogue in 2006 in developing a lot of common positions, but we acknowledge that we continue to have a long way to go in ensuring that we are greater than the sum of our parts. So I would now like to move from my presentation to that of our colleagues who've come from busy schedules to be with us today and I would like to begin that session now. If I might, first of all, perhaps I could call on Mr. Sven Alkalaz, the Executive Secretary, and past Chair from January to June to make his presentation. You have the floor.