 To 112. Council meeting mark almost to the day, the 70th anniversary of our organization. On December 5, 1951, the International Migration Conference was convened in Brussels. The 19 countries in attendance decided to found the organization that is today IOM. In taking this step, the 19 founding states gave hope to andrids of thousands of Europeans suffering in the aftermath of the Second World War. IOM's origins were therefore fairly modest. It was a committee with a temporary mandate and operations were limited to a single continent. Over a quarter of a century later in 1980, the council decided to change the organization's name to the Intergovernmental Committee for Migration, ICM, in recognition of the organization's increasingly global role, in particular in Latin America and also in Southeast Asia. By this time, ISEM had already assisted 3 million migrants and provided services in numerous other areas. Finally, in 1989, ICM became the International Organization for Migration, IOM. And now both a nearly universal membership, constant growth in its scope of work and size of operations, and of course, the crucial landmark of entering into the United Nations system in 2016 as a related agency. Today, IOM is a global organization, focused exclusively on migration. IOM works in close partnership with you, our member states, the United Nations and other intergovernmental agencies, international and national non-governmental organizations and research and academic institutions worldwide. In line with the growing importance of migration and of displacement in general, the adoption of the global compact for safe orderly and regular migration in 2018 has been definitely a watershed moment in this regard. Then as now, IOM has sought to accompany the international community in its deliberations, while remaining as close to the people it serves as possible, on the ground, in the field. This journey has been possible thanks to the engagement, commitment and professionalism of all IOM colleagues, past and present to whom I wish to pay a very sincere and heartfelt tribute today. It is my great honor to carry the legacy of my predecessors, as well as that of the thousands of IOMers who have dedicated their lives to the noble values mission and mandate of IOM over the past 70 years. Yes, looking forward to the next 70. Thank you.