 Good morning everybody. Well, welcome to the final day of the IOM Council. And as in previous IOM Councils, one of the really special events is the presentation of the migrant voices. In IOM we've been particularly concerned about the perception of migrants for some time. And this year it's become particularly difficult and toxic, shall we say. We've seen anti-migrant hostility and violence increasing. One of the things that we're particularly concerned about is changing the perception of migrants in a positive way. So in response to the growing concern and alarm indeed about negative perceptions of migration, xenophobia against migration, in particular xenophobia and hate speech in the digital space. So it's a place where we think we need to communicate far more effectively with people. That the image that comes into somebody's mind is not a negative image, but more a variegated image which shows the full layered meaning of migration in all its ways. And so the campaign basically looks at the point of view that in any large crowd, here we have Grand Central Terminal in New York, there would be a huge and disproportionate number probably of migrants. And the migrants, of course, come from all over the world and we want to make the point very strongly that every country has people that it is inordinately proud of. And some of them I'll be introducing you to in a few minutes. And every country knows the story of its migrants, of its diaspora, whether it's through regular or irregular channels, it doesn't actually matter, and have done well and are doing their country proud in return. For the migrants panel, we have two fantastic guests and we hope for a lively discussion with you all. So to my right, I have the Burundian singer, Kajanin. Burundi is going through a very difficult time at the moment and Madame Nin has been an extraordinary voice for moderation and toleration in her country. She was born in Burundi, is the youngest of a family of eight. She has an exceptional singing voice, although she insists that she's in retirement at the moment. Thank you so much. Thank you very much. I am an artist at the retreat, it's true. I am Burundian, it's true too. I was also a ambassador of the UNICEF for 15 years. I was also a ambassador of the ACP Observatory on Migration. This is when I was lucky enough to meet the Swing ambassador that I began by thanking and inviting me. It's an honor for me to be here and to represent these volunteer migrants who then also contribute to enlarge the countries of the North. So, migration. Human migration is defined as a movement of the place of life of an individual. It's a phenomenon as ancient as humanity itself. Today, in the camps, in the deserts, in the seas, millions of people are circling, because they are in their countries. The causes of the exodus are multiple, but the consequences are always the same. They are chased by violence, by wars, by droughts, by floods. They find themselves on the roads, alone, humiliated, with, as a single luggage, hope. When wars and poverty, inequalities or climate change reverse irreversibly the means of subsistence, the ones who leave the villages for the cities, and the others who leave the cities to throw themselves at the sea. I was born in Gitega and grew up in Bujumbura, which is our capital. At 16, with the blessing of my mother, I left home. I went to study in Kinshasa. First migration. In Kinshasa, I met the one who had to become my husband. That was long before Jacky X. Because we have rights to several things. But I'm not wrong, unfortunately. In Kinshasa, I met my husband. A Belgian, a migrant. We went to live in the heart of the Ecuadorian forest of Littouris, in the north-east of what was called the Zaïr era and the RDC today. We had a little hostel that was very appreciated by travelers and tourists from the region. I gave birth to my son in a small hospital, located 60 km from here, near Bounia. I was 19 years old. The gynecologist who accompanied me was American, and the wise woman was Swiss. Two migrants. Our closest neighbours were the pygmies, the pygmies in my shop. It's one of the many people who live in the Bacongo forest. But the pygmies and the pygmies were also forced to leave their place of living. The intensive forestry, the agriculture on a large scale, the wars, and the treasures left in their basement, were hunted down. They live today in an extreme poverty state, often in wild encampments at the limit of the territories that were once theirs, and others leave to get lost in the city. Following the definition, the pygmies and the pygmies are also migrants today. There are some everywhere. I was very happy in the middle of the little trees and trees, and the rootaxe that was connected to the pygmies became impractical. It was a succession of enormous criteria. So, no more roads, no more travelers, no more work, no more work, just like the start. In 1980, we left the forest for Belgium. Third migration. So, second migration. This debate that was supposed to be temporary, we were there just to find a job and go back to Africa, somewhere in the villages or in the places we went back to, but life decided otherwise. In 1980, when we arrived, I first lost my mother. And almost a year after her, in 1981, my husband died. A cancerous cancer. And I never dreamed of living in Europe, other than in Africa. Never. I was well on my continent. But I was 22 years old. I was orphaned, blind, without a soul, in a unknown country, and with a little boy who was almost three years under my arms. So, where to go in these conditions? So, I stayed. I didn't regret it. I stayed. I didn't regret it. And it's my voice that saved me. It's music. It's music. When I met a musician named Nicolas Fisman, the one we started writing, I was lucky that it worked directly. So I finished my little jobs, finished my work, started another life. But yet, I abandoned music to go back to my continent. I lived half a year in the center of Mali, in a small village. And why? Why in the middle of villages? I could have gone to Bamako, I don't know, to Odakar. Well, to learn. I wanted to learn. I traveled to several countries from the West Africa, from the North to the South, from the West, but really by car and in total autonomy. So it's time to meet, to see, to even participate. Mauritania, Senegal, Gambia, Niger, Mali, Burkina, Ghana, Togo, Benin. It does a lot. Observe, listen, and try to understand. That's how I learn. And that's how I like to learn. In my village, everyone gets up and sits with the sun. Between the two, it's hard work, but the harvest is smaller and smaller. And the villagers who don't understand say, the rains are no longer the same as before. Something has changed in the sky. But something is the climate. And the young people go. They migrate to neighboring countries, to work in mines or in large plants. It's a necessity. So the little they earn, they keep a part for them and another they send to the family, to the village, to be able to finish the year. But maybe one day, they will take the big one. They are 17, 18, 20 years old. Maybe they will cross one day. I came back to live in Africa and precisely, in the small villages, to try to find an idea, a formula, something that would keep them. That's why I came back. So we do little things. For seven years, with women, teachers, there are little projects that don't need any structure and that don't bother us nor traditions, nor the way of life. It's small, but it works well. I've always said, this phrase from Gandhi, that said, all you will do will be derisory, but it is as important as you do it. And that's what I do. In any case, that's what I try to do. So where am I? In Malta, 15 days ago, Europeans offered 3.6 billion euros to Africans in exchange, I say, of an irregular immigrant heritage and a reinforcement of the capacity to re-admission people expelled from their country of origin. Wow. And at the same time, we have 3.6 billion. And at the same time, the World Bank announced in 2014 that 60 billion dollars were sent to their families, by us, the Africans from abroad. 3.6 billion. I don't know if this can work, this solution. Because this line, the engine of this line, are the migratory flows. So how to compensate is the lack of earning more than 50 billion if we repatriate people. You have to, I don't know, keep your feet on the ground, have good blood, I don't know anything. I think this way, it can't work. They are thoughts on wooden legs that last for decades. It's been decades that we have received hundreds of billions of help from development and all sorts. But I am, I live in the villages and I assure you that I am sorry to have to say that I don't see their traces in the daily life of people. But well, that's how it is and the Burundi, I forgot, the Burundi. In 1991, I signed my first artist contract with a big disc house. I took my son under my arm and I left to live in my country, in Burundi. I was chased for the war for the first time, and the second time, I went to the embargo, because the embargo wanted to tell me that I couldn't travel, so I didn't work. But I don't know if I will be able to emigrate to my home. There are two. We will leave them alone. But Burundi today is on the edge of the civil war. The UN says that the violence linked to the crisis of the Third Amendment to Burundi has made hundreds of deaths and more than 250,000 refugees in neighboring countries displaced, refugees, migrants, the war, the persecution, or the end, or the difference. And there is one. It is in the law, because the law is intended for political refugees. But it is not intended for those who don't have a school anymore, because the world on the other side has polluted their planet and has changed their season. This has nothing to do with them. We can call them climate migrants. And there will be more and more. And one day, we will have to create a framework for them. And I will tell you, no one will be able to prevent someone who is in a camp who has nothing to eat, who has children, or even alone. No wall will prevent them from going to look for anything better. Nothing. But the migrants are also raped women, abused children and resorted to slavery in the country of passage. They are men to the mercy of the passers who raquette them and mistreat them. And sometimes they kill them. We talked about 5,000 months. But the migrants are not just a number addition. They have a face, a voice, a dream. I went to see them in Sicily five days ago. There, I met teenagers who one day decided to take the path of exile alone. I will tell you their words in images. I am the danger. I have an idea in my head that those who have to die on Earth can never die in the water. Those who have to die in the water can never die on Earth. Love is unique. They are very scared. I am scared. I don't even know how to swim. My mom, all the world is talking about the migrants. We choose the migrants. We have them in New York with the girls in New York. The migrants. Of course, Giuliano. With the people. With the president of America. In Milan too. Oh, the migrants. The world is changing. The world is changing. It is not possible to stop the mobility. The mobility is a human right. You are human. You are human. You are human. I came here because of my future. I would like to study and try to build my life a little. Well, try to participate in the development of my country. Do you think that when you study you will come back? Even if I have been here for 50 years. One day, I will have to come back to my country. Because it is all me. The mobility is a human right. I am here. I am here. When I came to our country, I took the opportunity to come back to my country. I did not leave my country to come here directly. I did not have this idea. I just wanted to build a little next to Algeria. And then come back. After Algeria, it started to go well. But in the end, the racism started to change. Black people like that. I sent a little to the country. I saved a little to the side. I wanted to return to my country but I see that when I return it comes back to zero again. You had the chance, yes. We have to go out to try to build there and then come back to our country. I have the idea that only Africans can help Africans. They are 17 years old, they are 16 years old, they are 13 years old today. Imagine how long they have been gone. How old are they? What did they say to their families? Because the first question I asked them was, did you plan to tell your parents that you are alive? You told them that everything is going well? They said yes, we sent them messages. But they are children. But they are adults too today. And what I like in this film and I did not brief them is that they are going to look for because you told me about these Africans like us whose continent is proud but those of you who speak foreign language and I never make myself hot to hear young people who have gone through all this and who continue to say I want to study to develop my country. So we are in a second phase of African who leave but who especially want to come back. Just before the war I was in contact with 35 young people who are brilliant at a high level who have done a lot more studies than I and who have returned now they have some other refugees but I have hope because in the I don't have a mouchoir, I'm sorry I didn't do it on purpose, I didn't expect I didn't know it was going to be like this. You didn't have a mouchoir either. And that's what makes me that's what makes me shock is that in the head of our young people born a grain who are proud of the Africans who understood how much the Africans were a great continent and they understood that we are sitting on the greatest treasures of the planet where everyone is fighting you see and for that even those who leave will study and will come back to build our country that's why I came to serve as an example to show them to my mother in the villages but it goes through school but we can talk during the hours of the school system but that's another subject in any case, I thank you infinitely for listening to me and receiving my testimony ah yes excuse me, I want to finish on a very beautiful sentence that I like a lot and which sums up everything it's from Francis Cabrel whatever the price we give we all have in the same aquarium thank you thank you very much Kaja for that electrifying presentation and one of the remarks in the film which struck me was the quote which you said I think their only luggage is the hope on the road which is really so true and we're very grateful that you came here soon as your luggage this film is for you, for your campaign if you want to use it, you can it's my contribution thank you so we'll have some questions in a few minutes but I'm now going to turn to on my left we have Guy Nook who, if I may just say that at the last year's migrant voices we played another film which was called or an excerpt from a film called The Lost Boys of Sudan well here today, beside me I'm very proud to introduce indeed somebody who was one of those lost boys of Sudan and who left Sudan on foot and traveled over 500 kilometers with his brother to Ethiopia and live that life which we've seen on the big screen but which is indeed a very real and important story and more to the point of the theme of today Guy is today and he's a diplomat in the American Foreign Service so he's traveled not just a geographical journey but a huge personal and career journey and we're absolutely delighted to have you with us today first I'd like to say thank you to everyone that's here today and to the IOM my journey started with IOM started 14 years ago when I was in a refugee camp in Kenya I was being resettled to the United States and IOM and those organization that was very instrumental in my resettlement but before that I had I had trouble I had been searching for refuge a long time before that I was born in South Sudan in a small village in a small town along the Nile during the 1980s the war in South Sudan intensified lots of villages were burned down a lot of town were destroyed and young people young men were being targeted my family there were small farmers, subsistence farmers they farm and grow their own food and life became increasingly difficult for them and many other villages in the countryside of South Sudan so we were forced to basically leave our homes villages and villages were being burned down there was war everywhere we were we didn't have an option but to escape the country and this is when we started walking toward Ethiopia the journey was about 500 miles we did not have much to eat we ate foods from the trees along the way we didn't have water so we had to rely on water that we found in the mountains along the way we didn't have any cloth on we didn't have shoes on so we had blisters and calluses developed on our feet so when we reached Ethiopia we stayed there for a couple years this would have been 1990 1991 around that time we stayed in a UN refugee camp in the western part of Ethiopia life was a little bit better we had food for us but nothing was permanent and soon after the war in Ethiopia at that time it was a very there was war going on in Ethiopia at that time and in 1992 it came to the region that we were so we were caught in the middle of the Ethiopian war so we had to escape back to South Sudan even though it was not any better many of us along this second journey where people were shot because we were caught in the war some of us had to cross the rivers and we could not swim there was about 20,000 of us we were called the Lost Boys we were between the age of maybe 5 years old to 10 years old we did not have parents we did not have anybody with us and we had to cross back into Sudan many of us lost our lives many of the young people did lose their lives and I was with my brother so my brother helped me along this journey when we came back to South Sudan it was not safe the war was still everywhere so we decided to continue walking toward Kenya in the southern in the south toward the southern part of southern Sudan we walk basically it was the same journey that we took in the first place we walked toward Kenya and in Kenya we were welcomed by UNICR refugee camp was set up for us for the Sudanese refugees we arrived in Kenya in about 1993 so the refugee camp that I studied was called Kakoma refugee camp we stayed there from 1993 until the time that I was resettled to the United States the UN was basically our life saviour at that time the UN set up the refugee camp they provide with us shelter they provide with us education I was able to go to school in Kenya and when we first got there it was not it was just basically an empty an empty area so we would just settle down we build hearts and we build tents and the first three years that I was going to school actually I was going to school under a tent because there was not many educational facilities so my first grade second grade, third grade I was under a trade in learning with many people that were also eager to learn I would have been one of the youngest in the class but there were also people in the teens young people in the teens that were doing first grade because this was the first opportunity for them to go to school and they were very excited to be able to go to school and hopefully in the future provide for the families and for their country luckily for me and for us that part of Kenya was very dry so it was okay to take classes under a tree it never rained and I was able to do this and by the time by the time I went to the US in 2001 I was in sixth grade life in Kenya at the refugee camp was difficult food ration was provided by the UN but it was always not enough we had about 3 kilograms of wheat flour every 15 days and that usually finished within 10 days and then the last last 4 or so days you had to share food with your relatives and other lost boys and other people in the community because it was 3 kilograms is probably not enough food for 2 weeks so life in Kenya for us it was better than what it had been in Tarsudan but it was not in life that most people had as fights for and people were eager to go somewhere else come to the west and be able to go to school and make a life for themselves so it was always in the back of our head to look for opportunity elsewhere and in 1999 the United States decided to resettle some of the lost boys of Tarsudan so the program started at that time and it took about 2 years for us to be fully to be interviewed and go through the medical clearance and things like this and this is when the IOM came through and they help us basically train us and see how they could help us adjust the orientation responsible for the IOM and I can remember when I was in that class orientation class many of us were going to the United States and some other some places within the US were extremely cold so to make us really understand what how cool it was the path a piece of ice along the room and we had to touch the ice and it was really on how different it was really because we were in a very hot area so I'm very grateful to the IOM and to the countries that support the IOM for what they do for migrants when I was living when I was living the refugee camp in Kenya toward New York City I had all my documents in a small IOM back and I can still remember those good times and when I went to the US I was 15 at the time that was 14 years ago and I was placed with an American family since I could not take care of myself my brother also came but he was he was older so he had about 3 months to adjust and be able to look after himself in the United States I was put in an American family so they welcomed me as one of these sons I went to high school and also to go back to the refugee camp I had only finished 3 years of school at the refugee camp provided by the UN but 6 years I should say and when I came to the US I went to 9th grade so the education that I received at the refugee camp was real I was very grateful because it allowed me to jump basically 3 grades from 6th grade to 9th grade so also I'm very fortunate that the UN did that for us I finished high school after 3 years there in the States and I was able to go to a college in my hometown and after that I just got my master's degree in the United States and I before I can go there I like to say when I came to the US many organizations many Facebook organizations they were very eager to help us they could see that they really appreciated the idea that many of these refugees we were coming to their country we were escaping persecution and many Americans were very happy to see that their country was a safe haven for people running away from persecution so they helped us they somehow taught us how to speak English we took ESL classes and basically provide food for us and help us with anything that we needed so I was very fortunate in that sense and especially from my brother he was older and we had to be by himself within 3 months so because of this support that we received when we came there we were able to adjust our country and I was able to go to school I was able to continue to further my studies so that's that was my journey recently in September I just became a foreign service officer and now I'm working for the US government so I'd like to be very thankful to all of you and to everybody that I have refugees and migrants around the world thank you very much for organizing this session and for giving us the opportunity to listen to Guy's story Khaja's story Jabril's story and to really put a human face on migration and a chance to really be reminded that our work together is much more about migration but it's really about people and human experience so thank you very much these compelling positive perspectives on migration are essential to changing the narrative especially the narrative that's out there today there are countless migrants like Guy Khaja and Jabril who are making valuable contributions and we all need to make every effort in our home countries to make their stories known the experience of Guy and others also point to a very important reality that migrants can and in many cases are integrating very effectively and it's particularly important at a time that there's been a recent uptick in very disheartening narratives related to migrants and migration that the integration it doesn't have to take years doesn't have to take decades or in some cases generations Guy's integration began immediately as did his brothers the same holds true for many migrants and there are really a whole host of ways that governments can facilitate this process the key elements of the U.S. resettlement system include coordination with local communities NGOs and local authorities and providing access as Guy mentioned to education and also to employment opportunities facilitating access to employment is really essential to allowing the immigrants to unleash their potential and their the unique talents that we've heard just from our speakers that they bring to our communities and to unleashing their ambitions now in Guy's chosen profession and we're very proud of him he will enter a selective form of public service as a diplomat although many years ago our foreign service was subject to criticism for its lack of diversity we've really been working hard and have made great strides toward greater equality and greater opportunity clearly we all have more to do in this area but there's a principle here that applies to migration the prospects for successful integration and migration management hinges in part on the emphasis we place on human rights and on democratization so lastly let me just say Guy thank you to you for sharing your encouraging inspiring and fascinating personal history I had a chance to get to know you over the summer when you interned at our mission and just getting to know you and getting the opportunity to work with you has had a really big impact on my life and I just wanted to let you know how incredibly proud we are of you how incredibly grateful for international organizations like IOM that have helped so many people with dreams like yours become a reality so thank you very much and thank you for coming back to Geneva to share your story with us I would like to thank the interns this morning as a migrant but my question I will rather ask Madam Kajia she who has been able to live this migration which is part of a southern country for other southern countries and looking at what we followed what she did as a film or what she presented to us the situation she lived with migrants in Italy looking at all of this and also looking at the fight she was leading what could she do all of this is true but what could she do for our African countries why do I say this because migration when it goes from south to north people tend to believe that people come because they want to come to earn money because they want to become rich but when we look at the documentary the young people say I want to learn to have experience and go back to my country to develop my country there is something that has changed the young people who don't want to come to Europe to stay I am African I am with some young people especially in France in Switzerland maybe not but especially when I go to France I often meet them and I ask them questions what do you do there do you have a good job have you done training do you want to go back to your country many say they want to go back but looking at the political situation that prevails in our country the children are not boosted they are not stimulated I come to the country do I have an opening to be able to exercise in the field that has become mine can I be accepted as a migrant part of Europe can I be accepted easily because people are going to say listen, it has been 10-15 years in Europe, we don't know what they have come to do this is also behaviors that we find in those who stay in the country they tend to stigmatize those who have left they say when they come back they come to share the cake especially at the level of the administration those who are in the private sector it can happen but when they come to work in the administration it is even harder I would like to ask what does she want to do as an action because she has been a good volunteer she brings some actions she takes care of some people she goes to some places that's why I ask her this question I don't know if she can give me an answer thank you thank you my sister you have already answered a lot your own question you know what I can tell you what I can do this little thing that Gandhi told me but it is important that I do it so I don't have power beyond not more than you I am an artist, I am a woman I am a mother, I am a citizen all that is good sometimes some doors open but not as high as I wish and even those who open the door up there don't have the hands as free as they pretend to when they want to elicit them you see and make promises hiding behind your little finger it doesn't work the problem comes from us as the young man said in the film he said Africa will be saved by the Africans themselves I think that and for the young people who come back we don't know what they call they are happy even to be called the conscious generation it is a new generation they are very committed thanks also to social networks they talk, they exchange and they want to enter maybe it's not this generation that will enter, maybe it's the one after but the grain is planted and I will tell you those who leave for Africa don't leave to work in the administration they leave to create they create small companies or they find jobs because they speak several languages they have an experience so they don't go back to look for work they go back to create they go back with the idea that it can be useful, they don't know how and they want to enter because today they have seen that in the end even if we are poor we live better at home than there but for me to go back to Africa to do small things for example in my village which has 500, 700 souls as we say we created a women association because at the moment it's like the UNICEF when we catch women we have the child when we have the mother we have the child when the child is alone it doesn't work so I addressed my mother in general we have a thousand who bring us a little the idea is not to do spectacular things but the idea is to understand how they live to understand how without changing their way of life or their traditions to improve their lives so that they have income that they don't need the child and that the child can go to school that's my thing they came to see me they told me now we have a little box we sewed a lot and we managed to sew 500 euros the equivalent of 325,000 and we came to ask you what we can do tell me it's you who know so they decided to sum up we have our small bank 500 euros but what I didn't know is that it's a real bank it's getting ready with interest and it's changing even the perception of their wives because they are the only ones to be able to borrow from our little canyons it's little but what's left it's beyond me in the room, I don't know if there's someone who can tell us I'm going to talk to them and we're going to find the solution it's not like that it works it works with stability it works when there's no war because if there's no stability if there's no peace there's no development and then allow me I can't leave without saying it there's corruption there's corruption so there are games that I don't understand so I stick to what's at my level and I hope to create emuls I hope to find an idea a formula that is duplicated and makes us get out of this look up that will bring us to our future because it's been 50 years I don't know I just want to there's three narrations in terms of when we deal with this issue there is a positive narration that is really advanced by there is a second narration which is a politically and financially motivated narration the old narration be it for a regime change or financial benefits because you see some kind of NGOs under the name mushrooming when there is of such a magnitude the third narration is the emotional narration where political groups would capitalize on this which is what we see now in Europe the emotional narration where they become anti-immigrant because they capitalize to the certain limited constituency so I think when we deal with this issue all of us here care I don't question anybody who is in this room has any other motive except the positive narration so let us all scratch the surface look at this issue and let us sincerely concentrate on a fact based credible sources and only then will help the migrants no matter whatever we want to call them whether they are illegal migrants legal migrants whatever human traffickers and all these things let us all concentrate on the victims and their future let me say that what we have had here today has been very touching I think Madame Nin covered it all all aspects of migration and I want to thank her for that complete presentation but I would like to make a particular comment on Guy's presentation I have two points that came out of this that are very relevant one is the importance of education of refugees in general about migrants in general about refugees in particular I mean he made a point about having nine years of education in the refugee camp which served him in good stead because most of the time people are not so convinced on the need to spend on education of people who are waiting in refugee camps so I think that is a very good point the second point is that of resettlement resettlement gave the opportunity for Guy to get to the US finish his education and be able to be employed in a position that is very important I had a question for him then because at the time we were very much worried about about your family back in South Sudan have you been able to maintain contact have they been able to have access to family visits to you just curious to know that thank you now I am in contact with them with my mom she now lives in Uganda she lives with my sister during the 1990s and in the early 2000s it was difficult for people to move in and out of South Sudan because the whole region was basically a war zone so it was not it was not easy for them to get out it was not easy for me to go back in into the country my sister worked with her and she was she remained behind in South Sudan so the last time I saw her was 1993 so it has been 22 years now I haven't seen my sister but we do stay in touch now that they live in Uganda and just by hearing their voice once in a while that is sufficient that is enough the understanding is a difficult situation it is something that gives them satisfaction yes I am an immigrant hope it changes instead of IOM I am an immigrant organization in the future to have the more voice of the immigrants well I would like to share one thing while we were here yesterday and discussing about immigrants I have seen the news on my mobile saying that 40 Afghan immigrants who take them I think more than 8 months to reach to Turkey they were forced to be back to Kabul by Turkish line and among them several or not Afghans the police of the airport recognized at least 7 of them well and also the same day yesterday we had another Turkish year line landing to Mazar-e-Sharif a city north of Afghanistan which was carrying 6 bodies from a family with 8 members so this is just I want to share the voice of immigrants a part of what is happening right now in the world and also to request IOM and member states for being committed what are they committing in these international events I think none of the states member is agree for being immigrants to return thank you very much so with that I'm just going to draw the talk to a close and just ask the director general briefly if you'd like to make a comment thank you very much for this been very inspiring to us I want to thank you also Leonard for your presentation on IOM a migrant I think this will be and remain one of our key challenges how do we change the public perception back to a more historically correct version that migrants have always been key contributors to the development of countries they have always been overwhelmingly positive force in societies and so I would urge all of our member states and observers to look at the IOM migrant campaign and to see if it's not something that might be useful to you and your own country to counter discriminatory depictions of migrants and help get beyond the very very dangerous rhetoric that is being so often employed and let us have your ideas and your suggestions what do you think about the campaign how can it be improved how can it be a given broader distribution in the world and I want to thank Ambassador Hamamoto in particular for her accent on the importance of integration which may very well be the key to everything else we're talking about including perception it's going to be the quality of the welcome and the smoothness of the integration process that may make the difference in how we handle all of the movements including the demographic deficit the competition for skills the attempt to implement the sustainable development goals so that we don't waste three or four years talking about process but that we get down to action right now so I think that I think that the presentations this morning have helped us to understand much better why this segment of the council is always among the most popular of the entire four day council so thank you all very much really appreciate your coming thank you very much Director General Deputy Director General other distinguished guests thank all of you for your participation and your presence here now whether they like it or not I'm taking these two guests upstairs to be interviewed for the I'm a migrant campaign so that their own profiles will be present on that will be my captive thank you so much all of you