 The International Atomic Energy Agency's annual meeting has been running in Vienna this week. The IAEA's General Conference is the global forum for cooperation in the nuclear field. 175 countries are sitting around the same table. We exchange experience. Networking between countries. Equal opportunities. Cultivating. Collaboration and partnership. Pandemic preparedness and response. I believe it contributes to peace. Important discussions on the use of nuclear energy. Climate change initiatives and the environment. It's about deciding together on what concerns all. Atoms for peace and development. Thousands of participants spent the week setting the direction of the IAEA's work and deciding on the agency's budget and other issues raised by the Board of Governors, the Director-General and Member States. The decisions made by the 175 IAEA Member States at the General Conference are providing solutions to the most pressing challenges of our time, such as non-proliferation, food, water and energy security and climate change. We are faced with an enormous number of problems, but we know that when we work here at the IAEA, we have the enormous privilege of doing something about them. The conference's main side event was the two-day Scientific Forum on Rays of Hope, the agency's signature program for improving access to radiation medicine for cancer care. The IAEA with its partners has always done unparalleled work to further access to cancer care around the globe. The Scientific Forum and the Rays of Hope initiative will bring radiotherapy, cancer care and thus the immense possibility and joy that I have had to so many others. Participants at other side events discuss the main challenges and opportunities in nuclear, from radiation safety to using nuclear science to protect cultural heritage.