 We had a very productive 18th session of the CDIP beginning from 31st October this year. The committee made a lot of progress under the able guidance of Ambassador Chavez of Peru. There was one very long standing issue of technical review of technical assistance. Luckily we had an agreement on that issue this time. After almost it started from the 8th session and this was the 18th session. So you can imagine after 10 sessions we had an agreement on that. There was an issue outstanding for a long time which is now called the General Simile Decision on CDIP related matters. Unfortunately the committee didn't have time. We'll be coming back to that issue for the next session. Quite a bit of reporting. We had a progress report which provided an overview of progress on all the projects, on all the recommendations. We had a report on the conference on IPN development that was held this year. It was a very successful conference, appreciated by delegations, by the civil society a lot. So we had a report. The committee considered the report, requested that there should be similar biennial conferences in the future. So that indicates that the conference was considered very successful. We also had a very important report and that was a 5-year or 6-year independent review of the implementation of the development agenda. It was conducted by three external experts. Member States will continue to discuss this issue as to how to implement recommendations contained in that report. Three other issues. One was transfer of technology. There were proposals submitted by the Member States. We approved some proposals for the work based upon a proposal, project proposal submitted by the delegation of South Africa will be considered for the next session. We also had considered SDGs. The secretariat is supposed to go back with a lot of reports, by the way, to the committee, to its next session and future sessions. Consideration of SDGs will continue in the committee. The last but an important, again, issue was we have a database on flexibilities and countries had requested the secretariat to provide, suggest mechanism to regularly update it. The committee decided on one of the options that we proposed. We are supposed to disseminate information about this database. So overall, a very successful committee meeting.