 Ladies and gentlemen, it's my great pleasure to wish you all a very happy new year and to wish much success and happiness to all of our member states, to all of our various stakeholders, to all of our readers, to all of our followers and all those who take an interest in intellectual property and in the world intellectual property organisation. Intellectual property is facing an increasingly complex landscape. A principal objective for 2017 as an organisation is to ensure that intellectual property contributes to the whole world, the whole international community in all of its diversity, to ensure that it makes a significant contribution to sustainable, economic and cultural development for all countries. We have a very full year ahead of us, a very full programme of committee meetings, our annual meeting in October of 2017 and a multiplicity of other events in and around intellectual property. And I very much look forward to seeing all of our member states and many stakeholders at these various events in the course of 2017 and ensuring that we all work in the same direction of intellectual property contributing to sustainable, economic and cultural development for all.