 I am very happy and it's a great honour for me to be here and to have been asked to add or to contribute in closing these two-day conference. I think developing Urban Futures is one of the pressing topics all over the world. And I think you have been here in Addis at a very special time. When it was decided that the conference would take place here in Addis, I think nobody had imagined the dramatic changes that have been going on here in the country for the last about six months and you can see this opening up even in the city related to the topics you were discussing during the last two days you see come down fences around plots of lands that have been attributed to investors for certain projects but those projects have never materialized and the city is taking this land back from them and while during there were pretended projects there were fences but now the fences are taken down you can see you can see much more of the city which is quite amazing for those who drive through the city every day. I have been I feel very privileged to have been able to listen to outstanding experts in various fields. Being a diplomatic or a foreign service civil servant, I'm not an expert in urbanization and in urban issues. We touch on very many fields during our professional career and hardly become an expert of anything but of course having as a diplomat having lived in a number of cities throughout the world like Cairo, Cairo by the way in the 80s and Cairo in the 2000s in Istanbul in New York and now in Addis I can relate to a lot of issues you have been discussing during the last days from environmental transport to housing and what have you but let me add that I'm also very proud that a renowned private society from Germany together with the well-known London School of Economics from from the UK have put up this outstanding program. This seems to be a well established cooperation like so many between Germany and Great Britain and this is a cooperation that with Brexit coming coming yes coming is even more relevant and more important than than in the past and I'm very happy that my British colleague my wonderful British colleague who is not only a colleague but also a friend has also been here this morning to briefly speak to you this shows I think that on a individual personal level cooperation is still going on very strongly and as an ambassador of course I'm always happy to accompany to support or in this case more to accompany corporations between scholars and practitioners not only between Germany and Great Britain but from a large part of the world in this case also from many parts of Africa and I think I will go home with a lot of new insights and a lot of food for thought from all your contributions and I would like to thank the organizers and all the participants for this wonderful conference thank you so much