Closing Remarks

摘要

Chairperson Prof. Girish Kotwal, local and international delegates, ladies and gentlemen: It gives me great pleasure to address you at the end of what has been the most remarkable and unique 3-day conference here in Cape Town. It is unfortunate that I was not able to join you at the beginning of this conference. My duties as a member of the Inter-Ministerial Committee, tasked with the responsibility to coordinate the response to the Tsunami Disaster, that required that I attend a meeting on this matter in Geneva earlier this week.