It would help us to measure the progress that we are making, among other things to help those who are falling behind to catch up with the rest. One of the serious challenges all of us face, certainly as goverments, is the question of capacity. As we run ever faster to catch up with a world that, in some respects, is changing at breakneck speed, while battling to solve deeply entrenched problems in our countries, so does it become ever more necessary to consider time as a factor of production to which we must attach a material value. Perhaps to declare war on the misuse of this resource, we could count the time spent on planning as a cost and the time spent doing what we had decided to do as a benefit. Thus, if nothing is done to implement what we decided to do, we would increase the cost of the time we spent planning at Conference.
Nothing is done until it is done.
I make bold to suggest that nothing will be done until we do what has to be done - namely to ensure that we implement we reach. The last point we would like to make is that the more we report to one another about what we are actually doing, the greater the transparency among ourselves about our practical activity, the more we will defeat rumour and prejudice and false knowledge, which, in many instances, create barriers of mistrust among ourselves. The greater will be the urge among us in fact to act as partners, in a smart way. Thus shall the Nicodemus's among us be born again as the doers of the smart thing to do, to be true partners in building the better world of which the millions of our people dream - hopefully not suffocating under the frustration at the Conference Craze, against which Vladimir Mayakovsky sang with such passion.