My gratitude also goes to all members of the General Committee. I would like also to express my appreciation and my thanks to the NGO community for its support to our common cause and to the success of our work and of this Conference. I would like now to pay a special tribute to my deputy Abdelkader Mesdoua, whose experience, dedication, support and friendship helped me to overcome the numerous hurdles I met during the last few weeks. Finally, I should like to thank the Secretariat of the Conference, and in particular Mrs. Hannelore Hoppe, whose large experience, tireless work, dedication and immense patience have greatly contributed to the success of this Conference, as well as the interpreters, the conference services, the conference room officers and documents officers, the translators, the DPI, and the many more Secretariat staff working behind the scene to assist us during our work. Their patience and cooperation were much appreciated.
Today is a great day for the cause of nuclear non-proliferation and nuclear disarmament.
Let us congratulate ourselves for the great achievement we made and upon which we should build up so that we could build a better and safer world for our children and for ourselves. Copyright 2000, Department for Disarmament Affairs, United Nations .