In all the talk, hope and fury about the Cairo conference, one agreed sentence has received almost no public or press attention.
The Cairo conference is aiming to stabilize it at 7.2 billion by the year 2050.
It is two years since the Cairo Conference was held and we note little result.
Still, the motivation to speak out on public issues, whether in response to the Cairo conference or something else, is not just reactive.
"There are more poor people in the world than ever before," says a paper prepared by 35 experts advising the staff of the Cairo conference.
The Cairo conference is supposed to approve measures to stabilize the world's population at 7.27 billion by the year 2050.
The nickname for the participants in the 1921 Cairo Conference.
The Cairo conference, as it is envisaged, would have three distinct tracks.
I hope that the same line will be strongly repeated at the forthcoming Cairo conference.
Until last spring, the main mission of the Cairo conference had been to help integrate Israel into the region's economy.