We will need to prepare the ministerial conference that is to take place early next year more effectively.

Representatives of more than 80 countries are gathered for the ministerial conference, during which officials will try to find a new direction.

It is interesting to hear that the next Ministerial Conference will be taking place there.

Both the ministerial conference and the 50th anniversary commemoration were successful.

Let us now consider the prospects for the Ministerial Conference, which will take place in two weeks' time.

The first ministerial conference was held in Beijing from 10 to 12 October 2000.

Its results will be presented at a ministerial conference on 30 May 2002, in Rome.

The inaugural ministerial conference was held in Singapore in 1996.

I believe it will be the first time that a ministerial conference will address key issues regarding the future of the Convention.

We organised two productive ministerial conferences on immigration and development.