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ISGF 24
th
World Conference 2005
Conference Report
New ISGF World Committee Chairman Address
Martine Levy
Dear friends,
I would like to thank you for putting me here, at the Chairmanship of ISGF; I hope the new
World Committee and the World Bureau won't disappoint you during the 3 following years.
I would like to thank all of Norway and especially Bjorg and the Host Committee for the
wonderful conference we have just lived; this conference would not have existed if you all,
delegates and observers, had not come to make it live, and I am very moved to be in front of
you coming from all over the world and gathered for this World Conference.
I would like to thank and congratulate the 5 outgoing members of the World Committee,
especially Riccardo and Jean-Luc for the enormous work they have done and for the mainly
straight road they marked out for us.
The first ISGF Conference I attended in 2001 in Budapest in Hungary fascinated me; it was
very different from the other conferences, international meetings and forums I was used to
participating in, and I think I have been attracted by ISGF like a magnet.
So, apart from the emotion, I am proud and happy because I'll have the opportunity to serve
ISGF totally.
First of all, I don't want to forget how generous you have been in the World Market. Thank
you very much.
Thank you all for your extremely fruitful discussions and reflexions; you know the Constitution
by heart; you gave us your agreement on the World Committee Action Plan; only a few days
have been enough for us to have a Strategic Plan which allows us to implement our new
Mission which will lead us to the Vision we have fixed.
But who is us? us, first of all, it is you; as we rely on you to tell us in a critical way all what
you think of the Strategic Plan when you are back home.
But us it is also us, the World Committee members supported by the World Bureau; we'll be
listening to you in order to work on that Strategic Plan. And I hope that in 3 years time, we'll
deliver a better plan, which will be adopted by the World Conference.
Us, it is still the World Committee members and the World Bureau and I am pleased to be so
well surrounded ; but I would like to say, immediately, to my colleagues and especially to the
new ones, who I congratulate for their election, that the task will be heavy.
When a person is a candidate to the World Committee, it is because this person wants to
serve ISGF, because this person believes in it, because this person is ready to give as much
as possible to accept the challenges; yes, my friends, we'll have to work hard together, to
have new ideas, to be enthusiastic, to dream of a great future.
I would like to go now to another part of my speech. It will probably be boring for you but if I
don't say it I won't be in harmony with myself. So could you please excuse me.
I would like to dedicate the Chairmanship of the ISGF World Committee to different persons.
