In addition to the external factor of rebounding steel prices, enterprises are also forging arduously ahead on the path of lowering costs.

The multinational force continues to work arduously to conduct traditional security and stability operations, as well as to recover and destroy munitions and landmines, provide air support, conduct maritime interception operations and protect multinational reconstruction efforts.

The Rio Group will continue to work arduously in order to make possible this objective, together with cooperation in demining and victim assistance, because these are fundamental and complementary aspects of alleviating suffering and opening the way to development.

That agenda is clearly manifested in the work of the hundreds of non governmental organizations and civil society groups that work arduously with the aim of eliminating nuclear weapons and other weapons of war to ensure the security not only of representatives and of Governments, but of us all as members of the human family.