If we fail to solve them, we have no one but ourselves to blame.
This Congress stressed the need to form and strengthen partnership or alliance among those involved in leprosy. ILA certainly will try to be a trust worthy member of the group, together with WHO, ILEP, ILU, IDEA and hopefully many others.
I trust that all of you here are the willing partners of our work over the next five years. Therefore, I look forward to meeting with you in Brazil in the year 2003, to report what progress we have made on the issues this Congress has identified as important, then to plan for the future actions needed in order to get ever closer to "A World Without Problem related to Leprosy, both Medical and Social".
Before closing, I would like to thank the Ministry of Health of the People's Republic of China, our official host and supporter, and its officials and staff members especially Prof. Yin Dakui and Dr. Wan Zhao of the Organizing Committee and Mr. Cai Dong Qian of the local secretariat. Without their full hearted collaboration, this congress could not have been organized as well as it did. I also wish to reiterate may thanks to our cosponsors, WHO and ILEP. The way we managed to work together for this congress indicates mutually profitable future collaboration toward our common goal.
I now wish you a safe journey home and a successfully undertaking of activities in your chosen field.
Thank you for your kind attention.
I now declare that the XVth International Leprosy Congress is closed.
