improved and effective functioning of the Conference on Disarmament, there is a general realization now that there is a need to review our direction and our procedures. Informal open-ended consultations have started, and it is my hope that they will lead to a Quo Vadis mechanism, which will enable us to see by the end of this year's summer session how far we can go to bring the Conference on Disarmament into tandem with the developments and changes taking place in the real world outside. To sum up, therefore, there has been progress during the spring session but much remains to be done. Before closing the plenary, I would like to thank all of you. I would like to thank the secretariat, and I would like to thank the interpreters for their co-operation. I look forward to the presidency of Peru in the month of June, and until then I remain at your disposal for any interim housekeeping which is required. Before I adjourn this plenary meeting, I would like to make two announcements. The first is that the informal meeting which was supposed to be held immediately after this meeting on the subject of agenda item 2 will no longer take place, because we have run out of our allocated time today. CD/PV.554 41 (The President ) The next informal meeting will now take place on Tuesday, 19 June, and it will be devoted to agenda item 2, which is being carried over from today. The plenary meeting which was originally scheduled to take place on 19 June, on agenda item 3, will in consequence also be pushed back by one week to Tuesday, 26 June. The second announcement relates to the open-ended consultations on effective and improved functioning. The next open-ended consultation will 
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