As Beverly has said, the value of these Study Groups is bilateral. I think that we and our sitting Members whom we involve in these exchanges learn a lot and I think that the counterparts in the other countries also learn from us, and we learn basically that many of our problems are very, very similar. It's fascinating and it's a great experience.
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