Major General Hassan Abdel-Shafi, the Chairman of Administrative Control Authority, during the concluding session, stated that the

Conference explained to the international community that combating corruption is still at the top of the political agenda.

Esteemed delegates, ladies and gentlemen We concluded the proceedings of the Conference of the State Parties

in its ninth session. The Conference considered several vital issues about the future of the Convention. This session ends up a

year of combating corruption. This Session was held after the exceptional session of the General Assembly for combating 

corruption, which adopted a political declaration that maps out the way we work to prevent and combat corruption for the coming

 years. We demonstrated to the international community that combating corruption is still at the top of the political agenda. In 

addition, the states are renewing and enhancing their efforts for implementing the principles and standards of the Convention. 

The Conference undertook several important tasks for the future. We are expecting more work to do, and I will be pleased to 

work with the esteemed delegation on our way to the Tenth Session. I would like to express my deep appreciation to the 

effective role played by all of you in this Conference: governments, international governmental organizations and civil society. 

The civil society played a major role as explained in the Convention. It was found out again that our collective contributions in 

the efforts to combat corruption within the framework of the Convention lead this Conference to achieving successful results.

Please allow me to assert that the Government of the Arab Republic of Egypt was pleased to host this session. I am also pleased

with this session and would like to express my appreciation to the assistance provided by the extended bureau in the work of the

Conference. I would like to express my appreciation to the vice-presidents of the Conference for the support they provided 

through chairing the general session and meetings held in parallel with it. I believe I am speaking in the name of all the

 delegations when I express our appreciation to all the Secretariat staff who contributed to our work and facilitated it by 

preparing the documents, drafting the Session report as well as providing advice and support to all the delegation in the 

different stages of our proceedings. I would like to add that we thank all the persons who worked behind the scenes and 

provided insightful help to us this week. We also thank all the Conferences service staff who undertook

the meeting, including those who edited, translated, copied and distributed our documents, as well as the interpreters and sound

engineering technicians. I also would like to extend my deep thanks and appreciation to

the Secretariat and the conference service team who enhanced the efforts to minimize the harmful environmental

 impacts resulting from holding this Session, especially reducing paper waste by encouraging the use of electronic documents

and online services. In addition, I would like to express my heart-felt gratitude to the leading role played by Dr. Ghada Wali, 

the Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. Her role was not limited to this Conference only; rather, 

her role also manifested in her leading the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime.