Today, we need to close this paper discussion session which has been a special one because of the support given to John Todd and Beth Josephson by their colleagues at Ocean Ark Inc. and by others who are working with the living machines from other parts of the world. On behalf of the Inst. Of Advanced Studies (UN University, Tokyo) and the Unesco Microbial Resources Centre (Stockholm) I wish to thank all of you for your efforts to provide responses to questions from an interactive audience, for the useful information on the operations of living machines in the world and for sharing your knowledge and experiences with the audience.

On next Monday, the ICIBS will have its last paper for the first session of the conference (April-June). We will continue again in October with the second session where there will be several papers from the developing countries. So I hope to have your support again.

I thank you all again, cheers !

Jacky Foo
ICIBS Secretariat.