the world meteorological organization, wmo, the oldest un organization, has been observing climate forrs, and today its observation is important. we meteorologists are, in a way , members of one family scattered all over the world. we have the same mentality regarding weather observations and services and the provision of these services, as well as climate change research. a unified approach that does not know state borders. the number of natural disasters in the world has doubled since 2000, the report states. safety of property and the environment. operationally, mogo has moved beyond damage control. now we have absolutely gender equality at almost all levels of management, the most important thing and this is really the merit of our current secretary general now at the level of heads of the organization , deputy secretaries general, at the level of residents, coordinators, special representatives and so on, the parity is 50/50, so in terms of gender equality we are a shining example. 20 years, and if you look further there 50 years, in 2020, when we celebrated the seventy-fifth anni