*  *  *  During the last years, we have consolidated this conference as an international forum, which includes some of the most renowned academics and monetary policymakers from developed and emerging economies.
The lesson I believe that all of us here in this room should take from the last few years is that resilience and trust must be built within our own Pacific region, by us. We cannot rely on the US or Europe to provide international stability in the way that we perhaps once thought.