I was the director general of the international directorate that was engaged in all the bilateral and multilateral negotiations that were being done, and that was from about the mid-1980s until I retired in 1996. So we're running about 12 years, I think, that I was the director general, and I was in the international directorate before, at lower levels, for the previous 10 years or so.
On March 5th, 2009. See this statement in context.