During the 57th UN Commission on the Status of Women, the department managed to stage a special parallel signing ceremony on 11 March 2013 at the UN Women's headquarters in New York, where we registered South Africa's commitment to the United Nations' campaign to "commit to end violence against women and girls". The ceremony was led by Ms Michelle Bachelet, the Under-Secretary-General of the UN and Executive Director of UN Women. I am also happy to announce that we have put forward a candidate as Ms Bachelet has been recalled by her country to stand as president of Chile. We presented Ms Sheila Sisulu as our candidate for the position of Executive Director of UN Women. [Applause.] I hope we shall work together whenever we go out of this country to lobby to make sure that she gets that top position, which is second after Ban Ki-moon.