<prompt> Translate the following text to EnglishKama tulivyosema wakati tulipopitisha maandishi ya Tume ya Mwaka 2000: Mapokeo hayajawahi kumalizika, kwa sababu wakati ujao bado haujakuja.  <response>: As we said when we adopted an epigraph for the Commission on the Year 2000: The past is never finished, for the future is yet to come. 