May7, 2004

Your Excellency Prime Minister,

Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen,

Truly, I am grateful to have this privileged, to address this honorable gathering of the religious, Political, Academic and Social leaders from all over the world.

I recognize well, what it means that I am in Athens today. Athens means to me the historical deep of our civilization; Muslims had benefited from the Greek civilization, then we developed our civilization and conveyed it sincerely, to other nations throughout the world.

Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen,

Undoubtedly, the world civilization is a cumulative human heritage. It is our joint responsibility to protect our common legacy from corruption and ruin. We have to work together to overcome culture of clash among civilizations; because culture of clash means simply, encouraging culture of terrorism. We have to declare there is no clash among civilizations and   there is no end of history. We have to emphasize our absolute faith with culture of integration among civilizations.

 Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen,

Through this a respectful meeting. And by a sincere cooperation among cultures; I hope that we can start once again to rebuild trust among civilizations and to activate our common culture for realizing justice, peace, stability, sustainable development and safe human co-existence.

Thank you                 والسلام