Opening Ceremony

Chair
Alessandro Pajno

Welcome Addresses
Benedetto Della Vedova, Undersecretary of State, MFA Italy
Vincenzo Amendola, Undersecretary of State for European Affairs
Francesco Ubertini, Rector of the Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna

Reading of the Messages
President of the Italian Republic, Sergio Mattarella
The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet
His Holiness Patriarch of Antioch and All the East, Supreme Head of the Universal Syrian Orthodox Church, Ignatius Aphrem II
His Holiness Patriarch of Moscow and all Russia, Kirill
His Holiness Pope Francis

Opening Speech of the President of the Republic of Slovenia, Borut Pahor

Speech of the Prime Minister of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, Mahinda Rajapaksa
Speech of the President of the World Jewish Congress, Ronald Steven Lauder