Our guest of honour is Dr. Agni Vlavianos-Arvanitis from Athens. Dr. Arvanitis, I have followed your innumerable initiatives for some years, and for an outsider it is almost impossible to visualise that anybody can achieve so many quite remarkable things. Creating an Organisation such as the Biopolitics International Organisation is certainly no small matter, but you have also managed to create positive relations between groups of people in a rather remarkable way.
      Among your diverse activities is the publication of 900-page book, a culmination of an astonishing ambition to spread the knowledge about the significance of the environment. The publication is an excellent collection for anybody interested in environmental issues, and each chapter is an enormous achievement.
      You have also taken a number of other impressive initiatives, including many international symposia and the concept of an International University for the Bio-Environment launched in 1990. And you also have some rather provocative ideas about environmental Olympics, cease-fire during the Olympic Games, and a number of other areas which bridge education, diplomacy, economics, and policy.
      So, you have impressed us all with the work and publications of your Organisation, many of which we have deposited here in the Academy’s library, because we are also active in the environmental field.