President of the Czech Republic Milos Zeman on Thursday attended the re-opening of the Czech consulate on the island of Rhodes, during a visit to the island for the 2016 Rhodes ‘Dialogue of Civilizations’ Forum beginning on Friday. The Czech consulate on Rhodes has not operated for the past five years.
In a brief address, Zeman referred to the history of Greece and Rhodes, which he said was a favourite holiday destination for Czech citizens and especially the elderly, promising to personally take action to boost the flow of tourism to the island.
The ceremony was attended by local government officials and the Czech Ambassador in Greece.
Zeman will be a keynote speaker at the opening of the 2016 Rhodes Forum on the theme “The Chaos of multiplicity: an Urgent Call for Dialogue” that opens at the Sheraton Rhodes Resort on Friday morning.
Held since 2002, the Rhodes Forum is an annual session of the World Public Forum Dialogue of Civilizations (headquartered in Vienna). From 2016 it will be a key annual event organised by the Dialogue of Civilizations Research Institute (headquartered in Berlin).
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