Honorable Ministers
Governor of Izmir
Metropolitan Mayor of Izmir
Honorable members of FICAC &
Honorable Ladies & Gentlemen

I welcome everyone at this official meeting of FICAC 9th congress in Izmir – Turkey.

It gives me an immense pleasure seeing most of the members of Ficac all together in Izmir.

I thank from my heart to honorable president Arnold Foote and the board of Ficac giving us this chance of hosting you.

I am sure we occupy a great deal of the world by our presence in different countries and we accomplish a lot of business, cultural events and good relations between our joint countries.

I am sure we do our business right.

As you now Izmir is a historical city going back 4.000 years and representing Hititis, Romans, Greeks and Ottoman cultures. You will be visiting thousands of years old cities, the house of virgin Mary. You will also see the collective life of different religions.

We will have the first world cup of Ficac in Izmir hippodrome; we will have ” carmina bruno ” ballet performance and opening ceremony of congress with Turkish foreign Minister’s address and economists and all the Religions of the world represented for Atatürks words of “peace at home and peace in the world” and different functions being followed.

We will have the triennial general assembly Of Ficac, followed by keynote speech of his Excellency, minister of state prof. Dr. Mehmet Aydin.

Then we have our closing dinner sponsored by Coca cola & özgörkey holding which i know we will all enjoy.

Please do have a good time, look around, meet the people and enjoy. We like you to have another reason to visit izmir again.

God bless you all.