His Serene Highness Prince Albert II, the Sovereign Prince of the Principality of Monaco, will be the keynote speaker and will declare the FICAC World Congress of Consuls officially open.
FICAC, the World Federation of Consuls, was founded in Copenhagen on 2 October 1982 by a small group of visionaries led by Consul General Vagn Jespersen of Denmark. Countries present at the meeting and first signatories were Finland, Greece, Iceland, Italy, Norway, Sweden and Denmark.