Dear Honourable Colleagues and Friends,
As FICAC, our main objective is “Bridging the World” and for this, all of us, we need Cooperation, Goodwill, Friendship, Peace, Health, Serenity, Love, Happiness, Patience, Tolerance and Success.
Unfortunately, all along this year 2016, citizens of the World had to face many natural disasters and terrorist attacks: also, today, I would like to propose “Come Together, Be Stronger” as the 2017 slogan of the World Federation of Consuls.
Let me wish to all of you and to your beloved families the most Peaceful, Healthy and Happy New Year 2017!
Yours sincerely,
Aykut Eken, President
World Federation of Consuls
Recently, the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released last year reported that the climate is already changing and the impacts are already being felt. And, further climate change is inevitable in the coming decades. The scientists have reported, and I quote “Climate change – once considered an issue for a distant future, has moved firmly into the present”.