Prague Crossroads hosted once again the opening of Forum 2000
As is already nice annual tradition was also this year’s Forum 2000 conference opened at the Prague Crossroads. The title of the conference for the year 2009 is “Democracy and Freedom in a Multipolar World”. The ceremonial opening was taken by President Václav Havel and Japanese philanthropist Yohei Sasakawa with contributions from a renowned American philosopher, theologian and writer Michael Novak.
In his speech President Václav Havel looked back on the origins of the Forum 2000 Conference and reflected on the sense of conferences in general, which is often being questioned. Yohei Sasakawa began his presentation by highliting the significance of the Velvet revolution, led twenty years ago by Václav Havel.
The ceremony was closed by a music performance of Tonya Graves, an American-born singer of a Czech band “Monkey Business”.
The conference continues on Monday 12th and Tuesday 13th October in the venues of Žofín Palace, Goethe Institute, Laterna Magika, and many others of Prague. The conference will bring together the world’s major personalities. During two days at the Forum 2000 will appear as a Russian politician and economist Yegor Gaidar, a political activist and singer Bob Geldof, Belarus opposition leader Alexander Milinkevich and Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak.
