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Speech by His Highness the Aga Khan at the Award Ceremony for the 12th Cycle of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture, Lisbon 2013
Posted September 10th, 2013 by librarian-hdSpeech by His Highness the Aga Khan at the Award Ceremony for the 12th Cycle of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture – Lisbon, September 6, 2013
06 September 2013
Please also see: AKAA Press Material, Press Release in English.
Bismillah-ir-Rahman-ir-Rahim
Your Excellency President Cavaco Silva
Your Excellency Vice-Prime Minister Paulo Portas
Honourable Mayor António Costa
Members of the Diplomatic Corps
Excellencies
Distinguished Guests
Ladies and Gentlemen
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Speech by His Highness the Aga Khan at the Award Ceremony for the 12th Cycle of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture 2013-09-06
Posted October 14th, 2013 by librarian-hdBismillah-ir-Rahman-ir-Rahim
Your Excellency President Cavaco Silva
Your Excellency Vice-Prime Minister Paulo Portas
Honourable Mayor António Costa
Members of the Diplomatic Corps
Excellencies
Distinguished Guests
Ladies and Gentlemen
It is a special joy for me to welcome you this evening, and to thank you for being a part of this most auspicious ceremony, in this most appropriate place.
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Remarks by His Highness the Aga Khan at the Global Centre for Pluralism while introducing Kofi Annan 2013-05-24
Posted October 14th, 2013 by librarian-hdYour Excellency the Governor General
Mrs Johnston
Ministers
Excellencies
Distinguished Guests
Ladies and Gentlemen:
I am delighted to welcome all of you to the Global Centre’s second annual Pluralism Lecture. And I am especially honored to introduce today’s lecturer – Kofi Annan – the former Secretary General of the United Nations, Nobel Laureate, and global peacemaker.
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Speech by His Highness the Aga Khan at the UNESCO Conference on Culture and Development in Hangzhou, China
Posted May 19th, 2013 by librarian-hdMadame Irina Bokova, Director-General of UNESCO,
Honorable Ministers,
Excellencies,
Distinguished Guests,
Ladies and Gentlemen.
My warmest thanks go to all of you who have received us so generously here in Hangzhou, our Chinese hosts and our many friends from UNESCO.
I am honoured by your invitation, and pleased for this opportunity to talk about two subjects that are very close to my heart – culture and development.
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Speech by His Highness the Aga Khan at the Foundation Ceremony of the FMIC Women's Wing, Kabul 2012-10-20
Posted October 23rd, 2012 by librarian-hdBismillah-ir-Rahman-ir-Rahim
Your Excellency Vice President Khalili
Monsieur Laurent Fabius, Ministre des Affaires Etrangères de la Republique Française
Ministers in the Government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan
Parliamentarians
Ambassadors
Members of the Provisional Operating Committee of the FMIC
Distinguished Guests and Friends
Assalam-o-Alaikum, Good Morning and Bonjour
It is indeed a pleasure to welcome you today as we celebrate the success and the expansion of the French Medical Institute for Children.
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Speech by His Highness the Aga Khan at the Inauguration Ceremony of the Bujagali Hydropower Project 2012-10-08
Posted October 9th, 2012 by librarian-hdSpeech by His Highness the Aga Khan at the Inauguration Ceremony of the Bujagali Hydropower Project
08 October 2012
Bismillah-ir-Rahaman-ir-Rahim
Your Excellency, President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni of Uganda, and Your Excellency, the First Lady,
Your Excellency, President Pierre Nkurunziza of Burundi,
Your Excellency, President Salva Kiir of the Republic of South Sudan,
Your Excellency, President Mohamed Abdelaziz, President of Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic,
Your Excellency, Dr. Mohamed Gharib Bilal, Vice President of Tanzania,
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Speech by Prince Amyn Aga Khan - Partnership AKF Portugal & the Patriarch of Lisbon 2012-05-09
Posted May 10th, 2012 by librarian-hdYour Excellency the Minister of Solidarity and Social Security,
Your Eminence the Cardinal Patriarch of Lisbon,
Your Excellency Mr. Jorge Sampaio
Distinguished members of Parliament,
Members of the Diplomatic Corps
Professor Moreira
Ladies and Gentlemen,
It is a great honour and pleasure to be here in Lisbon today. We all feel particularly graced by the presence of Dom Jose Policarpo who has been such a formidable ally and friend of the Aga Khan Foundation in Portugal. Your Eminence, thank you for presence and your kind words.
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Speech by Hazar Imam at the Institutional Dinner in Singapore 2012-04-02
Posted April 18th, 2021 by librarian-hdSingapore April 2 2012
SPEECH BY HAZAR IMAM AT THE INSTITUTIONAL DINNER IN SINGAPORE
President Bana, Leaders of the Jamat
I would like first of all to express My very warm gratitude for this wonderful visit to the Far East.
Recent times have been difficult in the Muslim world. They have been difficult in Africa, they have been difficult for some of our Jamats. And in looking at this background, I ask myself where do we find partners? Partners to work with us, partners where we can share thinking, partners where we will find human resources who will work with us.
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Speech by His Highness the Aga Khan at the Urban Land Institute's annual conference leadership dinner
Posted October 28th, 2017 by librarian-hdThank you, Mr Rummell for your very generous and warm words.
Good evening Ladies and Gentlemen.
It is a distinct pleasure for me to be here this evening – and I would like to begin by expressing my renewed and deep thanks to the Urban Land Institute for presenting to me the J.C. Nichols prize at your 75th anniversary conference last Fall.
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Speech by His Highness the Aga Khan at the Urban Land Institute Annual Conference Leadership Dinner 2012-01-31
Posted March 13th, 2015 by librarian-hdThank you, Mr Rummell for your very generous and warm words.
Good evening Ladies and Gentlemen.
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Speech by His Highness the Aga Khan at the Ceremony Conferring the Honorary Doctorate at the University of Ottawa 2012-01-13
Posted January 2nd, 2015 by librarian-ldBismillah-ir-Rahman-ir-Rahim
Chancellor Labelle
President Rock
Excellencies
Distinguished Guests
Permettez-moi d'exprimer avant toute chose ma profonde reconnaissance pour l'insigne honneur que vous me faites.
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Speech by His Highness the Aga Khan at the Inauguration ceremony of the Dushanbe Serena hotel 2011-11-01
Posted August 16th, 2016 by librarian-hdBismillah-ir-Rahman-ir-Rahim
Your Excellency, President Emomali Rahmon, President of the Republic of Tajikistan
Your Excellency, Davlatali Saidov, Chairman of the State Committee on Investment
and Management of State Property
Honorable Ministers
Excellencies
Ladies and Gentlemen
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Speech by Prince Amyn Mohamed at the Official opening of Dushanbe Serena hotel 2011-11-01
Posted August 16th, 2016 by librarian-hdYour Excellency, President Rahmon,
Your Highness,
Chairman of the State Committee on Investment and Management of State
Property,
Honourable Ministers,
Excellencies,
Ladies and Gentlemen
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Speech by Prince Hussain at the Lions Clubs Intern.l-AKDN Tree Planting Initiative in Nairobi City Park 2011-10-19
Posted January 2nd, 2015 by librarian-ldDeforestation is one of the great challenges of our times. Scientists estimate about half of all the forests that once covered the Earth are gone. The United Nations Environment Programme tells us that 13 million hectares of forest are destroyed around the globe every year. At that rate a forest the size of Kenya would be cut in less than six years. A forest the size of Uganda – three…
This year is the UN International Year of Forests. It should remind us of the importance of forests in our lives.
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Speech by H.H. the Aga Khan at the Inauguration of the Heart and Cancer Centre at the AKU Hospital, Nairobi 2011-07-25
Posted June 20th, 2015 by librarian-hdBismillah-ir-Rahman-ir-Rahim
Your Excellency President Mwai Kibaki, President and Commander-in-Chief of the Defence Forces of the Republic of Kenya
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance, Honorable Uhuru Kenyatta
Minister for Medical Services, Honorable Professor Peter Anyang’ Nyong’o
Chief Executive Officer of Agence Francaise de Developpement, Mr. Zerah
Honorable Ministers, Your Excellencies
Members of the Corps Diplomatic
Chairman and Members of the Board of Trustees of the Aga Khan University
Distinguished Guests, Ladies and Gentlemen
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Speech by Mawlana Hazar Imam at the Uganda Jamati Institutional Dinner 2011-07-12
Posted March 25th, 2015 by librarian-hdSpeech by Mawlana Hazar Imam at the Uganda Jamati Institutional Dinner
Kampala Serena Hotel, Uganda
July 12, 2011
(President Huzur Mukhi Mohamed Lalani presented Hazar Imam a gift of an incense burner cover from Khorasan shaped in the form of a horse head)
Hazar Imam then said the following:
President Lalani, Institutional Leaders and volunteers,
I would like, first of all, to thank you for the magnificent evening you have offered Me and for this lovely gift of this Khorasani horse.
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Speech by Mawlana Hazar Imam at the Tanzania Jamati Institutional Dinner 2011-07-07
Posted September 28th, 2016 by librarian-hdSpeech by Hazar Imam at the Institutional Dinner in Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania
July 7, 2011
I would like to begin by telling you how immensely happy I am to be back in Tanzania and to be able to say to My Jamati leaders here and elsewhere that, Inshallah, in the months ahead, the years ahead, I will be able to visit the Jamat more often than I have in the past.
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Remarks by His Highness the Aga Khan upon receiving the 2011 UCSF Medal
Posted July 13th, 2017 by librarian-hdRemarks by His Highness the Aga Khan upon receiving the UCSF Medal in San Francisco, California
26 April 2011
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Prince Rahim's speech at the Inauguration of the new head office of the Kyrgyz Investment and Credit Bank
Posted September 30th, 2017 by librarian-hdYour Excellency President Otunbaeva
Honorable Speaker of Parliament
Excellencies
Distinguished guests
Today is truly a special day—and for several reasons.
First, it comes at a special time of the year.
The festival of Navroz is a time when we think about renewal and rejuvenation—when we welcome a new spring season in a spirit of hope and optimism.
And that spirit is very prevalent as we gather here today to mark the opening of a new head office for KICB—and as we celebrate the spirit of forward-looking progress in the Kyrgyz Republic.
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Speech by His Highness the Aga Khan at the 2010 Aga Khan Award for Architecture Ceremony
Posted February 4th, 2018 by librarian-hdBismillah-ir-Rahman-ir-Rahim
Your Highness the Emir
Your Highness Sheikha Moza bint Nasser
Excellencies
Distinguished Guests
Ladies and Gentlemen
As-salaam-o-aleikum
What a pleasure it is to greet this wonderful audience, including so many friends, old and new, who have helped shape this programme, and who are so essential to its future.
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