Opening Ceremony -Gran Teatre del Liceu, La Rambla

Opening Ceremony

Presiding table

Roger Etchegaray

Cardinal, Holy See

Ricardo Maria Carles Gordo

Cardinal, Archbishop of Barcelona

Joan Clos

Mayor of Barcelona, Spain

Jordi Pujol

President of the Generalitat de Catalunya

Josep Piqu�

Minister of Foreing Affairs, Spain

Abuna Paulos

Patriarch of the Orthodox Church of Ethiopia

Israel Meir Lau

Chief Rabbi of Israel

Mohammed Amine Smaili

Muslim theologian, Morocco

Greeting between Mohammed Amine Smaili and Israel Meir Lau

Nichiko Niwano

President of Rissho Kosei Kai, Japan

Andrea Riccardi

Community of Sant�Egidio, Italy

Laurent Gbagbo

President of the Republic of �C�te d�Ivoire�

Jean Daniel

Director of the "Nouvel Observateur", France

Religious leaders attending the ceremony