International Year of Crystallography 2014

Opening Ceremony, UNESCO, Paris, 20-21 January, 2014:

After opening addresses by Ban Ki-moon (Secretary-General of the United Nations by video message), Irina Bokova (Director-General of UNESCO), Gautam R. Desiraju (President of the International Union of Crystallography - IUCr), and Soumaia Benkhaldoun (Vice-Minister of Higher Education and Research of Morocco), the following speakers from various International and National Organizations presented their welcoming remarks:

From left to right (photo courtesy of R. Oberti): Alain Fuchs (President of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique -- CNRS), Nicole Moreau (Past-President of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry  -- IUPAC; Chair of the Organizing Committee for the International Year of Chemistry 2011), John Dudley (President of the European Physical Society – EPS; Chair of the Steering Committee for the International Year of Light 2015), Walter Maresch (President of the International Mineralogical Association -- IMA), Claude Lecomte (Vice-President of IUCr - From the IUCr Initiative in Africa to the IUCr-UNESCO OpenLabs).

 

 

 

 

 

 

Walter Maresch addressing the 800 attendees in the UNESCO building (photos courtesy R. Oberti, left, and N. Hougenade, right)

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