Ladies and Gentlemen I would like to thank the co-organizers of today's event, as it serves as a prelude to the Exhibition on Science, Art, and Technology in Beijing, as part of the Greece-China Year of Cultural Exchange. The presence of both sides in Athens, a city that symbolizes unity and cultivation in Science, Philosophy, and Art, sends a message of hope. It serves to encourage both Greece and China to innovate once again, in the 21st century, in the very same way that, for the first time in History, they innovated thousands of years ago, in the...