Rhodes Forum - World Public Forum "Dialogue of Civilizations"

The Seventh Annual Session of the World Public Forum (WPF) “Dialogue of Civilizations” will be held on the Island of Rhodes (Greece) from the 8th to the 12th of October 2009.

Among the persons who have confirmed their participation in the Rhodes Forum this year are: President of the “Russian Railways” JSC, Founding President of the WPF “Dialogue of Civilizations” Vladimir Yakunin; Former Chancellor of Austria Alfred Gusenbauer; His Majesty King Adamtey of Ghana; Prince Sixtus Henry of Bourbon-Parma (Spain); Deputy Foreign Minister of Russia Alexander Saltanov; Former Secretary for Home Affairs, the Government of Hong Kong (China) Patrick Ho Chi-ping; Leading member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (India) Murli Manohar Joshi; President of the Brookings Institution (USA) Strobe Talbott; Ayatollah Mohammad-Ali Taskhiri (Iran); Co-Chairman, Association for International Mobility (USA) Brunson McKinley; Professor of Russian and European politics at the University of Kent (Great Britain) Richard Sakwa; Chairman, State Corporation “Bank for Development and Foreign Economic Affairs (Vnesheconombank)” (Russia) Vladimir Dmitriev; and others.