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Press Release: Schiller Institute in Berlin: Hopeful Deliberation in the Face of War and Chaos

Moderator: Stephan Ossenkopp
Helga Zepp-LaRouche (Germany), Founder of the Schiller Institute: “We will not let European 0civilization go under!”
Professor Zhang Wei (China), Director of the China Institute at Fudan University: “Building a Profitable Multipolar World Order”
Pino Arlacchi (Italy), former UN Deputy Secretary-General: “Are we sure that the coming economic storm will be global?”
Chas Freeman (USA), former U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia: “The Birth, Death, and Prospective Rebirth of the World Order” (via video)
Sanjay Tripathi (India), former senior official in Indian ministries: “The Urgent Need for a New Global Security”
Dr. Wolfgang Bittner (Germany, author: “Sovereignty, Neutrality, Culture”

Moderator: Elke Fimmen
Jacques Cheminade (France), former presidential candidate, President of Solidarité et Progrès: “A New Beginning to Prevent the Extinction of Humanity”
Jürgen Schöttle (Germany), Engineer: “Economical Energy Supply and Sovereignty Are Inseparable”
Patrick Baab (Germany), German journalist and author
Retired Lieutenant Colonel Ralph Bosshard (Switzerland), former military advisor to the OSCE Secretary General
Dr. Jasminka Simić (Serbia), Editor, Radio-Television Serbia, Belgrade: “The China-inspired new form of cooperation among the states of the Global South from a Serbian perspective”
Dr. Theodore Postol (USA) , Professor Emeritus of Science, Technology, and National Security at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (via video)

Almira Emiri (Albania) – Albanian concert pianist
Irina Zhuravleva (Russia) – Soprano
Fan Xu (China) – Chinese baritone
Almishba (Bulgaria) and Bulgarian singer,
Martin Kaptein – Russian pianist and author; Mozart, Fantasy in C minor, K. 475
Gabriele Gysi – Actress and author
Andrea Röschke Video presentation (Iran)
Dr. Bittner (Germany), Autor, Poems
Dr. Mostafa Maleki (Iran) – Iranian diplomat and Germanist: “Hafiz and Goethe, a spiritual encounter between Persia and Germany”
Artists’ Association Europe and Asia in Germany e.V. (Germany/China): “The Song of Lotus Picking”
Poetry from Various Cultures

Sunday, May 31

Moderator: Rainer Apel
Harley Schlanger (USA), 250th Anniversary of the American Revolution
H.E. Eskindir Yirga Asfaw (Ethiopia), Ambassador of Ethiopia
H.E. Majid Nili (Iran), Ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Iran
Daud Azimi (Afghanistan), Board Member of the Afghan National Peace Front (PNF)
Video message from a group of young Ugandans

Moderator: Claudio Celani
Charles Onana (France/Cameroon), political scientist and author
Purnima Anand (India), President of the BRICS Forum India
Abbey Makoe (South Africa), journalist, founder of the Global South Media Network (via video)
Jérôme Ravenet (France), Professor of Philosophy, Sinologist (via video)
Wolfgang Riess (Germany), “The Future of the Automotive Industry”
Mrutjuanjai Mishra (India), Journalist (Commentator for the Times of India)