| Serguei PANKOVSKI, former co-dean of the EHU French-Belarusian Department of Political Sciences and European Studies
Remarks at the Inauguration Ceremony of E.H.U. International
Vilnius, Lithuania, Thursday, June 9, 2005 (In English) So as not to exceed the time allocated to me, I will try to talk about most important, principal things. First of all, I would like to express my deep gratitude to the French Government, France and Embassy of France in Minsk, in particular. I assure you that this high-ranked award has excited me a lot, since the years that I spent at the French-Belarusian Department with my colleagues from France, Minsk, and other countries, and with our students are perhaps the most precious years in my life. It is exactly because of this that I feel a little bit uneasy today. There is no secret here. I have never been alone. I have always been working in international teams, and the contribution of my colleagues often deserved much greater appreciation than that of mine. I would like to thank everyone sincerely and from the bottom of my heart.
(In French) Pour ne pas depasser le temps de parole, je vais essayer de dire ce que je trouve le plus important, le plus essentiel. Tout d’abord, je veux exprimer ma profonde reconnaissance au Gouvernement francais, a la France et surtout a l’Ambassade de la Republique Francaise a Minsk. Je veux aussi vous avouer que cette haute distinction m’a profondement emu parce que pour moi les annees passees a la faculte franco-bielorusse avec mes collegues et mes amis de la France, de Minsk mais aussi d’autres pays et avec nos etudiants sont peut-etre les plus cheres de ma vie. Et c’est pour ca aussi qu’aujourd’hui je me sens un peu gene. Il n’y a aucun secret. Je n’etais jamais seul. Je travaillais toujours dans les equipes internationales de collegues dont la contribution meritait tres souvent beaucoup plus que la mienne. Et je veux, de tout mon coeur et tres sincerement, les remercier tous.
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