Many distinguished visitors came to this Academy since its foundation, 230 years ago. But it would be very wrong to consider you as just one more among them. Not only you have been, since 1957, Prince Aga Khan IV, the 49th Imam of the Ismailis, and thus the religious leader of a community, the Ismaili Community, that the Portuguese Nation learned to regard with such a high esteem, but – in the exercise of your exalted office -, you have displayed a outstanding talent as a statesman, a diplomat and an organizer, besides being a man of faith and culture.
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