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03:59When you are talking of Avicenna, the contribution or the impact in the West, in Europe, is far
04:08greater than people might realise over here. Over there, people would know the great contribution
04:13of Avicenna, but not everybody would know where he came from or what his interests were or where
04:19they were taught. And that, say those who came here, is the real purpose of the place, not to
04:26display a glorious past, but to let people find themselves in it.
04:31What the museum or the centre is trying to bring is not only for someone who visits this
04:39place to be excited and to be proud about their past, but rather to find themselves in that
04:49place.
04:58The centre has made itself a meeting point. This year, it held the first international
05:03forum, drawing more than 400 scholars and religious leaders from over 50 countries, under a single
05:09theme, the path to peace, tolerance and enlightenment.
05:19There is also quite a diplomacy at work. This year, 900 artefacts looted from the ancient
05:24Termes, sculpted heads from the Christian era and fragments of wall painting, some more than
05:301500 years old, were recovered in London and brought home. They were handed over at a ceremony
05:35marking 690 years since the birth of Amir Temer.
05:43The message is a lot to do with the historical memory and might serve as a message for more
05:51and more such artefacts to head back to their home country.
05:56I love the fact that the centres work with Oxford and Cambridge and the close connection that
06:02the UK has, because some of the artefacts that are here were in the UK and are now where they
06:07should be, which is here. And I hope that's a sign not of the past, but of the future between
06:13our two countries.
06:16So what is it for? 60% of Uzbekistan is under 35. They are who the argument is aimed at.
06:27It is so important, particularly in the world today, where there is a tendency to deny the past
06:35in some quarters, in other parts of the world, where people think as if, you know, everything was
06:41contributed only by themselves, not by others. To be reminded that, you know, human civilisation is
06:47something to which all people have contributed and to which all people can make a contribution in the future.
06:54None of it happens quickly, and Professor Nizami is the first to say so.
07:00But I think it is also very important to remember that these are processes. You should not push the pace
07:08of things. What has not happened for centuries, cannot happen within a year or within two years.
07:16But unless you start it, it will never happen.
07:21Forget where you came from, he says, and you lose more than history.
07:28Just as you can have orphans, civilisations can also be orphans, if they forget who their parents were.
07:41This place remembers. The scholars are arriving, the delegations are coming, the doors are open.
07:46In a world that has forgotten how to talk to itself, Uzbekistan has built somewhere to start.
07:52We've been kicking forth concentration Troかtes.
07:52Okay.
07:59Thank you very much.
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