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Ladies and gentlemen,
It is a pleasure for me to be here this afternoon and I would like to thank you for inviting me to speak to this distinguished audience in Lisbon.
We are not very far away from the Belém Tower; a symbol of the extraordinary age of discovery which saw the emergence of the extensive overseas exploration that began the process of what we now see as globalisation. The trade boom that followed the voyages of Christopher Columbus and Vasco da Gama introduced a scale of interaction between different empires that had never been contemplated before.
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