Twenty-six countries, among them Greece, have joined forces in a coordinated campaign for the return of their stolen antiquities, during an international conference in Cairo this week on recovering stolen ancient artefacts from abroad attended by antiquities officials, deputy culture ministers and museum directors.
A symposium will held at the “Giannos Kranidiotis” amphitheatre at the Greek Foreign Ministry titled: “Greek-American relations: Past, Presnet and future” is being organized by AHEPA HJ-10 Pericles on April 13th.
Greeks in Bishkek are in good health, but fear of a possible civil war“All 124 Greeks who reside in the capital of Kyrgyzstan, Bishkek, are in good healt” stated to ANA – MPA the president of the Greek Community of Kyrgyzstan, Ms. Olga Kuprianova.
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Alternate FM Droutsas visits Ecumenical Patriarch Vartholomeos
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Greek Alternate Foreign Minister Dimitris Droutsas met with Ecumenical Patriarch Vartholomeos at the Fanar on Wednesday whom he reassured that Greece and the Greek government are always by the side of the Ecumenical Patriarchate and the difficult task that it is carrying out.
Droutsas reassured the Patriarch that in talks he will be having in Ankara on Thursday, the Greek side will raise the issues of the Patriarchate’s rights, which also constitute “obligations of Turkey that emanate from the fact that Turkey is a candidate country for accession to the EU.”
On his part, Vartholomeis referred to the special importance attributed by the Patriarchate to the course of Greek-Turkish relations “both for its own existence and the stability and balance in the relations of the two neighbors and allied peoples.”
He also expressed the wish that Droutsas’s visit to Turkey “will be blessed and prepare, in the best possible way, the visit by the prime minister of Turkey to Athens.”
Lastly, he called on Droutsas to convey to Prime Minister George Paspandreou the “warm and always sincere interest of the Ecumenical Patriachate in the success of the government’s work and the overcoming of the difficulties that Greece is facing.”