Forty-three years after being written in Greek, the doctoral thesis of the Australian Archbishop, Stylianos, has now been translated and published in English. A presentation of the English version took place at a Greek church in Melbourne, in the presence of officials and many Greek-Australians.
With instructions from the Parliamentary Speaker Dimitris Sioufas, the secretary-general of parliament, Nikos Stefanou, accompanied by other officials, visited Cyprus for meetings with their Cypriot counterparts on September 8 and 9.
A disagreement between the two major parties, governing New Democracy and main opposition PASOK, is dashing hopes that the Diaspora vote will be ratified within 2008. The September 9th disagreement broke out during a meeting at the Greek Foreign Ministry chaired by foreign minister Dora Bakoyannis.
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Mallias-Burns meeting
Γράφει ο/η Θεόφιλος Δουμάνης
12.09.08
The Greek ambassador in Washington, Alexandros Mallias, yesterday met with the new Undersecretary for Political Affairs, William Burns.
The meeting was held in a very cordial climate and discussions covered
a wide range of topics. Mallias had the opportunity to present Greek
positions on crucial issues, such as the name dispute with the Former
Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM), stressing the negative,
provocative, inflexible and unproductive stance taken by the leadership
of the neighbouring country. ?
They also discussed developments in the Cyprus issue, European
Union-Turkey relations, the role of the Ecumenical Patriarch
Bartholomew, as well as Greece?s role in the Middle East and,
generally, the Eastern Mediterranean.