Over the past few years, we have set as our objective the expansion of the Greek Foreign Ministry’s role, in order for it to be also a ministry for production.Our efforts have produced results.In the market world, it is now known that the promotion of ...
My warm thanks for your inviting me to be here with you tonight. It is a pleasure to address such a distinguished audience. It is my pleasure to address all of you, who, with your entrepreneurial spirit and initiatives, are dynamically promoting Greek-U.S. economic relations.
It is my pleasure to welcome you to this event on the occasion of the presentation of the book “The Macedonian issue and Bulgaria – Classified documents 1950-1967”. This book brings to light for the first time classified documents of the Bulgarian state relating to ...
Την ευκαιρία να γνωρίσουν καλύτερα τον ελληνικό πολιτισμό μέσα από μοναδικά έργα τέχνης, που μας έχουν κληροδοτήσει ο πρόγονοί μας, έχουν οι πρόσφυγες και οι μετανάστες που ζουν στη χώρα μας, με ένα πρωτότυπο πρόγραμμα που οργανώνεται στο Μουσείο Κυκλαδικής Τέχνης, σε συνεργασία με την ...
The International Community has invested a lot in Afghanistan since 2001, when the country drew, under tragic circumstances, global attention.
It is a pleasure and honour to speak before the UN Security Council. The OSCE is the largest and most inclusive regional arrangement under Chapter VIII of the UN Charter. When times are as challenging as they are, close co-operation between the Security Council and ...
I would like to thank the Brookings Institution and particularly Strobe Talbott for their invitation. It is an honor for me to address such a distinguished audience. Let me begin with the obvious. I think we all agree that 2009 is a critical year. It ...
It is a special pleasure to speak before the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly. It goes without saying that as a parliamentarian, I fully appreciate the significance of this body to the work of the OSCE as a whole.
We are continuing the main plenary session with a panel discussion on “NATO, Russia, Oil, Gas and the Middle East: The Future of European Security.” Many very interesting things were said this morning. I think we are all looking forward to an open and frank ...
Speech at the European Policy Centre in Brussels
Speech at the Youth EPP Seminar: “European Elections 2009, Youth Participation, Youth Campaigning”, Zappeion
It is a pleasure to address the Permanent Council of the OSCE for the first time as Chairperson-in-Office. Greece assumes the OSCE Chairmanship at a time when the quest for security in our region has become ever more complex, and when rapid, unpredictable change seems ...
Along with my warmest thanks to our hosts, my dear friend and colleague Alex Stubb and his team, for their warm hospitality and excellent organization, I would like to congratulate them for their unwavering commitment in guiding the OSCE in turbulent times. Congratulations are also ...
It is a great pleasure for me to participate in the 16th Ministerial Council of the OSCE taking place in Helsinki – our organization’s original point of departure. We have today an opportunity to take stock of our achievements and recalibrate our compass.Along with my ...
“To err from the right path is common to all mankind,” Sophocles wrote. We meet here in this Assembly, to limit the damage from the worst of those errors and live up to the mandate of the United Nations. My government subscribes wholeheartedly to those ...
