Highlights of the Month – December 2016

The swearing-in ceremony for the 22nd Class of Embassy Attaché Candidates took place at the Foreign Ministry on November 30th in the presence of President Prokopis Pavlopoulos, Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias, Alternate Minister for European Affairs George Katrougalos, Deputy Minister for Greeks Abroad Terence Quick, Secretary General of the Presidency, …

POINT OF VIEW By Md. Shahidul Haque, Foreign Secretary of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh Chair-in-Office of the Global Forum on Migration and Development 2016   “Bangladesh will push for how migration is managed… and unleash the full social and economic potential of migration. And, in doing so, we will make migrants …

Emphasis on strengthening cross-border cooperation At the end of last month, the Chief of the Hellenic National Defence General Staff (HNDGS), Admiral Evangelos Apostolakis HN, paid an Official Visit to Germany, following an invitation extended to him by his counterpart, General Volker Wieker. After the official welcoming ceremony in Berlin, …

Further strengthening of bilateral military cooperation   From December 6th-9th, the Chief of Staff of the Egyptian Armed Forces, Lieutenant General Mahmoud Hegazy, visited Greece following an invitation extended to him by the Chief of the Hellenic National Defence General Staff, Admiral Evangelos Apostolakis HN. During this visit, the two …

“We are as accustomed to thinking of European civilization as the vanguard of the world that we forget that for much of human history, the European peninsula was at the receiving end of the miracles of the East. Over the millennia, innovations such as Mesopotamian agriculture, the Phoenician alphabet, Greek …