The growing negative image of our country abroad, the unity of the dispersed Greek people and the growth of solidarity among Greek people and natives in the countries where expatriates reside is the goal posed by the Expatriate of Hellenism Department for the future.
The international remembrance day of the Greek-Pontic genocide will be honored in New York with public events and the hoisting of the Greek Pontic flag and the Greek flag at the Bowling Green Park in Manhattan (on the corner of State Street and Broadway).
The New Board of Directors of the Greek Community in Holland has been elected after elections were held on May the 2nd. Mr. Paul Kerasavvopoulos was reelected president while the synthesis of the remaining board is:
Anna Vagena, one of the most important contemporary Greek actresses, will give a series of presentations in German and Sweden cities, during the second forthnight of May 2010.
The 28th Sydney Greek Festival will continue in the following days with concerts, book presentations, Greek cooking and other festivities, organized by the Greek Orthodox Community in New South Wales.
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Obama policy on national issues
Σύνταξη/επιμέλεια από τον/την Θεόφιλος Δουμάνης
The Obama government’s policy on Greek and Cyprian issues was discussed last week at Greece’s Press Room in New York, by two analysts of the Institute CATO in Washington, along with newspaper “Eleftherotypia” correspondent in the American capital, Dimitri Dima and the executive director of the Greek-American Institute, Niko Larigaki.
During his inaugurative speech N. Larigaki made a comparison of the pre – election statements and stance of President Obama and the after the elections stance of his government, on Turkey, Greece and Cyrpus issues. He noticed an inconsistency by the American government stance today. He mentioned Obama’s visit to Turkey, the second one since he assumed the presidency and his speech to the Turkish House with references to Cyprus and the Patriarchate, the negative remarks by the American ambassador in Cyprus on the invasion and occupation of Cyprus and the corrective statements by the American Defence minister. He went to say that for president Obama, Turkey is the “absolute alley”.
The question is what we, the Greek-American community, is doing and our stance.