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Meropi Kyriacou Honored as TNH Educator of the Year
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
What was absent from last Thursday’s televised debate between the two U.S. presidential candidates was the foreign policy discussion.
The references made to Russia, China, and Iran were made in the context of the influence that these countries have on the elections, and not in the context of foreign policy.
This is, in part, the result of the isolationism – ‘America first’ – that President Trump proclaimed regarding the United States’ role on the international stage, where its presence in international organizations is shrinking steadily.
There were only a few observers that noted the omission(s) and pointed out the 'hot' issues in the world that the two candidates should have addressed. One of these few was Roger Cohen, a leading New York Times commentator who usually writes from Europe. In his column a few days ago, he listed 25 areas of crisis around the world and some keywords that were not mentioned in the discussion, from Syria to the word ‘alliance.’
However, there was one critical point that was missing from Cohen’s list: the Greek-Turkish crisis – the almost daily provocation of the encroachment on the national sovereignty of one NATO member state by another, which can lead to a military clash between the two countries.
This is disturbing for us Greek-Americans.
Once upon a time, for example, when the Skopje conflict had reached a critical point and its entry into the EU was being discussed, then-Foreign Minister Dora Bakoyannis, in the government of Costas Karamanlis, had undertaken an international information campaign that included full-page ads in major foreign newspapers and other media outlets to persuade public opinion and policy makers. At the same time, she had activated Hellenes abroad, leading personalities and Diaspora organizations, to put pressure on their local governments.
Let no one underestimate the influence they have.
This crisis with Turkey is the biggest crisis that Greece has faced since the Turkish invasion of Cyprus. And yet, it is restricted to small print and the back pages – with the exception of a few newspapers in the EU – in the international and American press.
The internationalization of the crisis is primarily a matter for the Foreign Ministry, which, speaking objectively, has always been at the forefront of these issues.
It can – and must – undertake, even now, an information campaign for international public opinion.
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza (AP) — An international team of doctors visiting a hospital in central Gaza was prepared for the worst.
ATHENS - The tragedy of the Tempi train collision is a much greater issue than an opportunity for parties to table a motion of censure against the government, but the opposition parties used it anyway "to turn society's pain into a tool to strike at the government and me personally," Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Thursday night in parliament.
ATHENS - PASOK-KINAL leader Nikos Androulakis, speaking at the Hellenic Parliament on Thursday, emphasized that there is "an established belief among the Greek people" that the government "operates as a well-oiled machine of corruption, cover-up, and propaganda.
ATHENS — Greece’s center-right government survived a motion of no-confidence late Thursday that was brought by opposition parties over its handling of the country’s deadliest rail disaster a year ago.
ASTORIA – Greek Minister of the Interior Niki Kerameus offered an informative presentation on postal voting in the upcoming European Union elections for Greek citizens in a well-attended event held at the St.