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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.
WASHINGTON – President Trump welcomed Greece’s new Ambassador to the US, Alexandra Papadopoulou, at the White House and said defense ties would get stronger as well after the renewal of a military agreement last year and with the US wanting to expand a military presence in Greece.
Papadopoulou, the former chief diplomatic adviser to Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis is the first woman to represent Greece in Washington, and as he also named a woman to be Greece’s symbolic President, easily ratified by the Parliament in January.
????The new Ambassador of Greece to the U.S., Mrs Alexandra Papadopoulou, has arrived in Washington DC and presented today her credentials to @POTUS Donald Trump.
Read the Ambassador’s CV: https://t.co/PO8os3USbi
(Official White House Photo by Joyce N. Boghosian) pic.twitter.com/E3574IJl6O— Embassy of Greece (@GreeceInUSA) February 7, 2020
Trump, who was upset the US Congress stepped in to prevent the sale of F-35 fighter jets to Turkey, which had bought a Russian S-400 missile defense that could compromise NATO, also cited long-standing US and Greek ties, with the countries allied in every major war.
