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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.
ATHENS – “Yesterday’s statement by the head of the Tripoli government regarding the signature of the memorandum between his government and Turkey is unfortunate, to say the least, as he is striving to compare two entirely different situations,” diplomatic sources said on Thursday.
“During last night’s speech, the head of Tripoli government Abdulhamid Dbeibah referred to a difference between Greece and Libya in terms of the delimitation of the EEZ between the two countries and afterwards he added that Libya will proceed with exploration based on the Turkish-Libyan memorandum and that his side will not concede Libya’s rights”.
The same sources noted that Dbeibah “is striving to compare two entirely different situations, one that is fully legal and one that is illegal, invalid and groundless”.
Specifically, the same sources pointed out that “until early 2011, the negotiations between Greece and Libya for the delimitation of the maritime zones were underway according to the International Law of the Sea and they had significantly progressed, while only one small difference remained to be bridged. The specific negotiations were interrupted due to the regime overthrow in Tripoli. Almost a decade later, in 2019, the then government of Tripoli and Turkey agreed a legal and political monstrosity which constituted a clear violation of the fundamental principles of the Law of the Sea, as it ignored the existence of Greek islands, such as Crete”.
The specific agreement, the diplomatic sources underlined, “was condemned by a large number of states, including all the EU member-states. Additionally, it was never ratified by the Libyan parliament. So, there is no comparison between the two cases and nobody is entitled to try to justify an illegal act by citing something entirely unrelated.”
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A Filipino villager has been nailed to a wooden cross for the 35th time to reenact Jesus Christ’s suffering in a brutal Good Friday tradition he said he would devote to pray for peace in Ukraine, Gaza and the disputed South China Sea.
ALBANY – New York State Senate Deputy Leader Michael Gianaris, Senator Andrew Gounardes, and Senator James Skoufis honored Greek Independence at the State Capitol on March 26, welcoming His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros, who offered an invocation before the Senate.
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LOS ANGELES – The UCLA Stavros Niarchos Foundation Center for the Study of Hellenic Culture presents a captivating evening with acclaimed singer-songwriter Alkinoos Ioannidis, who will perform at UCLA’s Schoenberg Hall on Saturday, April 27, 7:30 PM, in a solo concert.
ATHENS - The "OLYMPOS - Global Spiritual Center" Association presents on Saturday, April 6, at 6:00 pm, at the "Antonis Tritsis" Amphitheatre of the Cultural Center of the Municipality of Athens, 50, Acadimias Street, the truly ingenious funding proposal for the construction of Heptapolis in the wider area of Delphi, entitled "World Green Taxation Fund".