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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 — Security in the Eastern Mediterranean is an issue that concerns the European Union as a whole, not just Greece and Cyprus, European Council President Charles Michel said on Tuesday, in joint statements with Greek Prime Minister Mitsotakis after their meeting at the Maximos Mansion in Athens.
Regarding migration, Michel said that he wanted to see "the reality we face" with his own eyes, noting that "we understand the responsibility Greece has undertaken in the face of such a violent event."
Michel praised the Greek government "for its ability to provide effective answers in such a short space of time" and referred to the EU's mobilisation to help Greece handle migration.
He also referred to the upcoming European Council, which will focus on the situation in the Eastern Mediterranean and EU-Turkey relations.
"We have the issue of security and stability in the Eastern Mediterranean; it is not the affair of Greece and Cyprus alone but an EU issue," Michel explained, stressing that there was European "because we believe that all the member-states must be respected and this is the meaning of my presence here today, to repeat this message."
On the ways in which Europe will address Turkey's actions, he said: "We must work closely together and see how we will progress in a dual way. On one hand, we should be strict and clear in order for the principles that are important for Greece and Cyprus to be respected and, on the other hand, we must be ready to open our arms and show that a positive agenda can exist if there is common volition for these principles to be respected. It is an important issue that will be discussed at the EU Summit on 24 and 25 September and we will prepare in order to demonstrate the EU's unity and strength, because security and stability are a strategic interest of the EU."
Michel also referred to the need for a multilateral meeting of all the countries of the region, "apart from the bilateral dialogue," where issues of security, maritime affairs, economic cooperation, energy and others can be discussed, adding that EU is examining this proposal and will discuss it, as the need for it exists, while he called for "a sincere volition to proceed with an agenda that is more positive and predictable than it has been recently."
Finally,he referred to the four-day EU summit in July, saying this aimed to send a message of optimism: "We took action and committed 1,800 billion euros to addressing the pandemic united. We will cooperate better in the future to face the crisis and to recover as soon as possible" he concluded.
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.
BRISTOL, Tenn. (AP) — It was in the den that Karen Goodwin most strongly felt her son’s presence: On the coffee table were his ashes, inside a clock with its hands forever frozen at 12:35 a.
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.
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — A bus carrying worshippers on a long-distance trip from Botswana to an Easter weekend church gathering in South Africa plunged off a bridge on a mountain pass Thursday and burst into flames as it hit the rocky ground below, killing at least 45 people, authorities said.