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Permanent Representative Of Greece To The United Nations ...
The Permanent Representative of Greece to the United Nations ( el, Μόνιμος αντιπρόσωπος της Ελλάδας στον Οργανισμό Ηνωμένων Εθνών) is the Permanent Representative of the Greek government to the Headquarters of the United Nations in New York City. References {{Reflist United Nations New York Greece Greece,, or , romanized: ', officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the southern tip of the Balkans, and is located at the crossroads of Europe, Asia, and Africa. Greece shares land borders with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Permanent Representative
A permanent representative is a diplomat who is the head of a country’s diplomatic mission to an international organisation. Organizations that receive permanent representatives from their member states include the United Nations, the World Trade Organization, NATO, the European Union, the African Union, the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, and the Organization of American States. Permanent representatives can be sent to subunits or field offices of an organization. For example, in addition to the permanent representatives sent to the United Nations headquarters in New York City, UN member states also appoint permanent representatives to other UN offices, such as those in Geneva, Nairobi, and Vienna. Permanent representatives are often informally described as ''ambassadors''. However, although a permanent representative typically holds the diplomatic rank of an ambassador, because they are accredited to an international organisation the official title is permanent represent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexis Liatis
The Embassy of Greece in Washington, D.C. is the Hellenic Republic's diplomatic mission to the United States. It is located at 2217 Massachusetts Avenue, Northwest, Washington, D.C. in the Embassy Row neighborhood, near Sheridan Circle. The Embassy complex consists of three buildings. The current ambassador is Alexandra Papadopoulou (since 2020) and first woman in this post. History After the War of Independence, which started in 1821, Greece was declared an independent state but it was not until 3 February 1830 that the Independence was recognized by the Great Powers with the signing of the Protocol of London. On 7 May 1832 Otto of Greece arrived in Nafplion and Greece became a Kingdom. The United States, however, recognized the Greek state only in 1833. In December 1837 a commercial treaty was signed, which regulated trade between the two countries. The first Greek consulate to be established was that of New Orleans, in 1866. Records indicate that Nicolas Benachi was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Konstantinos Mitsotakis
Konstantinos Mitsotakis ( el, Κωνσταντίνος Μητσοτάκης, ; – 29 May 2017) was a Greek politician who was 7th Prime Minister of Greece from 1990 to 1993. He graduated in law and economics from the University of Athens. His son, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, was elected as the Prime Minister of Greece following the 2019 Greek legislative election. Family and personal life Mitsotakis was born on 31 October 1918 in Halepa suburb, Chania, Crete, into an already powerful political family, linked to the distinguished statesman Eleftherios Venizelos on both sides. His grandfather (1845–1898), a lawyer, journalist and short-time MP of then Ottoman-ruled Crete, founded the Liberal Party, then "''Party of the Barefeet''" () with Venizelos, and married the latter's sister, Katigo Venizelou, Constantine's grandmother. The 1878 Pact of Halepa, granting an Ottoman Crete a certain level of autonomy, was signed in his very home. His father (1883–1944), also MP for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antonios Exarchos
Antonios or Antónios is a Greek masculine given name that is a variant of Antonis, as well as a surname. Notable people with this name include the following: Given name *Antonios Antoniadis (born 20th-century), Greek physician * Antonios Antonopoulos (1805–1887), Greek politician *Antonios Aronis (born 1957), Greek water polo player * Antonios Asimakopoulos (born 1976), Greek basketball player *Antonios Eparchos (1491–1571), Greek humanist, soldier and poet * Antonios Fokaidis (born 1989), Greek swimmer *Antonios Georgantas (1799 - 1884), Greek Major General *Antonios Georgoulis (born 1928), Greek wrestler * Antonios Giannoulas (born 1976), Greek boxer *Antonios Gioulbas (born 1986), Greek swimmer *Antonios Gryllos (1917 – 1993), Greek wrestler * Antonios Kalamogdartis (1810–1856), Greek politician *Antonios Karyofyllis (1904 – 1989), Greek athlete *Antonios Katinaris (1931 – 1999), Greek musician *Antonios Keramopoulos (1870 – 1960), Greek archaeologist * Antonios Ko ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Konstantinos Zepos
Konstantinos or Constantinos (Κωνσταντίνος, ''Konstantínos'') is a Greek male given name. * Konstantinos (born 1972), occultist * Konstantinos "Kosta" Barbarouses (born 1990), New Zealand footballer * Konstantinos Chalkias (born 1974), Greek footballer * Konstadinos Gatsioudis (born 1973), Greek athlete * Konstantinos Gavras (born 1933), Greek-French filmmaker * Konstantinos Kanaris (1790–1877), Greek admiral and statesman, former Prime Minister of Greece * Konstantinos Karamanlis (1907–1998), former Prime Minister and President of Greece * Konstantinos Kenteris (born 1973), Greek athlete (sprinter) and Olympic gold medalist * Konstantinos Koukodimos (born 1969), former Greek athlete and politician * Konstantinos Logothetopoulos (1878–1961), former Prime Minister of Greece * Kostas Mitroglou (born 1988), Greek footballer * Konstantinos Mitsotakis (1918–2017), former Prime Minister of Greece * Konstantinos Paparrigopoulos (1815– ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andreas Papandreou
Andreas Georgiou Papandreou ( el, Ανδρέας Γεωργίου Παπανδρέου, ; 5 February 1919 – 23 June 1996) was a Greek economist, politician and a dominant figure in Greek politics, known for founding the political party PASOK, which he led from 1974 to 1996. He served three terms as the 3rd and 8th Prime Ministers of Greece. Papandreou's party win in the 1981 election was a milestone in the political history of Greece, since it was the first time that the elected government had a predominantly socialist political program. The achievements of his first two governments include the official recognition of the leftist and communist resistance groups of the Greek Resistance ( EAM/ELAS) against the Axis occupation, the establishment of the National Health System and the Supreme Council for Personnel Selection ( ASEP), the passage of Law 1264/1982 which secured the right to strike and greatly improved the rights of workers, the constitutional amendment of 1985–1986 w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nikolas Katopodis
Nikolas is a given name and a surname. Notable people with the name include the following: Given name Music *Nikolas Asimos (1949–1988), Greek composer and singer * Nikolas Caoile, American conductor * Nikolas Metaxas (born 1988), American singer and songwriter *Nikolas Papamitrou (born 1995), American hip hop record producer known by his stage name Papamitrou * Nikolas Schreck, American singer/songwriter, musician, author, film-maker and Tantric Buddhist religious teacher *Nikolas Sideris (born 1977), Greek composer *Nikolas Kostantinos Venetoulis (1936–1998), American record producer known as Nick Venet Sports * Nikolas Asprogenous (born 1986), Cypriot footballer *Nikolas Berger (born 1974), Austrian beach volleyball player *Nikolas Besagno (born 1988), American soccer player *Nikolas Gelavis (born 1929), Australian rules footballer known as Nick Gelavis *Nikolas Ketner (born 1991), Czech ice hockey player *Nikolas Ledgerwood (born 1985), Canadian soccer player *Nikolas Lewis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georgios Papoulias
Georgios Papoulias ( el, Γεώργιος Παπούλιας; 19 May 1927, Athens – 11 September 2009, Kolonaki) was a Greek politician and diplomat. Papoulias briefly served as the Foreign Minister of Greece on two separate terms in 1989 and 1990. Papoulias was born on 19 May 1927. He graduated from the Law School of the University of Athens, followed by studies at the Higher School of Commerce and Army service in 1950–1951 with the rank of Second Lieutenant. Papoulias entered the Greek Diplomatic Corps in 1955. His first foreign posting came in 1957, when he was sent to the Greek embassy in New Delhi. From there he was transferred to Bonn, where he remained until 1964 when he moved to the permanent Greek legation in Geneva. After a domestic stint as head of the Foreign Ministry's Political Affairs Department, in 1971 he became ambassador to France and Greece's Permanent Delegate to the UNESCO. Following the fall of the Greek military junta in 1974, he became Permanent Repre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adamantios Androutsopoulos
Adamantios Androutsopoulos ( el, Αδαμάντιος Ανδρουτσόπουλος; 20 August 1919 – 10 November 2000) was a lawyer and professor. He held various ministerial posts under the Greek military junta of 1967–1974 and was finally appointed 168th Prime Minister of Greece from 1973 to 1974 by junta strongman Dimitrios Ioannides. He was born in Psari, Messenia, Greece in 1919. He studied at the University of Athens and at the University of Chicago. He never graduated from Chicago. He was Finance Minister (21 April 1967 – 26 August 1971) and Minister for the Interior (26 August 1971 – 10 May 1973) during the Papadopoulos military régime. When Papadopoulos was overthrown in 1973 by Ioannides, Androutsopoulos was appointed Head of Government (25 November 1973 – 23 July 1974), and also Finance Minister (25 November 1973 – 26 July 1974), until the return of democratic government in 1974 during the ''Metapolitefsi The Metapolitefsi ( el, Μεταπολίτε ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Denis Karayannis
Denis may refer to: People * Saint Denis of Paris, 3rd-century Christian martyr and first bishop of Paris * Denis the Areopagite, Biblical figure * Denis, son of Ampud (died 1236), baron in the Kingdom of Hungary * Denis the Carthusian (1402–1471), theologian and mystic * Denis of Hungary (c. 1210–1272), Hungarian-born Aragonese knight * Denis of Portugal (1261–1325), king of Portugal * Denis, Lord of Cifuentes (1354–1397) * Denis the Little (c. 470 – c. 544), Scythian monk * Denis Handlin (born 1951), Australian entrepreneur and business executive * Denis, Palatine of Hungary, lord in the Kingdom of Hungary * Denis (harpsichord makers), French harpsichord makers * Denis Perera (1930-2013), general, Commander of the Sri Lanka Army from 1977-1981 * Louis Juchereau de St. Denis (1676–1744), French-Canadian explorer of French Louisiana and Spanish Texas * Denis Villeneuve (born 1967), Canadian filmmaker Other uses * Denis (given name) * Denis (surname) * "Denis" ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georgios Papadopoulos
Geórgios Papadopoulos (; el, Γεώργιος Παπαδόπουλος ; 5 May 1919 – 27 June 1999) was a Greeks, Greek military officer and political leader who ruled Greece as a military dictator from 1967 to 1973. He joined the Hellenic Army, Royal Hellenic Army during the Second World War and resisted the Greco-Italian War, 1940 Italian invasion. Later on, he allegedly became an active Collaboration with the Axis powers, Axis collaborator with the Security Battalions, although this claim has been disputed by historians. He remained in the army after the war and rose to the rank of colonel. In April 1967, Papadopoulos and a group of other mid-level army officers overthrew the democratic government and established a Greek junta, military junta that lasted until 1974. Assuming dictatorial powers, he led an Authoritarianism, authoritarian, Anti-communism, anti-communist and Ultranationalism, ultranationalist regime which eventually ended the Kingdom of Greece, Greek monarchy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
