
ATHENS (TASS): Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias will travel to Ukraine on Monday to meet with representatives of the Greek diaspora, as well as the OSCE. This is stated in a message released on Sunday by the press service of the Greek Foreign Ministry.
According to her, Dendias will come to the village of Sartana and the city of Mariupol to hold meetings with representatives of ethnic Greeks and local officials. “The Minister of Foreign Affairs during his stay in Sartana will lay a wreath at the monument to the fallen inhabitants of Sartana in 2014. He will visit the 8th school of special study of the modern Greek language. It is expected that the event will be attended, in particular, by the chairman of the military-political department and the Greeks from Sartana and [village] Chermalyk. In addition, the Minister of Foreign Affairs will visit the Museum of the History and Ethnography of the Greeks of the Sea of Azov,” the message says.
During his visit to Mariupol, Dendias will meet with Deputy Head of the City Administration Mikhail Kohut and Chairman of the Mariupol District Council Stepan Makhsma at the Mayor’s Office, the press service noted. After that, the Minister of Foreign Affairs will go to the Cultural Center of the Federation of Greek Societies of Ukraine (FGOU), where he will be met by FGOU Chairman Oleksandra Protsenko-Pic-hadzhi, her deputies and m-embers of Greek societies.
“It is expected that the rector of Mariupol State University Nikolai Trofimenko, professors of the Department of Greek Philology, as well as chairmen of the united territorial communities will take part in the meeting. Before leaving for Greece, the Foreign Minister will also visit the office of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission,” the report says.
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