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Athens Macedonian News Agency: News in English, 15-10-18
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[01] President Pavlopoulos meets IAO delegates, discusses refugee crisis
[01] President Pavlopoulos meets IAO delegates, discusses refugee crisis
ANA-MPA -- President of the Hellenic Republic Prokopis Pavlopoulos
on Sunday stressed the need to end sources of conflict in the Middle
East and deal with the region's refugees, as he received members of the
International Secretariat and Committee Chairpersons and Rapporteurs of
the Interparliamentary Assembly on Orthodoxy (IAO) at the presidential
mansion.
"One understands how important the message of Orthodoxy is today
for Europe and the entire world, when there are even in our country
phenomena of humanitarian crisis and hotbeds of war, especially in the
Middle East, that create waves of refugees that must be dealt with from
the standpoint of protecting human worth," he said. Pavlopoulos noted
that, since 1993, the IAO has contributed greatly to the formation
of the European architecture built on three pillars: ancient Greece,
through freedom and culture, Rome, through the state and justice, and
Christianity, including Orthodoxy, through the values of solidarity
and social justice. Deputy Foreign Minister Yiannis Amanatidis, the
IAO general secretary, assured him that the IAO was making efforts to
stop the disastrous repercussions of wars in the surrounding region,
while IAO Chairman Sergey Popov stressed that its members strenuously
defend the ideals of Christianity and Christian values. The members of
the IAO are currently in Greece to attend the International Conference on
"Religious and Cultural Pluralism and Peaceful Coexistence in the Middle
East" organised by the foreign ministry, which is taking place in Athens
on October 18-20.
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