Minister of Foreign Affairs, Nikos Dendias, will travel tomorrow, Monday, January 31, to Ukraine, an in particular to the cities of Sartana and Mariupol, in order to hold meetings with Greek diaspora associations and local officials.
In the course of his stay in Sartana, the Minister of Foreign Affairs will lay a wreath at the Memorial to the residents of Sartana who fell in 2014.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs will visit the 8th Modern Greek Language Learning School. The event is expected to be attended, among others, by the Head of the civil-military Administration and members of the Greek diaspora from Sartana and Cermalik.
In addition, the Minister of Foreign Affairs will pay a visit to the Museum of History and Ethnography of the Greeks of the Azov Sea Region.
In the course of his visit to Mariupol, the Minister of Foreign Affairs will meet at the City Hall with the First Deputy Mayor, M. Kogut, as well as with the Chairman of Mariupol district council, S. Mahsma.
Afterwards, the Minister of Foreign Affairs will visit the Cultural Center of the Federation of Greek Communities of Ukraine (FGCU), where he will be welcomed by the President of the FGCU, Alexandra Protsenko-Pitsantzi, the Vice-Presidents of the FGCU as well as Presidents and members of Greek Associations.
The meeting is expected to be attended by the Rector of the State University of Mariupol, M. Trofymenko, Professors of the Greek Philology Faculty as well as Heads of United Territorial Communities.
Prior to his departing for Greece, the Minister of Foreign Affairs will also visit the premises of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission.