Within the framework of the visit he is carrying out to the U.S., accompanying Foreign Minister Avramopoulos, Deputy Foreign Minister Kostas Tsiaras visited Holy Cross Seminary in Boston.
During his meeting with the leadership of the School, Mr. Tsiaras underscored the major effort to revitalize the relations between Greeks abroad and the Greek homeland, as well as the great importance of global Hellenism and the power it exerts across the range of its activities and interventions.
Mr. Tsiaras noted that the government wants to approach Hellenism abroad, which holds a very important and, in many cases, a leading role in the societies in which it is active.
Mr. Tsiaras later traveled to New York City, where he addressed a gathering of Greek Americans of the “Federation of Greek Associations of Greater New York,” stressing that “a very serious effort is being made by the whole government, by the whole society, to avoid the mistakes of the past and set in motion, with optimism and hope, a new day for our society, our economy, our homeland.”
Mr. Tsiaras also took the opportunity to visit Brooklyn’s Hellenic Classical Charter School, which is an American public elementary and junior high school that supports and promotes learning of the Greek language, though only 25% of its students are of Greek origin.
September 26, 2012