Deputy Foreign Minister Kostas Tsiaras held a press conference yesterday, 31 October 2010, for Greek journalists in Germiston, South Africa.
The main subject of the press conference was the creation of the new World Council of Hellenes Abroad (SAE), with the aim of forging it into an voice for all Hellenes abroad.
Mr. Tsiaras also noted that the new SAE will be self-funding, self-organized, and provide vertical representation.
The primary role of the new SAE, Mr. Tsiaras stressed, is to promote issues of concern to global Hellenism and to revamp relations between Greeks abroad and the Greek homeland.
November 1, 2012