PRESS RELEASE MARCH 2024 The winter season that we have just left behind, November 2023 to March 2024, has been very hectic in our director’s international activities. Below is the list of in-person participations in international fora. November 2023 Dr. Yiorghos Leventis took part, upon invitation, in the 7th Southeast…
Read MoreDr. Yiorghos Leventis & Mr. Elias Hadjikoumis In 2014, brother nations (“bratskie narodi”) Russia and Ukraine, united by common cultures, mentalities, customs, traditions and closely related languages, became enemies. They have remained so for eight years now. The main reason behind this negative development has been the geopolitical game between…
Read MoreThe current month marks two landmark events for Serbians. The first relates to the not too distant past, a lasting wound that lingers on the nation’s collective memory: June 10th marks the twenty-first anniversary, rather commemoration for the thousands of victims one should say, of the end of the horrible…
Read MoreHamlet Chipashvili, a well-known Georgian political scientist and for long years senior advisor to late Eduard Shevardnadze (1928-2014) predicted last October the gradual loss of the autonomous region of Ajaria to Turkey. According to Chipashvili, the financial activity of Ankara on the Georgian Black Sea coast has gone far beyond…
Read MoreInternational Security Forum Director, Prof. Dr. Yiorghos Leventis, participated in the eighth EU Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Conference held at Palais d’ Egmont, Brussels on the 13th and 14th December 2019. The EU Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Conference is the annual flagship event of the European network of independent non-proliferation and disarmament…
Read MoreIn the report of the Cypriot Minister of Defence, presented last week to the Parliamentary Committee on Finance in the framework of the state budget for 2020, special attention is paid to the prospects for the development of military cooperation between Nicosia and Washington. A special working group is envisaged…
Read MoreIf no solution is found, the troubled Syrian province could turn into an Al-Qaeda Caliphate Idlib is bleeding. Radical Islamists, who lost the war in Syria, are trying to retain power in the country’s north-western province at the cost of civilian lives. This is the final obstacle to attaining peace…
Read MoreMedia attention caused by the explosion in the occupied part of Cyprus in early July, finally eased down. Many controversial statements were made. Unfortunately, it seems that no account of the events offered, sorted out the causes of the incident in detail. Everyone seemed to be unworried by the allegations…
Read MoreSince the middle of last week many mass media outlets around the globe discuss the resolution of UN General Assembly (UNGA) about the Mauritius. The relevant resolution calls Great Britain to give up control over the Chagos Islands in the Indian Ocean. London has been occupying the Chagos Archipelago Islands…
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In an open letter addressed to Jeremy Hunt, Foreign Secretary, the London based UK charity registered organization Lobby for Cyprus (LfC) accuses Sir Alan Duncan, Minister of State for Europe and the Americas, Foreign & Commonwealth Office, of ‘knowingly misleading Parliament’ over the issue of sovereignty in Cyprus southern waters.…
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