Greece will not submit to Turkish aggression nor will it surrender Cyprus to the current status quo but will seek to reunite the island based on international law and UN resolutions, said the President of the Hellenic Republic, Katerina Sakellaropoulou during a reception at the Presidential Mansion on Sunday on the occasion of the 48th anniversary since the restoration of democracy.
Earlier, the President laid a wreath at the bust of Spyros Moustaklis, a resistance fighter who opposed the 1967-1974 junta, on the 48th anniversary of the restoration of democracy and attended an event to honour the heroes of the struggle against the seven-year dictatorship at the former EAT-ESA jail in Eleftherias Park, where she laid the wreath.
She was received by Athens Mayor Kostas Bakoyannis and the junta resistance fighters' association president, Evangelos Giougkis.
At the reception at the Presidential Mansion, President Sakellaropoulou received political leaders, government and parliament, the leadership of the armed forces, members of the resistance, members of the judiciary, journalists and representatives of civil society and organisations engaged in social action that the president supports.
They included representatives of the arts and letters, of women's organisations and social welfare structures, people with disabilities, non-governmental organisations, healthcare, scientists, athletes, representatives of business and industry, residents of remote areas, refugee and Roman students, members of the aerial fire-fighting forces, homeless persons, and the national polo team and their coach.
Among the guests was judge Maria Lepenioti, who was president of the court in the trial of Golden Dawn, geneticist Emmanouil Dermitzakis, who heads the Genetics and Genomics Institute in Geneva, Christos Kyratsous, who is head of research in infectious diseases and viral vector technologies at Regeneron, space exploration scientist Dr Stamatios Krimigis, two young refugees who excelled in the university entrance examinations, a Roma university student, the mayor of Gavdos Lilian Stefanaki,
Halki pharmacist Panagiotis Patelis and the family of volunteer firefighter Vassilis Filoras were killed fighting a fire in Ippokratio Politia in 2021.
