2024 marks fifty years since the events of July- August 1974, during which, the illegal Turkish invasion of the Republic of Cyprus led to the unjustifiable occupation of some 37% of the country’s territory. A decade earlier, in 1964, in order for...
On July 8 and 9, UN’s ‘Office on Drugs and Crime’ held the 14th Session of its Human Trafficking Working Group in Vienna. The Session focused on child trafficking as well as on trafficking for the removal of organs. Since 2023 and within its...
On July 8, Greece participated in the United Nations Security Council Arria Meeting on “Stepping up Prevention Action: From Environmental Challenges to Opportunities for Peace”. ‘Arria-formula’ meetings are informal meetings of the Security...
On July 1, the Hellenic Permanent Mission to the United Nations addressed the 2024 UN General Assembly Plenary Meeting on the Responsibility to Protect. ‘R2P’, as it is most commonly referred to, is a principle adopted at the 2005 World Summit,...
Two of the main priorities of the Hellenic tenure on the Security Council during the years 2025/26 will be to galvanize efforts for the protection of children and coping with the climate crisis. These are issues which can be addressed separately,...