Diplomacy Conference to begin in Orestiada Monday

A league connected “Diplomacy successful the epoch of geopolitical revisions – successful the Footsteps of Alexandros Caratheodoris” will take spot successful the northeastern town of Orestiada, adjacent to the borderline with Turkey, connected Monday and Tuesday.

The league is portion of a series, Applied Greek-French Dialogues, organized alternately successful France and Greece, and will beryllium the sixth such yearly event.

“This gathering aims to speech views, comparison representations and formulate thoughts connected the adaptation of Diplomacy and International Organizations to the caller conditions. As France and Greece converge successful their accent connected International Law, this practice is becoming peculiarly productive,” the event’s organizers said successful a statement.

The Caratheodory Family Heritage Association are co-organizers of the conference. The Ethnological Museum of Thrace and the Centre Culturel Hellenique are collaborating. The lawsuit is under the aegis of Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew.

Alexandros Caratheodoris (1833-1906), scion of a salient Phanariote family, was a diplomat and civilian servant successful the Ottoman Empire, serving arsenic Foreign Minister, Governor of Crete (twice) and Prince of Samos. More applicable to the theme of the conference, helium was the caput of the Ottoman delegation to the Congress of Berlin, successful June and July 1878.

The Berlin congress, which confirmed the independency of Bulgaria but constricted its territorial size and constricted Russian power established by the Treaty of San Stefano is some an illustration of planetary practice and a cautionary tale. Initially hailed arsenic having averted further struggle and restored stability successful a volatile region, its effect near astir participants disappointed, aggravated and anxious to yet undo the compromises reached. The Balkan wars that erupted some 35 years aboriginal are the astir salient but not the lone consequence.

The league aims to renew and enrich the reflection connected the upcoming geopolitical developments.

In the footsteps of Caratheodoris and the different Berlin Congress participants, the league will bespeak connected the analogies with today’s geopolitical world and the prospects for rethinking and revising nationalist diplomacy successful an innovative and effectual way.

Keynote speakers see erstwhile Belgian premier curate and archetypal imperishable European Council President Herman Van Rompuy and two erstwhile Presidents Greece’s Council of State, Panagiotis Pikrammenos and Katerina Sakellaropoulou, some of whom went to service successful higher office, Sakellaropoulou arsenic President of the Hellenic Republic and Pikrammenos arsenic Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Minister.