On the occasion of the Treaty of Prespa, the former Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras will receive the “Nikos Nikiforidis” Peace Prize today, Tuesday, September 24, 2024 at 19:00, at the “Miltiadis Evert” Amphitheater of the Technopolis of the Municipality of Athens.
Alexis Tsipras is expected to make a brief statement. Information from Vimas states that his speech will not have any political reference to the party’s internal party. After all, he avoids any public statement about what is happening within SYRIZA.
However, the “Nikos Nikiforidis” award will be given to two representatives of the bi-communal coexistence movement in a united Cyprus. To George Liassi, president of the Union of Cypriot Refugees of Greece, and to Neshe Yashin, Turkish Cypriot poet, professor at the University of Cyprus.
Its establishment is an initiative of PA.D.O.P (Observatory of International Organizations & Globalization) and has been awarded every year since 2018 in the context of the internationalization of the memory of the peace fighter Nikos Nikiforidis, who at the age of 22 led the Peaceful Youth Front (1950), which undertook the circulation in Greece of the Stockholm Appeal for the abolition of all nuclear weapons. Activity that led to the arrest, death sentence and execution of Nikos Nikiforidis, March 5, 1951, in Thessaloniki.
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