"Cyprus: Issues Facing the Country Today" by H.E. Euripides Evriviades, Oct 2014 Part 1

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"Cyprus: An Overview of the Issues Facing the Country Today" by H.E. Euripides Evriviades the High Commissioner for the Republic of Cyprus to the United Kingdom. Part 1: Seminar Part 2: Questions and Discussion (http://youtu.be/buglWjvEu7g) Chair: Prof John Charalambous, Patron of the Cyprus Centre of London Metropolitan University Bio: H.E. Euripides L Evriviades is High Commissioner for the Republic of Cyprus to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland as of 04 November 2013. He has previously held posts as Deputy Permanent Secretary / Political Director of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador / Permanent Representative to the Council of Europe and Political Director of the Ministry. Mr Evriviades has also been Ambassador to the United States of America, High Commissioner to Canada, and Ambassador to the Netherlands and to Israel as well as holding positions at Cypriot embassies in Bonn, Germany; Moscow, USSR / Russia; and Tripoli, Libya. High Commissioner Evriviades holds a Master's degree in Public Administration (MPA-policy area of concentration: International Affairs and Security) from the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, which he attended as a Fulbright Fellow. He graduated (cum laude, 1976) with a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from the University of New Hampshire. He received a Doctor of Laws, Honoris Causa, from his alma mater, the University of New Hampshire (21 May 2005). He was born in Larnaca, Cyprus, on 6 August 1954. He is married to Anastasia Iacovidou-Evriviades, an attorney-at-law. He has an avid interest in the arts, especially music, as well as in antiquities, cartography and motorcycling.