The Minister of National Defence Dimitris Avramopoulos returned to Athens, after the completion of his two day visit to the United States of America, which took place following an invitation extended by the U.S. Secretary of Defence Chuck Hagel.
After their meeting at the Pentagon, Mr. Avramopoulos visited the Pentagon Memorial for the victims of the terrorist attack of Sept. 11, 2001 and signed the book at the Memorial’s Chapel.
The Minister of National Defence laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at a ceremony organised at Arlington National Cemetery in Washington.
Besides his meeting with Mr. Hagel, Dimitris Avramopoulos also met with members of the Congress at the U.S capital. During his contacts, he had the opportunity to present our country’s steady steps towards progress and underline its stable and stabilising role in the broader region.
The Minister of National Defence also had open discussion at the Brookings Institute, with Council members of the Institute and think tanks experts, and he discussed with them Greek economy, as well as the developments in the wider area of eastern Mediterranean and south-eastern Europe, making special reference to the goals and priorities of the Greek EU Presidency in 2014.
Concluding his visit in the United States, Mr. Avramopoulos visited the U.S Holocaust Memorial Museum, where an MOU between the Museum and the Hellenic Army General Staff was signed at his presence, aiming at the beginning of cooperation for the research of historical records of War World II.