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Athens Macedonian News Agency: News in English, 16-09-22
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[01] Tsipras to Greek-American community: You should be proud to be Greeks
[01] Tsipras to Greek-American community: You should be proud to be Greeks
NEW YORK (ANA/ G. Milionis) Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on Thursday
visited the Greek school Agios Dimitrios in New York's Astoria district
and talked to the pupils, urging them to be proud of Greece not just
for its past but also for its present. In its current handling of the
refugee and migrant crisis, Tsipras noted, Greece was showing the humane
face of Europe.
Addressing the children, he said they are the followers of an old
tradition where every Greek family has one desire, for its children to
study and become better than their parents. Tsipras thanked the children
and their teachers for the arm welcome and said he was moved to see the
young generation maintain their origins.
"I also want to say that it is very touching to see that second, third
and fourth generation Greeks keep Greece deep inside their soul, care
for it perhaps even more than we who stay in Greece do," he added.
The prime minister's speech was briefly interrupted when one of the
children in the school choir fainted and had to be given first aid. The
young girl came to and got up to extended applause, with the prime
minister reassuring her that "these things happen" and wishing her a
speedy recovery.
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