Beleris: Mindful to Archbishop Anastasio the event held in Ioannina

With the thought and wishes of everyone, the event organized, under the auspices of the European People’s Party, by the Member of the European Parliament of the ND, Fredis Beleris, on the subject of “Northern Continental and Cyprus Hellenism meet in Ioannina”. Fredis Beleris referring to Archbishop Albania Anastasio, mentioned an enlightened clergyman and man who raised from the ashes the Autocephalous Church of Albania. ADVERSE “Today, however, you will allow me to start differently than I would like. To begin with the heavy shadow that wanders over our land and has settled these days in the hospital of Annunciation, which I visited yesterday. That is, where Archbishop Albania, Anastasia, fights his own fight. A enlightened clergyman and man who raised from the ashes the Autocephalous Church of Albania. I had the honour of visiting me in the cell on 15 August 2023 at the most difficult moment of my life. From that moment I felt not for a minute alone, I had company not only the image he gave me, but also his wise words all love, not only for me, but also for those who kept me unjustly bound,” he said. Regarding Albania’s European course, he noted that “now the ball is on Mr Rama’s pitch. The EU, our common home, has rules. In order to cross this European path, Albania should adopt the Cyprus model, which opened the accession funds and went on to rely on its forces. Not by the way I want it, but with respect to its people and its demands. And not in a way that altered their will or awakened their anti-Western feelings. And mostly without cold war logic. Without the logic of the puppet of larger states that is likened only to a pawn on the chessboard. If Albania does not take the necessary steps, the guards know. We are the only nation in the European Union to have two signatures, two states, but a common path and a single thought. Timeless we act as one and so we will continue. Hellenism, today, is much stronger and with it no one can play.” The event was attended as key speakers by the MEP of the Democratic Alarm and the ELK, Mr. Michael Hatzipantella, the Minister of State, Mr. Stavros Papastavrou and MP ND, Mr. Angelos Syrigos. Mr. Maria Kefala, the Mayor of Ioannina, Mr. Thomas Begas, the Secretary of Decentralised Administration of Epirus – Western Macedonia, Mr. Seraphim Liapis, the Minister, Mr.Leuteris Economou, as well as representatives of local government and bodies in the region.