A relevant decision was made unanimously at today’s meeting of the Municipal Council of Athens, following a proposal by the Mayor of Athens Costa Bakoyannis. Last week, Mr. Bakoyannis met at the Athens City Hall with a delegation of the coordinating committee and expressed to its members the non-negotiable support of Athens in the people of Of Ukraine, assuring that moral and material assistance will continue in all possible ways. Also, the municipal authority is from the first moment in “open line” with Ministry of Immigration and the Ukrainian Embassy in Athens for the coordination of the reception and the hospitality refugees arriving in the capital. As the mayor has stated, if deemed necessary, his children’s camps St. Andrew are at the disposal of the State, in order to accommodate there also women and children who left behind their war zones Of Ukraine.
Speaking to the city council, Mr. Bakoyannisalso referred to the issue which arose in Symphonic Orchestra of Municipality of Athens by refusing to play o Ukrainian national anthem before a scheduled performance at the Olympia Theater, stressing that the city council had made a clear decision to support the tested Ukrainian people, without asterisks and footnotes. “For our party, it is a matter of principles and values. There was a minority reaction of a few trade unionists, who with voices and threats, imposed on our ensembles a line opposite to that of the municipal council “. Referring to the essence of the issue, he noted: “When the mental strength to support the defender disappears, when the mental strength to support the victims disappears, then he justifies the attacker. It justifies the perpetrator. “There is no neutrality, as some might like to mean or think, because war, ladies and gentlemen, does not fit into neutrality, because then it always justifies the one who does injustice,” he said.
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