Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias will travel to Venice on Monday 16 January and then visit San Marino.

During his visit to Venice, the Minister of Foreign Affairs will visit the Greek Institute of Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Studies.

The Hellenic Institute of Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Studies of Venice is a legal entity of public law (NPDD), under the general control of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and in part of its educational and educational activities under the control of the Ministry of Education, Research and Religious Affairs.

It is one of the five (excluding Mount Athos and the National Library) Greek institutions with the largest collections of antiquities, and is also the only Greek academic institution abroad.

Then the Minister of Foreign Affairs will meet with His Eminence Metropolitan of Italy and Exarch of Southern Europe Mr. Policarpo.

The visit to Venice will end with a meeting with the President and members of the Greek Orthodox Community of Venice.

The Greek Orthodox Community of Venice is the oldest Greek diaspora community in the Western world and the most historic community of Greeks, with an uninterrupted presence and activity for five centuries.

After that, Mr. Dendias will travel to Agios Marino, where he will hold meetings with senior officials. This is the first visit of a Greek foreign minister to San Marino.

The foreign minister will hold a private meeting with his counterpart Luca Beccari, followed by extended talks. At the end of his visit to San Marino, the Foreign Minister will be received by the governors and commanders of San Marino, Maria Luisa Berti and Manuel Chiavatta.

The aforementioned talks in San Marino will be dedicated to further strengthening bilateral relations in all areas in accordance with the Memorandum of Understanding for political consultations, which the Foreign Ministers of the two countries signed in December 2021 (on the sidelines of the OSCE Ministerial Summit in Stockholm) in cooperation within the framework of international organizations, in EU-Agios Marino relations, as well as in regional and international events, the Greek Foreign Ministry said in a statement.