The Ministry of foreign Affairs of Greece returned to the General Consulate of the country in Mariupol (Donetsk region, South-Eastern Ukraine) after one and a half months of his stay in Odessa.

The Consulate General was translated in Dnepropetrovsk on August 28, in connection with the deterioration of security in Mariupol. Then the self-proclaimed militia Donetsk national Republic took Novoazovsk and were preparing to assault the city of Mariupol. At the conclusion of the armistice Mariupol remained under the control of the Ukrainian army.

" by the decision of the Vice Prime Minister - Minister of foreign Affairs Evangelos Venizelos, in Accordance with the recommendation of the Ambassador of Greece in Kiev, the Consulate General of Greece in Mariupol returned today, October 13, 2014, at the headquarters, according to the report of the Greek Ministry of foreign Affairs, received in the Last news .

in the Donetsk region is home to the vast majority of Diaspora Greeks in Ukraine - 77 of 91 thousand thousand.

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