Greek President Katerina Sakellaropoulou drew parallels between the refugees of the Asia Minor disaster of 1922 who arrived on Lesvos and the migrants and refugees of today, during a visit at the Museum of Refugee Memory 1922 in Skala Loutron, ANA reports.
At the site, Sakellaropoulou spoke of the tension with the arrival of the refugees then and “how they managed finally to be overcome and all of us to move ahead.” These are “difficult stories, but a challenge also for all of us to retain social cohesion and our humanity and humanitarianism.”
Prior to the museum, Sakellaropoulou paid a visit to the new health unit at the Moria Reception and Identification Center, in the Mytilini region, accompanied by Migration & Asylum Minister Notis Mitarachi and Netherlands Ambassador to Greece Stella Ronner-Grubacic, whose country donated the unit.
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