President of the Hellenic Republic Katerina Sakellaropoulou on Friday concluded her two-day official visit to Slovenia by going to Koper, the city from which the family of the first Greek head of state, Ioannis Kapodistrias, originally hailed from, ANA reports.
President Sakellaropoulou was received by Slovenia’s President Borut Pahor and Koper’s mayor, Aleš Bržan, in Capodistria Square, where the two presidents then unveiled a “Friendship Bench” placed close to a statue of Kapodistrias.
In his person, Sakellaropoulou noted, Greece honors the diplomatic architect of the country’s independence and the founder of the modern Greek state.
Concluding her address, the Greek president said: “In this ‘Friendship Bench’ whose unveiling is held today…I see a symbol of the long and deep friendship that joins the Greek and Slovenian people.”
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