Giorgos Lillikas
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Giorgos Lillikas | |
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Γιώργος Λιλλήκας | |
Minister of Foreign Affairs | |
In office 13 June 2006 – 16 July 2007 | |
President | Tassos Papadopoulos |
Preceded by | Georgios Iacovou |
Succeeded by | Erato Kozakou-Marcoullis |
Personal details | |
Born | Panayia, Cyprus | 1 June 1960
Political party | Citizens' Alliance |
Profession | Politician |
Website | www.yiorgoslillikas.com |
Giorgos Lillikas (
Foreign Minister from 2006 to 2007.[1] He was an independent candidate at the 2013 Cypriot presidential election
.
Studies
He studied
Institute of Political Science in Lyon, France, majoring in information and communications. He also holds a diploma in special studies on the Arab world from the Middle East Research Centre and the Institute of Political Science in Lyon. He continued his studies at the Institute of Political Science in Grenoble
and was awarded a master's degree in Political Science.
During his studies in France he was actively involved in the student movement. Between 1985 until 1987 he was member of the Historic Politology Research Team of the
George Vasiliou
. He then served for three years as the General Secretary of the Secretariat for the New Generation. During those years, he has been very active in associations and organizations involved in the anti-drugs movement and in the social integration of children with special needs.
Also, he represented Cyprus in many international conferences and gave many lectures in Cyprus and abroad on the
advertising company
.
Political career
In 1996, he was elected Member of the
AKEL in the Nicosia electoral district and was re-elected in the parliamentary elections of 2001. He served on the Parliamentary Committees on Finance, Foreign and European Affairs, Education, and Trade and chaired the Parliamentary Committee on the Environment. He was head of the Cyprus Parliamentarian Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
(OSCE), and was elected Vice President of its Committee of Political Affairs and Security for the period 2001–2002.
Lillikas served as Minister of Commerce, Industry, and Tourism from March 2003 until his appointment as Minister of Foreign Affairs on June 13, 2006. He has also served as acting government spokesman between January and June 2006.
Personal life
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He was married to Barbara Petropoulou until their divorce in 2018. They have one son together, Orpheas.
References
- ISBN 978-0-7546-7782-6. Retrieved 30 May 2011.