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May 25, 2021
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Thank you Karen. It’s wonderful to be here. Let me say what a huge honor it is for me to be part of this inaugural Alexander Philon lecture.
Ambassador Philon has been a friend and an advisor to me and generations of my predecessors, not to mention his many contributions to the transatlantic relationship and U.S.-Greece relations from Washington. I’m really delighted that we’re all able to do this all together.
It’s also a huge honor for me to be speaking in conjunction with this presentation by Ambassador Nick Burns. Nick has been a mentor and a friend for many years. For my generation of the Foreign Service, he really is the personification of what it is to be an effective American diplomat.