Endy Zemenides

The UN Security Council just renewed the mandate for UNFICYP - the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus - for another year instead of for six months. The renewal comes amid controversy over the UN Secretary General's Special Representative in Cyprus, and is also occurring less than a week before the first round of presidential elections in Cyprus.

Endy Zemenides, HALC's Executive Director, joins Thanos Davelis to explain why the argument that if Ankara doesn't get US F-16s it will turn to Russia or China is tantamount to accepting Turkey's hostage politics, making the case that this isn't really an actual dilemma.

Arguing that if Ankara doesn't get the F-16s it wants from the United States, it will get Russian jets is tantamount to accepting Turkey's hostage politics, says Endy Zemenides, executive director of the American Leadership Council (HALC), explaining that "this is not an actual dilemma."

The 2nd Southeast Europe and East Med conference organized by the Delphi Economic Forum and the Hellenic American Leadership Council, is taking place online this Wednesday, from 3.30 till 9.45 pm.

Joe Biden and his foreign policy team are more familiar with Greek issues than any other American administration in history, Endy Zemenides, executive director of the Hellenic American Leadership Council (HALC), tells Kathimerini.

The American Jewish Committee and the Hellenic American Leadership Council called on US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to clarify that challenges to Greek and Cypriot sovereignty by Turkey "are unacceptable to the United States."

The Eastern Mediterranean Security and Energy Partnership Act is a "historic, truly transformational development," which places Greece, Cyprus and Israel on the front line of American policy in the Eastern Mediterranean.

The Hellenic American Leadership Council (HALC) celebrated Wednesday's passage of the "Eastern Mediterranean Security and Energy Partnership Act," authored by Senators Robert Menendez  and Marco Rubio, through the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

The Hellenic American Leadership Council (HALC) announced a $1 million grant from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF). The grant will endow HALC's  Leadership 2030 FellowshipProgram, in honor of the late Nikos Mouyiaris. The program will be renamed the Nikos Mouyiaris Leadership 2030 Fellowship Program, supported by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation.

 American Jewish Committee (AJC) and the Hellenic American Leadership Council (HALC) have welcomed the introduction of the "Eastern Mediterranean Security and Energy Partnership Act" by Senators Robert Menendez and Marco Rubio.