Dear Minister of Education, Sports and Youth, my friend Prodromos,
Thank you very much for this important moment, the establishment of the Deputy Ministry of Culture of Cyprus for which you have contributed so much.
A lot has happened to reach today's historic day.
As you know, until 1965 there was no independent government department dealing exclusively with culture. After the independence of Cyprus, all matters of education and culture were regulated by the Greek Community Assembly, chaired by Dr. Konstantinos Spyridakis.
After the intercommunal riots of 1963-1964 and the insurmountable problems in the relations between the two communities, the government decided to establish the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Cyprus in 1965, while the Ministry's Educational Service took over the field of culture.
In 1993, with the addition of the word "Culture", the Ministry was renamed the Ministry of Education and Culture, and the Educational Service was renamed the Department of Cultural Services.
To come to today, when the Government implemented its announcement during your ministry, and President Nicos Anastasiades gave me the great honour of entrusting me with the duties of the first Deputy Minister of Culture of the Republic of Cyprus.
It is with great pleasure and a sense of responsibility that I take over Culture from your Ministry.
It is with great pleasure and a sense of responsibility that I take over Culture from your Ministry.
In a spirit of cooperation, transparency and with an eye to the future, in the short period of time available to me, I will work with consistency and enthusiasm to lay the foundations for the proper formation of the Ministry of State, always focusing on the creator, the human being, the tireless worker of culture.
Moreover, I personally, as a person coming from the field of culture, interpret the President of the Republic's confidence in me as confidence in the workers of culture in our country.
Thank you again for all your efforts for the creation of the Deputy Ministry of Culture and I hope for the continuation of the fruitful and creative cooperation, which we have already begun.
Thank you very much.
(EK/SX)
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