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AHI offers several exciting programs throughout the year. Each spring, AHI’s gala “Hellenic Heritage Achievement and National Public Service Awards Dinner” honors the best and brightest in the Greek American community; in the fall we hold a conference on “The Future of Hellenism in America," held each year at different cities around the country; and in the summer the “College Student Foreign Policy Study Trip to Greece and Cyprus” a two-week trip to Washington, DC, Greece and Cyprus college students have the opportunity to see and experience first hand foreign policy issues affecting US-Greece-Cyprus relations.

Membership Information

AHI’s members care deeply about the United States’ relationship with Greece and Cyprus and their neighbors. Following Pericles’s admonition that good citizenship requires involvement in public affairs, we recognize the important role played in a vibrant democracy by alert and engaged citizens.

Policy Statement

Each year, AHI initiates congressional legislation, issues policy statements, and serves as an effective watchdog on issues affecting U.S. relations in Southeastern Europe. Key issues have included ending the illegal occupation of Cyprus, the treatment of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, aggression in the Aegean Sea, and the U.S.’s response to the dispute between Greece and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) over the latter nation’s name.

AHI to President Obama: Place Cyprus, Aegean Sea, Ecumenical Patriarchate on Agenda with Turkish Prime Minister

Written by Staff Thursday, 02 May 2013 00:00

AHI to President Obama: Place Cyprus, Aegean Sea, Ecumenical Patriarchate on Agenda with Turkish Prime Minister

WASHINGTON, DC — The American Hellenic Institute (AHI) released a letter it sent today to President Barack Obama ahead of the president’s May 16, 2013 meeting with Prime Minister of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.

AHI Appalled by U.S. Commission’s International Religious Freedom Report Upgrading Turkey

Written by Staff Thursday, 02 May 2013 00:00

AHI Appalled by U.S. Commission’s International Religious Freedom Report Upgrading Turkey

Turkey Upgraded by Two Tiers despite Unresolved Issues

WASHINGTON, DC — The American Hellenic Institute is appalled by the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom’s (USCIRF) two-tier upgrade of Turkey from a designation as a “country of particular concern” (CPC) in 2012 to a less harsh status of “other countries and regions monitored” in its 2013 Annual Report which the commission released April 30.

AHI Statement: Reject the Turkish Caucus-led Congressional Letter on Restart of Cyprus Negotiations

Written by Staff Monday, 29 April 2013 00:00

AHI Statement: Reject the Turkish Caucus-led Congressional Letter on Restart of Cyprus Negotiations

WASHINGTON, DC — The American Hellenic Institute (AHI) has issued the following statement with regard to a congressional letter being circulated in the U.S. House of Representatives by co-chairs of the Turkish Caucus, U.S. Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-KY) and U.S. Rep. Stephen Cohen (D-TN) that attempts to generate congressional support for the restart of Cyprus settlement negotiations due to the current state of Cyprus’s economic condition:

“The American Hellenic Institute deplores the congressional initiative spearheaded by the Turkish Caucus to generate congressional support for a letter to be sent to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon that utilizes the context of Cyprus’s economic crisis as the basis to renew negotiations for a Cyprus settlement.

AHI-backed Cyprus Resolution Introduced by Congressman Bilirakis

Written by Staff Friday, 26 April 2013 00:00

AHI-backed Cyprus Resolution Introduced by Congressman Bilirakis

Legislation Condemns Attempts to Use Cyprus’s Fiscal Crisis as Means to Force a Settlement

WASHINGTON, DC — U.S. Rep. Gus Bilirakis (R-FL) introduced a resolution backed by the American Hellenic Institute (AHI) on April 26, 2013 that expresses the United States’ commitment to the reunification of the Republic of Cyprus and the establishment of a unified government on Cyprus that guarantees the human rights of all Cypriots and condemns any attempt to use the current economic crisis as a means of forcing the restart of negotiations or imposing a settlement on the people of Cyprus, announced AHI.

AHI Celebrates Greek Independence Day at the White House

Written by Staff Monday, 22 April 2013 00:00

AHI Celebrates Greek Independence Day at the White House

WASHINGTON, DC — The American Hellenic Institute (AHI) celebrated Greek Independence Day at the White House on April 18, 2013. AHI President Nick Larigakis and AHI Board Secretary and Legal Counsel Nicholas G. Karambelas attended the ceremony officiated by President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden and His Eminence Archbishop Demetrios.

AHI Submits Letter to the New York Times; Rebuts Notion that Cyprus Should “Play Nice” with Turkey

Written by Staff Wednesday, 17 April 2013 00:00

AHI Submits Letter to the New York Times; Rebuts Notion that Cyprus Should “Play Nice” with Turkey

WASHINGTON, DC — The American Hellenic Institute (AHI) released a letter to the editor it submitted to the New York Times in response to a March 27, 2013 article titled “For Cyprus, A Sudden Need to Play Nice with Turkey,” by James Kanter.