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Greece and the United Kingdom maintain excellent and cordial relations [1] and consider each other an ally [2] with the Greek Prime Minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, paying an official visit to London in 2021. [3] Greece and the United Kingdom are both members of the United Nations, NATO and the Council of Europe.
The Greek War of Independence began in 1821, and by January 1822 the provisional government of Greece had established an assembly, and a formal constitution. [2] By 1823, the British Foreign Secretary George Canning was taking an keen interest in the 'Greek issue'.
An agreement concluded between the British and Greek governments in Athens on 22 August (Gregorian style)/4 September 1920, in order to regulate legal relations between Greek citizens and the court system in Egypt. Ratifications were exchanged in Athens on 4 January 1921 and the agreement went into effect.
As one of the oldest Euro-Atlantic member states in the region of Southeast Europe, Greece enjoys a prominent geopolitical role as a middle power, due to its political and geographical proximity to Europe, the United Kingdom, France, Italy, Cyprus and the rest of the European Union and NATO, Lebanon, the United Arab Emirates, North Macedonia, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, Switzerland while at the same ...
Pages in category "Greece–United Kingdom relations" The following 34 pages are in this category, out of 34 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Ever since Greece the Greek War of Independence against the Ottoman Empire, the people of the Ionian Islands had pressed for union, or enosis, with Greece. At a meeting of the British Cabinet in 1862, Foreign Secretary Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston decided to cede the islands to Greece.
This left out Central Greece, Crete, and other islands which had participated in the Greek uprising and/or were at the time under Greek control. In the event, the Protocol was amended on 22 March 1829 by the signature of the second London Protocol , which largely accepted the Poros Conference's recommendations.
The London Philhellenic Committee (1823–1826) was a Philhellenic group established to support the Greek War of Independence from Ottoman rule by raising funds by subscription for military supplies to Greece and by raising a major loan to stabilize the fledgling Greek government. [1]