In a ceremony at the Greek Embassy, Washington DC, on September 21, 1999, Predrag Pajic and Marijana Kolak, President and Vice-President of the Serbian Unity Congress DC Chapter, presented a check for $5,000 in aid of the victims of the Greek earthquake to Ambassador Alexis Christopoulos. Accepting the check Ambassador Christopoulos said that he valued it both as a practical gift and as a "symbol of the spiritual unity of the Greek and Serbian people." Although their governments might differ, the two peoples "always have and always will help each other." "At root we are one people." Ambassador Christopoulos recalled with affection his own years in the Greek Embassy in Belgrade (1981-87) and said that one undying memory was when, on departure, he was the guest of honor at a parade in Kragujevac commemorating the solidarity of Greece and Serbia in World War I.

Jonathan Clarke