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Yes, I'm Fanny Palli-Petrelia. I used to be for 25 years member of the Greek Parliament and I served as a minister in five ministries and now I'm not anymore acting in politics but I'm the vice president of the International Foundation of the IOC, International Olympic Committee for Olympic Truth.

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Well, we are here in the Institute for Cultural Diplomacy so I would say that we can solve problems, we can start solving and we can try because this will take a long time through cultural diplomacy and through the understanding, mutual understanding between the peoples.

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So, the problem now is especially for the refugees, this is a big problem which we face in Greece and we face in the Mediterranean and the Aegean Sea.

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The Aegean Sea, as we are neighbours, used to be the sea of culture and the sea of friendship, all friendship and now became a sea of death.

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We have so many drone people. This is something which has to be solved.

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And between Greece and Turkey, of course, Turkey should really keep and trust and respect the treaties with the European Union.

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Because I believe that through that we can find the solution for the problems of so many refugees that they come through Turkey to Greece and this should be a very good collaboration with Greece.

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And we really respect a lot and personally have a lot of friends in Turkey and politicians but really friends.

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And we are very close to the Turkish people with all these terrorist attacks, even today, this morning, a new attack.

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It's something that we can, we have to all collaborate because, you know, now is the problem with the terrorism.

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The terrorism is in our houses. I mean, it's in Europe. It's not an important terrorism anymore. It's there. It's here, terrorism.

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So, I heard you this morning speaking about and, well, I think that through cultural diplomacy, we have to teach young generations

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that we are all brothers and sisters, and it's nothing to do with our religion, with faith, where human rights are human rights.

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And the first human right is that we want all of us to be free to do in our life, to be Muslim or to be Christian, to be whatever, or Buddhist.

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First of all, it's this freedom we need. And we have to respect, respecting diversity. This is the key word.