Ambassador to the US Andreas Kakouris of Cyprus

Ambassador Kakouris was invited to NIU to speak at a seminar for graduate students on the current situation in Cyprus and give a lecture to high-school teachers on genocide and human rights.

Kakouris has been trying to make known to the international community the situation that has been occurring on the island of Cyprus which has been the occupation of Turkish troops.

Ambassador Kakouris is concurrently accredited as High Commissioner of Cyprus to Canada.

Kakouris is the former Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Cyprus to Ireland (2002-2006.

Ambassador Kakouris was born in the United Kingdom (1960) and is married to Kareen Farrell Kakouris with two children, Stephen and Andreana.

Kakouris says he feels “the EU is the catalyst for change and remains hopeful that the EU can also be a catalyst for a settlement.

Kakouris said the government had redoubled its efforts in monitoring international art markets to locate and repatriate stolen artefacts.

While Muslims make up more than 99 percent of Turkeys population, according to the CIA World Factbook, Ambassador Kakouris says its not a Muslim-Christian issue.

Kakouris says that the Cyprus issue has been ignored for decades by the international community.

Kakouris is concurrently accredited as High Commissioner of Cyprus to Canada.

Kakouris was born in the United Kingdom and began his education at the University of Lancaster, where he was an honors graduate with a Bachelor Degree in Politics in 1981.