President Zurabishvili posthumously awards Cypriot philanthropist
President Salome Zurabishvili posthumously awarded Photos Photiades with the Presidential Order of Excellence and offered it to his daughter, Ilona. Photo: President's press office
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President of Georgia Salome Zurabishvili has awarded the late Cypriot businessman Photos Photiades with the Presidential Order of Excellence.
President Zurabishvili said Photiades was a "great Cypriot friend", who supported Georgia and helped launch the strong ties that led to today’s visit of the Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades.
Photos Photiades, great Cypriot friend, supported us and brought economic links and helped launch the ????????-???????? strong ties that led to today’s visit by @AnastasiadesCY. Today, I posthumously awarded him with the Presidential Order of Excellence and offered it to his daughter, Ilona. pic.twitter.com/7dYJ8616j9
— Salome Zourabichvili (@Zourabichvili_S) April 17, 2019
Giving the award to his daughter, Zurabishvili said the late businessman was “a great patriot and philantrophist” who has contributed a lot to developing diplomatic ties between Georgia and Cyprus.
Mr. Photos Photiades loved Georgia a lot. He had visited our country for several times and was supporting it so much that he even offered then Georgian Government his personal concept on establishing free economic areas with us”, Zurabishvili said.
Photos Photiades, a prominent businessman, died at the age of 98 last year.
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