Adamantios Vassilakis
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"Adamantios Vassilakis", is a distinguished Greek diplomat and negotiator.

Adamantios Vassilakis is a graduate of the Commercial High School of Chios, Greece, and holds a Licence in Political and Diplomatic Sciences from the Free University of Brussels.

Vassilakis joined the Diplomatic Service of the Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1972 as Embassy Attaché. He was appointed Third Secretary of Embassy at the Greek Embassy in Tirana, Albania in 1975. In 1977, he moved to the Foreign Ministry's First Department of Political Affairs, serving as Head of Section for the U.S.S.R. and Eastern Europe, as a member of various Greek delegations visiting Eastern European countries, and as a participant in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and Common Market political experts meetings.

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Why suddenly should Greece take him?

Most of the elements are from the text of the resolution adopted by the governing board, which we already voted for.

Let's be patient. Let's hope that they will find a solution. We need to go step by step to see how we can reach some kind of agreement. If we have unanimity, that would be even better.