American Hellenic Institute
The American Hellenic Institute (AHI) is a Greek American organization created in 1974 to strengthen US-Greece and US-Cyprus relations, as well as relations within Hellenic-American community. The group has a lobbying focus, which distinguishes it from the other organizations associated with AHI.
AHI is active in foreign policy issues affecting Cyprus, Greece, Albania, Turkey, and North Macedonia, among others.
The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, Bartholomew I
Greece–United States relations
Due to the strong historical, political, cultural and religious ties between them, Greece and the United States today enjoy excellent diplomatic relations and consider each other an ally. Today Greece is one of the United States's closest allies in the world.
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis with President Joe Biden in the White House, May 2022.
Greek immigrants embarking in a small boat for a steamer for America from the port of Patras, 1910
Greek Americans return as volunteers to Greece on the outbreak of the First Balkan War, New York, October 1912.
President Franklin Roosevelt in meeting with members of the order of AHEPA (American Hellenic Educational Progressive Association), 1936
