The Hellenic Parliament has announced the names of the scientists that will form the advisory Scientific Committee which will undertake the task to examine the documents comprising the “Cyprus File” that will be published.The Secretary General of the Hellenic Parliament Kostantinos Athanasiou will chair the Committee. The names of the members of the Committee are: Antonis Vgontzas (lawyer), Elli Droulia (Director of the Library of the Hellenic Republic), Leonidas Kallivretakis (Research Director/Member of the Administrative Board of the National Hellenic Research Foundation), Elias Nikolakopoulos (Emeritus Professor of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens), Georgios Savaidis (f. Ambassador), Tassos Sakellaropoulos (Historian/Historical Archives of Benaki Museum), Panagiotis Iliopoulos (Archivist), Vasiliki Tsakanika (Head of the Office of the Secretary General of the Hellenic Parliament), Magda Fitili (Historian).
The Committee will have a consultative character. Its task is to examine the documents of the “Cyprus File” which will be included in a publication. The first volume is expected to be published early 2018.
According to CNA’s sources, another Committee, under the responsibility of the Hellenic National Defence General Staff and the Greek Ministry of National Defence, will examine the military documents of the “Cyprus File”, in order to declassify the ones that do not violate military classified information.
According to the agreement between the Hellenic Parliament and the Cyprus House of Representatives, Cyprus will establish a similar Scientific Committee regarding the “Cyprus File”.