Human Rights Developments

Defending Human Rights

The Role of the International Community

The Role of the International Community

United States

Relations between Greece and the United States remained good in 1998, although the State Department’s Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 1997 criticized Greece’s human rights record, especially with regard to minority rights. In July, Foreign Minister Theodore Pangalos, while in Thrace, strongly criticized the U.S. consulate in Salonica for its human rights monitoring. For FY 1998, Greece received an estimated $14.4 million in Foreign Military Financing (FMF) grants from the United States.