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Lieutenant Nikos Kouris, Senior Assistant to the General Staff of National Defense and close badociate of Andreas Papandreou, founder of PASOK, left life at the age of 88 years old.
The warm condolences of his family expressed the Movement of Change, noting that Nikos Kouris lived through all the great events of his time, including the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in 1974.
Nikos Kouris served as PASOK MP and Deputy Minister of Defense under Gerasimos Arsenis, a post of which he managed the events of Imia in 1996.
Nikos Kouris was born on May 27, 1930. He graduated from the University of Ikarian school in 1950. He served as a fighter pilot and flight instructor. During his career, he has held numerous management positions. From January 1975 to June 1976, he was Director of the Business Division of the General Staff. From June 1976 to June 1978, he was chief of staff of the ATA. From June 1978 to May 1980, he held the position of Commander of the Air Training Department and from May 1980 to January 1982 he was First Chief of Staff. In January 1982, he became Chief of the General Staff, a position he held until December 1984, when he took office as Chief of the State. -Major. From January 1985 to July 1989, he was a member of the NATO Military Committee. In 1989, he was retired and engaged in PASOK politics
. On 24 September 1990, at the 2nd PASOK Congress, he was elected member of the Central Committee and Deputy Secretary of the Division of International Relations of the Movement. In October 1993, after the election victory of PASOK, he was sworn in by the Deputy Minister of National Defense. On 17 April 1994, at the 3rd Congress of PASOK, he was elected alternate member of the party's central committee. In January 2009, he published the book "The Aegean: the long-standing conflict and the role of the Americans", referring to the dangers of the expansive aspirations of Turkey
Imia and the conflict with Simitis
Kouri was the first Chief of Staff of the Hellenic Air Force. He is also the oldest Chief of Staff (December 1984-July 1989). As Chief of the General Staff, Kouri was commended for the effective treatment of the Turks during the 1987 crisis, as well as for the total dismantling of the right-wing Red Prussia organization, which was at the origin of the political life of the country since the 1950s signed an agreement with the CIA of the United States
After leaving the armed forces, Kouris was elected to the central committee of PASOK and took the reports to the Assistant Secretary for International Relations. From 1993 to 1996, he was MP for PASOK and Deputy Minister of National Defense. In the Imia crisis, Kouris took an aggressive stance and called for the use of the National Operations Center (ETHEKIPI) for the effective handling of the situation. However, Prime Minister Costas Simitis and Foreign Minister Theodoros Pangalos ignored it and preferred to solve the problem with American mediation. Kouris himself accused Simitis of saying that he had "an inexplicable aversion" for the armed forces
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