The Diplomatic and Historical Archives of the Hellenic Ministry of Foreign Affairs

The Service of Diplomatic & Historical Archives (Y.D.I.A.) of the Hellenic Ministry of Foreign Affairs (M.F.A.) is responsible, according to article 17 of the New Regulation of the Ministry (Law 2.594/1998), for safe-keeping, preserving, classifying and utilizing the written, audio-visual and electronic archives of the Ministry. Furthermore, Y.D.I.A. is responsible for the diplomatic records of the Greek authorities abroad (Embassies, Consulates, Permanent Delegations, Liaison Offices) and also has the management of the Library and the Film Archive together with its subsidiary departments (Photographic Archive and Digitisation Laboratory) of the M.F.A. As in most European Union member-states, from an administrative point of view, the Service is directly under the jurisdiction of the Minister of Foreign Affairs.

Apart from the safe-keeping, preservation, classification, and utilization of the written, audio-visual and electronic archives of the M.F.A., the Service of Diplomatic & Historical Archives is responsible for the publication of specialized books and studies, the declassification of the diplomatic archives and the encouragement of research through the provision to researchers of the available archival material. Finally, Y.D.I.A. supports with the necessary documentation official research projects dealing with current foreign policy issues.

• History of the Service of Diplomatic and Historical Archives
  
• The Service of Diplomatic and Historical Archives today
  
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YDIA NEWS

• Two-day conference entitled "History and Politics in the work of Pantelis Voulgaris" (19-20/5/2005)
  
• Presentation of the volume "IMMIGRATION AND CINEMA" (1/10/2004)
  
• Publication of the third volume of the series "The Film as Testimony" of the Cinematographic Archive, entitled "Immigration and Cinema" (In Greek, September 2004)
  
• Two-day conference of the Cinematographic Archive: "Negotiations for War: Reenactment of War in Greek Cinema" (April 2004)
  
• Events for the anniversary of the 175 years of diplomatic relations between Greece and Russia (December 2003)
  
• YDIA Activities in the Framework of the Greek Presidency of the EU Council

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