The President of the Court, Marko Bošnjak, accompanied by Arnfinn Bårdsen, Vice-President of the Court, Mattias Guyomar and Ivana Jelić, Section Presidents, Judges Pauliine Koskelo, Ana Maria Guerra Martins, Ioannis Ktistakis and Davor Derenčinović, as well as Marialena Tsirli, Registrar of the Court, has attended a ceremony organised by the Presidency of the Hellenic Republic and the Hellenic Parliament, in Athens, on the occasion of the 50^th anniversary of Greece’s ratification of the European Convention on Human Rights and the 75^th anniversary of the Council of Europe, in the presence of Katerina Sakellaropoulou, President of the Hellenic Republic, and Constantine An. Tassoulas, President of the Hellenic Parliament. President Bošnjak, and Judge Ktistakis, elected in respect of Greece, both delivered an address on that occasion.

• Speech by President Marko Bošnjak