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GENERAL ASSEMBLY

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE I.A.O.

The General Assembly of the IAO, which constitutes the supreme body, is made up of two-member parliamentary delegations from the parliaments which are participating in the movement, decreed by the presidia of the parliaments of each country. It meets once a year in predesignated cities, in countries which are members of the I.A.O. Up to this day, Assemblies have convened in the following cities, with the following main subjects:

1993 - Founding- Ormylia, Chalkidiki, Greece. Main subject: "Orthodoxy in the new European Reality".

1994-1- Athens, Greece. Main subject: "The Interparliamentary Committee of Orthodox Members of Parliaments of the European Countries and its mission in the new European reality".

1995 -II- Moscow, Russia. Main subject: "The Cultural and Enlightenment Tradition of Orthodoxy".

1996-III- Sofia, Bulgaria. Main subject: "The Social Dimension of Orthodoxy."

1997-IV- Chalkidiki, Greece. Main subject: "Orthodoxy in the context of the European civilization- history and future".

1998-V- Warsaw, Poland. Main subject: "The problems of the novel heresies (sects) in the E.I.A.O. countries and effective ways of dealing with them".

1999-VI- Moscow- St.Petersburg. Main subject: "Ways of legal protection of the traditional family as a diachronic value of society".

2000-VII- Jerusalem, Israel. Main subject: "What do people say about the Son of Man (Mat. 16, 13 ) in the year 2000 AD?".

2001-VIII- Patmos, Greece. Main subject: "The contribution of the Orthodox conception in the expanded European Union".

2002-IX- Bucharest, Romania. Main subject: "Globalization and Orthodoxy».

2003-X- Vilnius, Lithuania. Main subject: "War-Poverty. The Orthodox viewpoint".

2004- Kiev, Ukraine. Main subject. " Security with freedom ".

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