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![[Prime Minister's flag]](../images/g/gr~pmin.gif)
Flag of the Prime Minister - Image by Željko Heimer, 10 October 2001
According to Album des Pavillons [pay00], the flag of the Prime Minister is a square blue flag with a white cross and three white rising diagonal stripes in the first quarter. This flag is prescribed by Royal Decree of 31 May 1914.
Željko Heimer & Nozomi Karyasu, 12 Decemmber 2009
![[Minister of Defense]](../images/g/gr~omin.gif)
Flag of the Minister of Defense - Image by Željko Heimer, 10 October 2001
According to Album des Pavillons [pay00], the flag of the Minister of Defense is similar to the Prime Minister's flag but with three white descending diagonal stripes in the third quarter.
![[Car flag of the Minister of Defense]](../images/g/gr_md.gif)
Car flag of the Minister of Defense - Image by Željko Heimer, 10 October 2001
The same source shows the car flag of the Minister of Defense asa dark blue-red-light
blue horizontally divided flag, fimbriated white with the Minister's
emblem overall and a golden fring on three edges.
The emblem and the inscription can be seen on the
website of the Ministry of Defense.
The text has a quite unusual Greek font, though. The inscription
ΑΜΥΝΕΣΘΑΙ ΠΕΡΙ ΠΑΤΡΗΣ
stems from Homer's Iliad (12:243) and means "to defend one's country". The whole
line reads: ηεις οιυος αριστος αμυνεσθαι περι πατρις (One
omen is best, to fight for one's country).
Željko Heimer & Marcus Schmöger, 13 October 2001
The flag of the Minister of the Navy, a square version of the national flag, is shown in Album des Pavillons, edition 1995 [pie95] , but no longer shown in the 2000 edition [pay].
Željko Heimer, 14 October 2001