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Dimitris Iliadis is a Greek Cypriot politician. He was Minister of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Environment, Minister of Defense and a Member of Parliament in the Electoral District of Famagusta elected with EDEK in the period 1985-2001.

Biography
Dimitris Iliadis was born in Lefkoniko in 1947. He speaks, in addition to Greek, English. He studied law at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. He is a lawyer.

He is married to Angeliki Hadjisavva and has a daughter and a son.

Political Path
He was elected a member of parliament in the parliamentary elections of 1985 in the Electoral District of Famagusta with the Social Democratic Movement-EDEK. for the 5th Parliamentary Period. He was re-elected in the 1991 parliamentary elections for the 6th Parliamentary Period  and in the 1996 parliamentary elections for the 7th Parliamentary Period. As a Member of Parliament, he was chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on the Environment and a member of the Parliamentary Committee on Legal Affairs. In addition, he was a member of the Executive Committee of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association.

In 2004 he separated his position from EDEK and since then has not belonged to its ranks.

On March 2, 2010, he was appointed Minister of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Environment in the Dimitris Christofias government. In July 2011 he also took over the Ministry of Defense and in August 2011 he was appointed Minister of Defense.

Other activities
He was a member of the European Association of Legislation since 1990 and a member of the Board of Directors of Hellenic Bank (2005-2010).