Athens support for Czech Republic's EU prospects

Athens 10/03/1999
Greece is very supportive of the Czech Republic's efforts to join the European Union, Alternate Foreign Minister Yiannos Kranidiotis stres-sed yesterday.
Mr. Kraniditis was speaking after meeting with visiting Czech European Affairs Minister, Pavel Telicka.  On his part, Mr. Telicka thanked Athens for its assistance, saying:   "Everything will be fine...Greece also had to deal with adjustment problems at the beginning."  "The Czech Republic has made important progress in harmonising its national legislation to Community laws," Mr. Kranidiotis said.   He also suggested that candidate-countries for EU accession be included in talks at the EU on a common foreign and security policy.