Athens News Agency: News in English, 02-10-01

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From: The Athens News Agency at <http://www.ana.gr/>

CONTENTS

[01] Sorensen elected new president of European Alliance of News Agencies

[02] Weather Forecast: Unsettled on Tuesday

[03] Foreign Exchange Rates - Tuesday

[04] (copy) Foreign Exchange Rates - Monday

[01] Sorensen elected new president of European Alliance of News Agencies

Uffe Riis Sorensen, managing director and editor-in-chief of the Danish news agency Ritzaus Bureau, has been elected president of the European Alliance of News Agencies (EANA) for the next two-year term, EANA announced on Tuesday.

Sorensen succeeds Andreas Christodoulides, general director of Greece's Athens News Agency (ANA), who decided not to stand for re-election after completing his two-year term in office.

Also elected were two new members to the EANA's Bureau, for three-year terms. They are Italian news agency ANSA CEO and managing director Giuseppe Cerborne and Russian news agency ITAR-TASS first deputy director general Mikhail Gusman, who join Dutch news agency ANP managing director Paul Tesselaar, and EANA secretary general Erik Nylen on the Bureau.

EANA was founded in 1956 and comprises 30 European news agencies. It is a non-profit membership association serving as a pan-European professional forum for contacts and cooperation, as well as exchange of information, experience and knowhow among its members.

[02] Weather Forecast: Unsettled on Tuesday

The day will start cloudy, turning to rain and storms. There will be sunny spells in many areas. The weather will improve from the west from evening. Snow is forecast on high ground in the north. Winds variable, moderate to strong. In the north, temperatures will range from 5C to 15C; on the rest of the mainland from 10C to 22C; and in the Aegean islands from 15C to 25C. Temperatures in Athens between 15C and 22C; and in Thessaloniki from 11C to 15C.

[03] Foreign Exchange Rates - Tuesday

Reference buying rates per euro released by the European Central Bank

U.S. dollar 0.993

Pound sterling 0.634

Danish kroner 7.486

Swedish kroner 9.224

Japanese yen 120.6

Swiss franc 1.472

Norwegian kroner 7.400

Cyprus pound 0.577

Canadian dollar 1.569

Australian dollar 1.824

[04] (copy) Foreign Exchange Rates - Monday

Reference buying rates per euro released by the European Central Bank

U.S. dollar 0.985

Pound sterling 0.633

Danish kroner 7.486

Swedish kroner 9.178

Japanese yen 120.7

Swiss franc 1.478

Norwegian kroner 7.391

Cyprus pound 0.578

Canadian dollar 1.553

Australian dollar 1.809

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