Athens News Agency: News in English, 07-04-27

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

CONTENTS

[01] PASOK alleges gov't 'cover-up' on bonds issue

[02] FM: Anti-missile zone must cover all NATO states

[03] Edison-led group to build 400MW plant in C. Greece

[01] PASOK alleges gov't 'cover-up' on bonds issue

"This line will cause the attrition and decay of the government, leading it to collapse," spokesman Petros Efthymiou, a former PASOK minister, added.

Referring to Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis' visit to a traffic education park in Athens on Friday, he cited what he called an "aberrant instance of activity of a premier that is generally absent and in hiding." He also noted that the park has been inaugurated by the previous Simitis government.

Meanwhile, PASOK leader George Papandreou on Friday met with former prime minister and PASOK president Costas Simitis at a downtown Athens hotel for a meeting over lunch.

Commenting on the meeting, Efthymiou said it was natural that there should be meetings between the two top PASOK cadres. He said the meeting was requested by Papandreou and had focused on European affairs.

Caption: ANA-MPA file photo of Efthymiou.

[02] FM: Anti-missile zone must cover all NATO states

She said the issue had been "extensively discussed" at the meeting, with the controversy fuelled even further by a recent "state of the nation" speech made by Russian President Vladimir Putin, and that the climate "had not been that pleasant".

Bakoyannis additionally underlined the need for extensive dialogue with Russia in order to allay its concerns that the proposed deployment will upset geostrategic balances and was not strictly a defence measure, but one which could target Russia.

NATO foreign ministers had concluded that dialogue on the proposal advanced by Washington must continue on both a technical and political level and that the right forum for these talks was the NATO-Russia Council, she added.

Regarding relations between Russia and NATO, the Greek minister said there were still unresolved problems.

"Our view is that they should be openly discussed in order to build relations of trust," she said.

Caption: ANA-MPA file photo of Bakoyannis.

[03] Edison-led group to build 400MW plant in C. Greece

A consortium statement said Greece's energy regulatory authority has already approved the installation license and noted that a decision on the investment was expected to be taken in the next few days by the boards of the companies in the consortium.

Edison and Hellenic Technodomiki said they believed in the dynamism of the Greek energy market, which was growing at a pace faster than the EU average and noted they would seek to establish a steady and significant presence in the country.

Edison began activities in Greece in 2001 through its subsidiary Edison Hellas SA.

Caption: Fumes billow from a smokestack at the state-run Public Power Corp. (PPC) plant of Aghios Dimitrios in Kozani, northern Greece, on Monday 5 February 2007. ANA-MPA / EPA/ CHRISTOS BLETSOS

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