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Athens News Agency: News in English, 08-01-04
CONTENTS
[01] PASOK requests briefing on Zachopoulos case
[02] KKE leader Papariga to address int'l meeting
[01] PASOK requests briefing on Zachopoulos case
Seventeen deputies of the main opposition Panhellenic Socialist
Movement (PASOK) tabled a request in Parliament on Friday for all the
culture ministers of the ruling New Democracy (ND) party's past
governments to testify before the Parliamentary Cultural Affairs
Committee.
In a relevant letter to the president of the Parliamentary Cultural
Affairs Committee, M.Kolla-Tsarouha, following the resignation of the
culture ministry's secretary general Christos Zachopoulos, the main
opposition deputies view as necessary for all the culture ministers
since March 7, 2004 to date, to be called to testify so that Parliament
and the Greek people to be briefed on what had happened and is
happening at the Culture Ministry.
Caption: ANA-MPA file photo of PASOK leader George Papandreou.
[02] KKE leader Papariga to address int'l meeting
Communist Party of Greece (KKE) Secretary General Aleka Papariga at 9
a.m. on Saturday will address a meeting of the Communist and Labour
Parties from countries of the Middle East, of the southern and eastern
Mediterranean, of the Red Sea and of the Gulf region.
The meeting will be held at the KKE's headquarters at Perissos and will
have as its theme "The recent developments in the region - the plans
for the 'New Middle East' and the duties of the communist and
anti-imperialist movement".
Caption: ANA-MPA file photo of Communist Party of Greece (KKE)
Secretary General Aleka Papariga.
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