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Athens News Agency: News in English, 11-06-01
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[01] Chilean miners visit Acropolis Museum
[01] Chilean miners visit Acropolis Museum
(ANA-MPA) -- Twenty-five out of the 33 celebrated Chilean miners that
arrived in Greece this week visited the New Acropolis Museum on
Wednesday, where they were greeted by Tourism & Culture Minister Pavlos
Geroulanos at the state-of-the-art facility, which faces the Acropolis
in downtown Athens.
"On the days that our Chilean colleagues were trapped in the mine, we
sent a letter of solidarity, inviting them to Greece after the end of
their ordeal," said Lymberis Polychronopoulos, the vice president of
the Greece-based mining group EL.MIN, which invited the 32 Chilean
miners and one Bolivian colleague to Greece.
The 33 miners and their families arrived in the east Mediterranean
country on Tuesday. Earlier on Wednesday, they were received by Greek
President Karolos Papoulias at the presidential mansion.
The group will depart for Hania, Crete on Thursday. (ANA-MPA)
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