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Athens Macedonian News Agency: News in English, 16-06-07Athens News Agency: News in English Directory - Previous Article - Next ArticleFrom: The Athens News Agency at <http://www.ana.gr/>CONTENTS
[01] Greece has shown genuine commitment to implementing key economic and fiscal reforms, White House spokesman says"Greece and the other members of the EU have made important progress in both offering up needed support to the Greek government and to the Greek people as they confront some significant fiscal and economic challenges in their country," the White House spokesman Josh Ernest said during the G7 summit.Ernest underlined that "what we've seen from the Greek government is a genuine commitment to implementing some key economic and fiscal reforms that would put Greece back on a path to sustainable debt load." "So this is not a problem that's going to get solved overnight, and there have been various points along the way over the last six years or so where it has looked as if the relationship between Greece and the EU might go down the wrong path. I think the President was simply observing that as the Greek government continues to successfully implement these reforms, and as the EU continues to keep its commitment to supporting the Greek government, that things seem to be moving in the right direction. [02] Albanian FM Bushati sees great potential in relations with Greece"The relations with Greece are strategic relations with great potential which we must exploit it in the best possible way," Albanian Foreign Minister Ditmir Bushati said in joint statements with his Greek counterpart Nikos Kotzias at Tirana.Asked on the Greek minority, Bushati said "it is a minority much respected in Albania which also constitutes a bridge of cooperation between Albania and Greece as well as a major contribution to democratic institutions and developments in the country," adding that the Albanian side is "open to take further measures as regards the respect to minorities." On the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ), he said that "the territorial integrity of Albania has been affected," stressing that the Albanian government "is determined to move ahead with the Greek side for a solution based on the European spirit and the international law." [03] The Orthodox Church should convene in its entirety in order to solve its problems, Ecumenical Patriarchate rep. Archbishop Job tells ANA-MPAEcumenical Patriarchate representative Archbishop Job of Telmessos gives an answer to the decision of the Bulgarian Church not to take part and the reservations of the Russian Church to participate in the Synod to be held in June 19 on Crete, in an interview with ANA-MPA on Tuesday."The Orthodox Church as a whole must gather to solve its problems and to declare its unity to the world," he said adding that "we should not forget that in the history of the Church, the Synods convened to solve the problems in a synodical way." The full interview is available in Greek for subscribers at ANA-MPA website. Athens News Agency: News in English Directory - Previous Article - Next Article |