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The Hellenic Radio (ERA): News in English, 99-11-05
From: The Hellenic Radio (ERA) <ert.ntua.gr/>
CONTENTS
[01] GREEK GOVERNMENT SATISFIED WITH AMERICAN STATEMENTS
[02] TRIPARTITE MEETING IN BULGARIA
[03] GREEK POSITIONS ON KOSOVO CRISIS OUTLINED IN STRASBOURG
[04] NEW DEMOCRACY PARTY LEADER PRESENTS HEALTH PROGRAMME
[05] GREEK PRESIDENT TO INAUGURATE EXHIBITION IN MUNICH
[06] GREEK AND CYPRIOT LEADERS TO MEET ON 20TH NOVEMBER
[07] FIRE BOMB DISCOVERED IN DOWNTOWN ATHENS
[01] GREEK GOVERNMENT SATISFIED WITH AMERICAN STATEMENTS
The Greek government has expressed its satisfaction following
corrective statements from the American side, as regards the views of
anonymous American officials about terrorism in Greece which were
published in the "Washington Post". Acting government spokesman Nikos
Athanasakis described the article in the "Washington Post" as
scurrilous and ridiculous but added that the matter was closed.
Environment, planning and public works minister Kostas Laliotis
described the article as provocative and despicable. Opposition parties
also reacted strongly on the matter.
[02] TRIPARTITE MEETING IN BULGARIA
During talks in Borovac, Bulgaria, yesterday, Greek prime minister
Kostas Simitis and the Bulgarian and Rumanian presidents, Petar
Stojanov and Emil Constantinescu, stressed the need for a specific
timetable for the implementation of the stability pact in the Balkans.
Mr Simitis' interlocutors expressed their satisfaction and gratitude
over the Greek plan for the reconstruction of the Balkans, which
provides for state and private investments worth 500 million dollars in
the next five years. 14 bodies found so far in gutted ferry-boat car
deck Another three illegal Kurdish immigrants were found dead yesterday
in a truck on the "Super Fast III" ferry, which caught fire earlier
this week. Authorities are looking for the driver of the lorry, which
bears Danish number plates. So far, 14 bodies have been recovered by
rescue teams. Two of the Kurds who perished in the fire were carrying
stolen Greek passports. The prosecutor general yesterday ordered a
preliminary investigation into charges that port officials were
involved in the transportation of illegal immigrants from the port of
Patras.
[03] GREEK POSITIONS ON KOSOVO CRISIS OUTLINED IN STRASBOURG
In Strasbourg, yesterday, Greek alternate foreign minister Christos
Rokofyllos outlined before the parliamentary assembly of the Council of
Europe and the Council of Europe's foreign ministers' committee the set
Greek positions on the settlement of the Kosovo crisis.
[04] NEW DEMOCRACY PARTY LEADER PRESENTS HEALTH PROGRAMME
Opposition New Democracy party leader Kostas Karamanlis presented his
party's health programme yesterday, according to which state hospitals
will become non-profit private organisations. Commenting on Mr
Karamanlis' statements, health minister Lambros Papadimas said the New
Democracy proposals would lead to the privatisation of the National
Health System.
[05] GREEK PRESIDENT TO INAUGURATE EXHIBITION IN MUNICH
President of the republic Konstantinos Stefanopoulos is expected in
Munich on Sunday to inaugurate the exhibition: "Modern Greece - Greeks
and Bavarians during the era of Ludwig I". The exhibition is held at
the National Bavarian Museum and will run until mid-February next
year.
[06] GREEK AND CYPRIOT LEADERS TO MEET ON 20TH NOVEMBER
Cypriot president Glafkos Kliridis will meet with Greek prime minister
Kostas Simitis in Athens on 20th November, while Greek foreign minister
Giorgos Papandreou will visit Cyprus later. This was announced by
Cypriot government spokesman Michalis Papapetrou, who reiterated that
Mr Papandreou's trip was not postponed by the Cyprus Republic, as
reported in the press.
[07] FIRE BOMB DISCOVERED IN DOWNTOWN ATHENS
A fire bomb planted outside the office of former public order minister
Theodoros Anagnostopoulos in downtown Athens was detonated by bomb
experts yesterday afternoon.
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