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Macedonian Press Agency: News in English, 97-03-08Macedonian Press Agency: News in English Directory - Previous Article - Next ArticleFrom: The Macedonian Press Agency at http://www.mpa.gr and http://www.hri.org/MPA.Last Update: 15:01 GMT+2SECTIONS
NEWS HEADLINES[A] GREECE[B] BALKANS[C] WORLDNEWS IN DETAIL[A] GREECE[01] GREECE'S STRIKING TEACHERS ASK TO MEET WITH EDUCATION MINISTER ANEWWeb Posted: 15:01 GMT+2Athens, March 8 (MPA)The country's secondary education striking teachers, who have kept most of Greece's high schools closed for almost two months straight, are asking to meet with Education Minister Gerasimos Arsenis again.Yesterday, four parents of students who are not able to keep up with their studies because of the strike, sought recourse at an Athens court where they asked that the strike be declared illegal. A.F. [02] NEW PATRIARCH OF ALEXANDRIA AND ALL OF AFRICA ENTHRONED TOMORROWWeb Posted: 15:01 GMT+2Athens, March 8 (MPA)The installation of the new Patriarch of Alexandria and All of Africa, Petros will be held tomorrow in Alexandria.Patriarch Petros comes from Dikomos in Cyprus and is a relative of General Secretary of the Cypriot Communist Party, AKEL, Dimitris Christofias. The ceremony will be held in Alexandria, Egypt. Present at the ceremony will be the President of the Hellenic Republic Kostis Stephanopoulos, the President of the Republic of Cyprus Glafkos Clerides, and a score of other dignitaries and politicians from both Greece and Cyprus. A.F. [B] BALKANS[03] GREEK UNDERSECRETARY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS TO MEET WITH SALI BERISHAWeb Posted: 15:01 GMT+2Tirana, March 8 (MPA)Greece's Undersecretary of Foreign Affairs Yiannos Kranidiotis is currently in Tirana where he will meet with Albanian President Sali Berisha later this afternoon. Also in Tirana is a delegation from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), headed by Austria's former chancellor Franz Vranitski.According to the French Press Agency, OSCE officials have said that the Albanian president will be willing to declare early elections within the following 45 days in Albania if the rioters turn in their guns first. A.F. [04] ALBANIAN RIOTERS DEMAND THAT THE MILITARY TROOPS WITHDRAWWeb Posted: 15:01 GMT+2Tirana, March 8 (MPA)The rioters in southern Albania are not keen of the agreement reached between President Sali Berisha and the country's opposition.Instead, they demand that Mr. Berisha resign, the military troops withdraw from the areas surrounding Avlona and early elections be held on a specified date. They say that once these demands are met, they will then turn in their guns. Albanian former military officers are said to be heading these rebel groups and are also said to be trying to bring in more civilians and assign a sense of order. A.F. [C] WORLD[05] INTERNATIONAL DAY OF THE WOMAN SALUTED BY UN CHIEFWeb Posted: 15:01 GMT+2New York, March 8 (MPA)The United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan has forwarded a message to women all over the world, in recognition of today's celebration of International Day of the Woman."This is a day when all of the world's women bridge the national, cultural, economic and political differences in order to unite and celebrate their common struggles for equality, development and peace," Mr. Annan states, adding that "although women are absent from peace talks, they contribute to preventive diplomacy and the creation of peacekeeping processes." A.F. Complete archives of the Macedonian Press Agency bulletins are available on the MPA Home Page at http://www.mpa.gr/ and on the U.S. mirror at http://www.hri.org/MPA/Macedonian Press Agency: News in English Directory - Previous Article - Next Article |
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