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Macedonian Press Agency: News in English, 99-01-17

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From: The Macedonian Press Agency at http://www.mpa.gr and http://www.hri.org/MPA.

Last Update: 23:27 GMT+2

SECTIONS

  • [A] GREECE
  • [B] EUROPE

    • NEWS HEADLINES

    [A] GREECE

  • [01] GREEK FOREIGN MINSTER TRAVELS TO SOFIA ON TUESDAY
  • [02] PARLIAMENT REJECTS CENSURE MOTION AGAINST EDUCATION MINISTER

    • [B] EUROPE

  • [03] KOSOVO MURDERS CONDEMNED, NATO CONVENES

    • NEWS IN DETAIL

    [A] GREECE

    [01] GREEK FOREIGN MINSTER TRAVELS TO SOFIA ON TUESDAY

    Web Posted: 18:57 GMT+2
    Athens, 17.01.1999 (MPA) Issues of bilateral interest as well as regional cooperation will be discussed during Greek Foreign Minister Theodoros Pangalos' visit to Sofia on Tuesday where he will meet with his Bulgarian counterpart Nadezda Michailova.

    In his one-day. Official visit to Bulgaria, the Greek FM will also be received by prime minister Ivan Kostov and parliament president Jordan Sokolov.

    [02] PARLIAMENT REJECTS CENSURE MOTION AGAINST EDUCATION MINISTER

    Web Posted: 18:57 GMT+2
    Athens, 17.01.1999 (MPA) The Hellenic Parliament has dismissed a vote of no confidence in Education Minister Gerasimos Arsenis after a three-day debate by a margin of 36 votes.

    A total of 163 MPs voted down the censure motion (161 MPs from ruling party PASOK and two independent deputies, Vassilis Kontoyiannopoulos and Stephanos Manos), compared to 127 MPs who voted to support the motion (95 ND MPS, 10 Communist Party of Greece, eight each from Coalition of the Left and Progress and Democratic Social Movement and six independent MPs).

    Following the vote, Prime Minister Kostas Simitis said that nothing could divert the course of the government towards fulfilling its mandate and that in 2000 "we will win the next elections".

    "We are open to any improvements considered necessary in the course of implementing the education reform," he said in his closing speech to the assembly, before the vote.

    [B] EUROPE

    [03] KOSOVO MURDERS CONDEMNED, NATO CONVENES

    Web Posted: 18:57 GMT+2
    Brussels, 17.01.1999 (MPA) NATO held an emergency meeting in Brussels today in order to discuss a response to the killing of dozens of civilians in Serbia's province of Kosovo, during clashes between the Yugoslav forces and the Kosovo Liberation Army at the village of Racak.

    NATO Secretary-General Javier Solana has already expressed outrage at the killings, warning that they could only exacerbate tension in Kosovo, where the majority ethnic Albanians are fighting for independence.

    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/

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