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Athens News Agency: News in English (PM), 98-06-01

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From: The Athens News Agency at <http://www.ana.gr>

NEWS IN ENGLISH

Athens, Greece, 01/06/1998 (ANA)


MAIN HEADLINES

  • FM comments on Sunday Times article
  • British Transport Minister in Athens today
  • Greek, Italy culture ministers meet
  • Hospital doctors to strike this week
  • Truck driver caught out for bigamy
  • Swedish royals to visit next year
  • Thessaloniki registers Afghanistan quake
  • Woman killed in car accident
  • Budestag delegation to visit Athens
  • Expert warns of Kozloduy danger
  • Weather
  • Foreign exchange

NEWS IN DETAIL

FM comments on Sunday Times article

Foreign Minister Theodoros Pangalos today described as "tendentious" a report in yesterday's edition of the Sunday Times about a plan to evacuate British citizens from Cyprus if Russian-made missiles are installed in the island republic. Citing official sources, the report said the plan provides for evacuation if Nicosia goes ahead with the installation later this year of S-300 anti-aircraft missiles. Pangalos said the aim of the report was quite clearly to exert pressure on the Cypriot government not to install the defensive missiles.

British Transport Minister in Athens today

British Transport Secretary Dr. Gavin Strang arrives in Athens today for a three-day visit and talks with the Greek Transport and Merchant Marine ministers. Strang is expected to visit the British pavilion at the biennial Posidonia international shipping exhibition, which opens its doors today in Piraeus. The Lord Mayor of London Alderman Richard Nichols and British ambassador Sir Michael Lllewelyn Smith will jointly inaugurate the biggest- ever British pavilion at Posidonia. Nichols arrived in Athens on Saturday on a nine-day official visit.

Greek, Italy culture ministers meet

Greece and Italy's culture ministers today called for Europe to keep up the impetus in the European movie industry, saying greater cooperation could challenge the U.S. hold on the world entertainment industry. Speaking at a news conference in Athens today, Greek Culture Minister Evangelos Venizelos said he and his Italian counterpart Walter Veltroni, who is also a deputy prime minister of the Italian government, agreed on a series of cultural events to further bolster already strong cultural ties between the two countries. Greece and Italy must aim at "salvaging the enormous cultural heritage of the two countries," Veltroni said. "Everybody must realise that Europe is not only a currency, but a continent with a strong cultural presence able to create an industry to rival that of America's."

Hospital doctors to strike this week

All hospitals and medical centres in the Attica Basin will be operating on skeleton staff Wednesday and Thursday as Athens and Pireaus hospital doctors mount a 48-hour strike for financial demands. EINAP, the union representing the Athens and Piraeus hospital doctors, will meet with health minister Costas Geitonas on Wednesday to state their positions, before an extraordinary general assembly to take place the following day.

Truck driver caught out for bigamy

It might have been all right in ancient Greece to have more than one wife, particularly if you were rich and powerful - Phillip II of Macedonia had seven - but the practice is now punishable by law, as I.K. found out to his cost today. The 45-year-old truck driver was sentenced by a Thessaloniki court to 30 months' imprisonment for being in wedlock with two different women for the past five years.

Swedish royals to visit next year

The Swedish royal couple will pay an official visit to Greece in April next year, the first ever visit of a head of state between the two countries, Greece's outgoing ambassador in Stockholm disclosed today. Ambassador Emmanuel Kalpadakis told the ANA that preparations were already underway for the visit. Kalpadakis, who is retiring after 35 years of service, will be replaced by Nikolaos Ladopoulos, who will also be accredited for Lithuania and Latvia.

Thessaloniki registers Afghanistan quake

Afghanistan's deadly earthquake was recorded "clearly" by the Thessaloniki University's geophysics lab as registering 6.9 on the Richter scale, a university seismologist said today. Vassilis Karakostas, head of the laboratory, told the ANA that Afghanistan "belongs to the Eurasian seismic zone, which starts from Gibraltar, runs through Greece, India and Afghanistan, and ends in Indochina".

Woman killed in car accident

A young woman died early today when the car in which she was travelling, driven by main opposition New Democracy deputy Costas Karaminas, hit three parked cars and crashed into an electricity pylon. Karaminas and a friend who was also in the car, Artemis Panousos, 32, a businessman and chairman of the municipal council of Karlovasi on Samos, were not seriously injured because they were wearing seat belts and their air-bags were activated on impact. The girl, aged between 20 and 25, who is believed to be a foreigner, was sitting in the back seat of the car and thrown through the windscreen when the car hit the pylon.

Budestag delegation to visit Athens

A delegation from the Bundestag's legal committee will begin an official visit to Greece on June 5, led by the committee's president Horst Eylmann. The delegation is scheduled to meet with Parliament President Apostolos Kaklamanis, Foreign Minister Theodoros Pangalos, Justice Minister Evangelos Venizelos, Public Order Minister George Romeos and members of the Greek Parliament. The focus of talks will be legal and European policy issues.

Expert warns of Kozloduy danger

Professor Costas Papastephanou, who lectures in nuclear physics at Thessaloniki University, said today that four of the six reactors at the Kozloduy nuclear power plant in neighbouring Bulgaria should already have been closed down because of their obsolete technology. Commenting however on reports of a recent minor nuclear accident at Kozloduy, Papastephanou said "it can't have been very serious", adding that "if something did happen, it must have been dealt with promptly".

WEATHER

Fine weather is forecast in most parts of Greece today except in the central and northern regions which will be overcast and may see rain later in the day. Athens will be mostly sunny with cloud likely in the afternoon and temperatures as high as 30C. Possible rain in Thessaloniki in the afternoon with maximum temperatures 28C.

FOREIGN EXCHANGE

Friday's rates (buying) U.S. dollar 302.917 British pound 493.044 Japanese yen(100) 217.387 French franc 50.612 German mark 169.706 Italian lira (100) 17.218 Irish Punt 427.552 Belgian franc 8.227 Finnish mark 55.826 Dutch guilder 150.576 Danish kr. 44.561 Austrian sch. 24.125 Spanish peseta 1.998 Swedish kr. 38.551 Norwegian kr. 39.878 Swiss franc 203.851 Port. Escudo 1.657 Aus. dollar 188.703 Can. dollar 208.320 Cyprus pound 576.352

(M.P.)


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