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Athens Macedonian News Agency: News in English, 15-04-01
CONTENTS
[01] Twenty persons detained after entering into the parliament courtyard
[02] New Democracy spokesman : The country has no more money
[03] Former PM Simitis to testify in Tsochatzopoulos case on April 29
[01] Twenty persons detained after entering into the parliament courtyard
ANA/MPA---Twenty persons were taken in for questioning on Wednesday after
an anti-establishment group entered into the parliament's courtyard
holding banners and asked for the liberation of convicted terrorist
Savvas Xiros for health reasons, the abolition of the so-called 'terror
law' and the high security prisons.
[02] New Democracy spokesman : The country has no more money
ANA/MPA---"We have lost two months over this negotiation and the bottom
line is that the country has got no money. In other words, we were
discussing how to get money without a memorandum and we eventually got
an extension of the memorandum without money. This is the bottom line,"
New Democracy spokesman Costas Karagounis on Wednesday told Mega TV.
He also underlined that the country has no more money. "We are living on
the money we left behind; however, they used up all this money, we don't
have a realistic plan for the day-after while the market has paralysed
and the real economy has suffered consequences."
[03] Former PM Simitis to testify in Tsochatzopoulos case on April 29
ANA/MPA---The five-member Court of Appeal for Felonies on Wednesday
summoned former Prime Minister Costas Simitis, PASOK leader Evangelos
Venizelos and members of the Government Council for Foreign Affairs
and Defence (KYSEA) in the period when Akis Tsochatzopoulos was
Defence Minister, to testify after Easter in the case of the armaments
procurement programmes.
The Court summoned the former KYSEA members to testify on April 29. The
court also decided to call, apart from Simitis and Venizelos, former
ministers Yannos Papantoniou and Vasso Papandreou to testify.
The subpoena to former members of KYSEA has been a standing request
of the main accused Akis Tsochatzopoulos since the beginning of the
judicial investigation, who argues that the decision on the disputed
contracts for submarines and the TOR M1 was a government decision and
was not taken by himself but by KYSEA.
Meanwhile, the court rejected the applications for suspension of execution
of sentence that would release Tsochatzopoulos' wife Vicky Stamati and
his accountant Frosso Lambropoulou.
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