Subject: Athens Macedonian News Agency: News in English, 17-04-14
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CONTENTS
[01] Gov't spokesman Tzanakopoulos: We are on the final stretch
[02] Resurrection service from Patriarchal church of St. George live
     on ANA
[03] Holy Friday on the island of Syros, an unforgettable experience
[04] Twenty six migrants and refugees arrested on Rhodes
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[01] Gov't spokesman Tzanakopoulos: We are on the final stretch

General elections will be held when the time comes and the time
is defined by the Constitution" said State Minister and government
spokesman Dimitris Tzanakopoulos in an interview with Efimerida ton
Syntakton on Friday.

Tzanakopoulos did not deny that "some of the lenders do not want the
Left to be recorded as the political force that will get the country
out of the supervision and they constantly come up with demands with
political and not purely economic focus"

"The government will promote interventions to support the people of
labour, multiply the initiatives with aim the strengthening of democracy
and freedom and proceed to the restoration of the social state with the
few resources at our disposal" underlined the government spokesman.

On the negotiation, Tzanakopoulos referred to "a compromise based on
mutual concessions... a manageable compromise, which may open the way
for the exit from the programme and the supervision" he said adding that
"despite IMF's irrational demands" we are now "on the final stretch".

Finally, he reiterated the government's position that the measures
will be implemented "only under the condition that at the end of the
programme in the summer of 2018, the mid-term measures for the Greek
debt will have been already activated".


[02] Resurrection service from Patriarchal church of St. George live
on ANA

The Athens Macedonian News Agency will broadcast live the Resurrection
Service from the Patriarchal Church of St. George in Phanar.
The broadcast will be free on ANA website and the embedded code for
websites is:

src=http://footage.ert.gr/events/anastasi.html name=imgbox id=ANASTASIMI

The service will start at 23:25 on Holy Saturday and will be completed
at 02:45 Easter dawn.


[03] Holy Friday on the island of Syros, an unforgettable experience

The procession of the Epitaph is one of the main features of the island
of Syros, an island with both Orthodox and Catholic Christians.

All Epitaphs on Holy Friday leave from every Catholic or Orthodox Church
in Ermoupolis (the capital of the Cycladic island of Syros and of all the
islands of Cyclades) and meet at the Town Hall Square. The Epitaphs of
the churches of Aghios Nikolaos, Metamorfosis and Kimisis tis Theotokou
have the procession in Ermoupolis and around 10.30 they meet at Miaoulis
square for the obsecration. At 8-9 o' clock the epitaph of the Catholic
church of Evangelistria in Ermoupolis precedes passing by Miaouli square
where the obsecration is held.


[04] Twenty six migrants and refugees arrested on Rhodes

Twenty six refugees and migrants, among them 13 children that disembarked
on a Rhodes island beach, were arrested on Friday.

The seven Iraqi nationals (four men, three women and nine children),
five Syrians (two men, three women and four children) as well as a man
from Libya have left from the opposite Turkish coasts.