Subject: Athens Macedonian News Agency: News in English, 17-06-06 From: "HR-Net News Distribution Manager" CONTENTS [01] IMF's Lagarde offers Europeans Greek debt compromise [02] PM Tsipras sends wishes to students [03] ND leader Mitsotakis sends his wishes to students ahead of Greek national exams [04] Tourism Minister Kountoura invites Antetokounmpo brothers to become ambassadors of Greek tourism --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [01] IMF's Lagarde offers Europeans Greek debt compromise "If our creditors have not yet reached the point of respecting our reports and accepting them, if they need more time, we can take it into account and give it to them," said Christine Lagarde, head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), in an interview with Handelsblatt. "There can therefore be a program in which the disbursement only takes place when the debt measures have been clearly outlined by the creditors," she told the German newspaper. "It is a possibility of an agreement," she said, but stressed that she still considered a rapid agreement on debt relief as the "ideal solution". [02] PM Tsipras sends wishes to students Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras sent his wishes on Tuesday to the students who will sit the university entrance exams. He suggested calmness, strength and good luck adding that the government's responsibility is to open roads to fulfill their dreams and this is what it is trying to do with the educational reform. [03] ND leader Mitsotakis sends his wishes to students ahead of Greek national exams Main opposition New Democracy leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis sent his wishes on Tuesday to the students that take their university entrance exams. Mitsotakis expressed his support to the students. As he said, life if full of tests and fights and wished them strength. [04] Tourism Minister Kountoura invites Antetokounmpo brothers to become ambassadors of Greek tourism Tourism Minister Elena Kountoura attended the celebrations for the Sports and Hellenism in New York organised by Cosmos FM for its 30-year anniversary which coincided with the 30th anniversary from Greece first place in the European Basketball Championship in 1987. Kountoura met with Greek basketball players Yiannis and Thanassis Antetokounmpo and invited them to become ambassadors of the Greek tourism and to contribute in Greece's international promotion. At a special ceremony at the Terrace of the Park she bestowed to the brothers Antetokounmpo the Greek heritage for the promotion of Hellenism award.