Subject: News I (Greek Press Office BBs in Ottawa). To: macedonia@husc.harvard.edu (macedonia list.) Date: Mon, 12 Jul 93 14:43:36 EDT bulletin, 12/ 07/1993 ( ) ---------------------------- Bulletin Athens News Agency Athens, 12/7/93(ANA)--Prime Minister Constantine Mitsotakis met yesterday in Mykonos with President Constantine Karamanlis. Following the 50-minute long meeting, Mr Mitsotakis said there was proximity of views in the handling of the problems facing the country, adding that Greek-Albanian relations and developments in the Skopje issue had also been discussed. ana Athens, 12/7/93(ANA)--Ecumenical Patriarch Vartholomeos criticised western Europe and the Vatican in an address he made in St Petersburg yesterday. According to ET-1 TV, Vartholomeos said European unification would prove a futile Utopia if it disregarded the variety and diversity of cultures and embarked on the imposition of western European culture,a culture determined in many ways by the Roman Catholic and Protestant churches. Referring indirectly but clearly to the Vatican, the Ecumenical Patriarch said Orthodoxy constituted and will continue to constitute the dominant cultural force in eastern Europe and the Balkans,adding that all efforts to question this truth have led to the current deadlocks Europe is faced with. The Ecumenical Patriarch arrived in Moscow Saturday where he was welcomed by the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Alexios II. In talks, both agreed that rapid and sudden changes in Russia were a mistake,resulting in today's dense economic,social and political climate. The Patrharch's visit will last nine days and he is then due to visit Serbia on August 5 and Romania immediately afterwards.In September he will visit Rhodes and a month later, Athens. ana Athens, 12/7/93(ANA)--An earthquake registering 4.7 on the Richter scale rocked the Kylini region in the prefecture of Ilias late Saturday night. No damage or casualties were reported. ana Athens,12/7/93(ANA)--Mykonos'acute water supply problem will finally be resolved,Prime Minister Constantine Mitsotakis said Saturday, when he inaugurated the Marathia dam and laid the foundation stone of the Ano Mera dam on the island. The two dams are part of the 39 dams to be constructed nationwide in an attempt to forestall further water supply and irragation problems. The Ano Mera dam is expected to cost one billion dr and hold one million cubic metres of water. The premier said the same modern technology which has been successfully used abroad will be applied in the construction of the dam, adding that water from the Ano Mera dam will be used both for the needs of the local community and the island in general. He said a road providing access to the dam had already been built and the dam itself was expected to be opened in a year's time. The government's plans to combat water shortage in rural areas was ''radical'', Mr Mitsotakis said, with most of the projects expected to have been completed by the end of the year or early 1994. ''The agriculture ministry has already concluded tendering for 39 projects valued at 25 billion dr which are under construction and 30 of which are expected to be completed in 1993.In the Cyclades prefecture alone, tendering has been completed for seven reservoirs and dams valued at 5.6 billion dr'', he said. Mr Mitsotakis said the Marathia dam cost 1.1 billion dr and has a capacity of 2.9 million cubic metres of water, adding that it finally resolves the water supply problem faced by Mykonos due to the increased influx of tourists in the summer months.