Athens News Agency: News in English, 01-05-12
CONTENTS
[01] ND leader - FYROM visit
[02] Weather - Sunday
[01] ND leader - FYROM visit
12/05/2001 18:58:06
SKOPJE (ANA) -- Greeces main opposition leader arrived in the Former
Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) on Saturday for meeting with the
strife-ridden Balkans state leadership after coming from Belgrade.
New Democracy leader Costas Karamanlis, on a tour of the western
Balkans as part of a European Peoples Party (EPP) initiative, met with
FYROM Prime Minister Ljubco Georgievski and Albanian Democratic Party
leader Arben Xhaferi. The meetings came one day after most of the
countrys top political leaders concluded an agreement to form a broad
government coalition that will include ethnic Albanian parties.
?Im visiting Skopje for a second time in such a short period because
developments in this country have troubled us? and because we have been
assigned an EPP initiative for democratisation in the western Balkans,?
the ND leader said.
?I hope and trust that the formation of a national unity government
with the participation of all political parties, including the Albanian
parties, of course, will meet its goals.?
[02] Weather - Sunday
12/05/2001 15:56:47
Rain and thunderstorms are forecast for the east and south parts of the
country on Sunday, improving later in the day. Showers are also
forecast for much of the mainland. Northerly winds strong to gusty in
the Aegean, with a chance of gale force intensity in the southern
Aegean, weakening by nightfall. Eight to 19C in the north; 11C to 24C
in the rest of the mainland and 14C to 22C on the islands. Clouds and
rain are expected for both Athens and Thessaloniki, temperatures
between 11C to 23C for the first, 9C to 19C for the latter.
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