Athens News Agency: News in English, 01-05-28

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From: The Athens News Agency at <http://www.ana.gr/>

CONTENTS

[01] Exhibition-Jubilee-Stephanopoulos

[02] Foreign Exchange Rates - Tuesday

[03] Balkans-Black Sea-Conference

[04] New Firm-Finance-Communications

[05] Mytilineos-Power Station

[06] Weather Forecast-Tuesday

[01] Exhibition-Jubilee-Stephanopoulos

President Kostis Stephanopoulos on Monday inaugurated the exhibition titled "Great and Paradoxical Mystery" at the Byzantine and Christian Museum in the presence of Culture Minister Evangelos Venizelos and Archbishop of Athens and All Greece Christodoulos in the framework of events celebrating 2000 years since the birth of Christ.

Two hundred rare icons depicting Jesus Christ are on display at the exhibition.

[02] Foreign Exchange Rates - Tuesday

Buying rates for Tuesday

U.S. dollar 393.794

German mark 172.829

French franc 051.531

Pound sterling 558.899

Irish punt 429.202

Belgian franc 008.379

Luxembourg franc 008.379

Dutch guilder 153.389

Italian lira (100) 017.457

Austrian schilling 024.565

Danish kroner 45.322

Swedish kroner 37.311

Finnish mark 056.852

Spanish peseta 002.032

Portuguese escudo 001.686

Japanese yen (100) 325.081

Swiss franc 221.338

Norwegian kroner 42.725

Cyprus pound 585.833

Canadian dollar 255.052

Australian dollar 204.802

[03] Balkans-Black Sea-Conference

An international conference on economic cooperation in the Balkans and Black Sea after activation of the stability pact for the region will be held in Athens on June 13-14.

The conference is organised by Euroforum International London, in conjunction with the Council for Black Sea Economic Cooperation and the Greek-Turkish Chamber of Commerce.

Items on the conference's agenda will be discussed by representatives of business associations from countries of the European Union, Turkey and Greece and by officils of the governments of those countries.

The conference will be opened by Deputy National Economy Minister Ioannis Zafiropoulos, who will present Greece's plan for restructuring of the Balkans, due to be voted by parliament in coming days.

Among speakers at the conference will be the president of the Athens Stock Exchange, Panayotis Alexakis; the president of the telecoms commission, E. Yakoumakis; the deputy governor of the Bank of Greece, Panayotis Thomopoulos.

In addition, Transport and Communications Minister Christos Verelis will outline the government's plans for major infrastructure projects in the two sectors. Culture Minister Evangelos Venizelos will present projects for the 2004 Olympic Games to be hosted by Athens.

[04] New Firm-Finance-Communications

Palladian Communications Specialists has been set up to provide investor relations services for companies quoted on the Athens Stock Exchange, or firms seeking listing, its managing director, Yorgos Lymberis, said on Monday.

Presenting an accurate and comprehensible image of a company to investors including institutionals, fund managers, brokers and social insurance funds helped to boost a company stock's market value, Lymberis told a news conference.

Another service Pallandian will offer is corporate public relations with the media, he added.

[05] Mytilineos-Power Station

Mytilineos, an Athens-quoted metals trader, said on Monday that 23 engineering consultants from Greece and abroad had expressed interest in producing a study for a 246 megawatt electricity production plant it wants to build.

The 246 megawatt plant is to be built in Volos, eastern mainland Greece, Mytilineos said in a statement.

A shortlist of consultants who expressed interest would be drawn up by the end of June with the winner to be selected in July, the statement said.

Finally, the Mytilineos Group is continuing talks with major energy companies abroad in order to sound out the prospects of forging strategic alliances, it added.

[06] Weather Forecast-Tuesday

Sunshine is forecast throughout the country on Tuesday. Winds north-northwesterly, moderate to strong, turning very strong in parts of the southeastern Aegean. In the north, temperatures will range from 14C to 29C; on the rest of the mainland from 16C to 30C; and in the islands from 18C to 28C. Sunny in Athens, with temperatures between 18C and 31C. Same in Thessaloniki, with temperatures from 16C to 28C.

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