Athens News Agency: News in English, 02-05-26
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[01] ND leader tours S.E Aegean islands
[01] ND leader tours S.E Aegean islands
26/05/2002 11:13:04
Main opposition New Democracy (ND) leader Costas Karamanlis on Saturday
continued his tour of the Southeastern Aegean island of the Dodecanese,
by visiting the small island of Leros.
Following his visit to the island of Rhodes on Friday, Karamanlis
visited Leros and the islands state mental health hospital and was
briefed on problems faced by its employees.
Karamanlis also visited the islands of Lipsi, were he was briefed on
the islands problems with the islands sea transport system and received
the request for the establishment of medical clinics.
He also visited the island of Patmos, where he addressed the problem of
illegal immigration, on an island that is on the sea borders of Greece
with Turkey and called for a common European Union policy for the
confrontation of the problem.
Later in the day the ND leader visited the islands of Kalimnos and
Kos.
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