Athens News Agency: News in English, 03-06-13

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

CONTENTS

[01] Greek and Turkish FMs hold telephone talks

[02] European conference opens on 'Media and Disability'

[03] Foreign Exchange Rates - Monday

[04] Weather Forecast: Temperature edges up on Saturday

[05] Profit taking halts rally of prices in ASE

[01] Greek and Turkish FMs hold telephone talks

Greek Foreign Minister and EU Council of Foreign Affairs President George Papandreou held telephone talks with his Turkish counterpart Abdullah Gul on Friday afternoon.

According to a foreign ministry announcement, the Greek and Turkish foreign ministers discussed the infringements and violations in the Aegean, the course of reforms in Turkey, developments in the Middle East as well as the issues which will be debated at the European Union simmit in Thessaloniki next week.

[02] European conference opens on 'Media and Disability'

A two-day European conference on ''Media and Disability'', organised by the health and welfare ministry in the framework of the European Union's Greek presidency and the European Year of the disabled in 2003, was inaugurated on Friday by Health and Welfare Minister Costas Stefanis.

Emphasis was placed during the first day of the conference on the fact that the media must develop and strengthen their cooperation with organisations of disabled people with the purpose of highlighting issues concerning disabled people and improving the way of presentation.

Speakers at the conference stressed that disabled people continue to be ''invisible citizens'' in European societies due to branding and prejudice.

''The way with which disabled people are treated depicts the degree of culture characterising a society,'' Stefanis said in his address.

[03] Foreign Exchange Rates - Monday

Reference buying rates per euro released by the European Central Bank

U.S. dollar 1.184

Pound sterling 0.710

Danish kroner 7.483

Swedish kroner 9.140

Japanese yen 139.5

Swiss franc 1.561

Norwegian kroner 8.216

Cyprus pound 0.591

Canadian dollar 1.595

Australian dollar 1.782

[04] Weather Forecast: Temperature edges up on Saturday

The day will be sunny in all parts of the country. Winds northerly, light to strong. In the Ionian, temperatures will range from 23C to 35C; on the mainland from 19C to 37C; and in the Aegean islands from 24C to 32C. Temperatures in Athens between 25C and 36C; and in Thessaloniki from 23C to 35C.

[05] Profit taking halts rally of prices in ASE

Greek stocks ended the last trading session of a positive week with losses as many investors preferred to take profits after a several-day advance and ahead of the weekend in the Athens Stock Exchange.

The general index ended 0.91 percent lower at 1,910.6 points for a net gain of 1.81 percent in the week, or 11.89 percent higher in the first 10 sessions of June.

The Telecommunications and Cement sectors suffered the heaviest percentage losses of the day (2.76 percent and 1.98 percent, respectively), while the Publication and Insurance sectors scored the biggest gains (9.07 percent and 1.29 percent, respectively).

The FTSE/ASE 20 index for blue chip and heavy traded stocks fell by 0.89 percent, the FTSE/ASE MID 40 index eased 0.46 percent and the FTSE/ASE SmallCap 80 index fell 0.27 percent.

Broadly, decliners led advancers by 189 to 135 with another 38 issues unchanged and turnover was a heavy 242.2 million euros.

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