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Athens News Agency: News in English, 05-09-13
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[01] PM Karamanlis departs for UN summits, to meet with UN chief Annan
[01] PM Karamanlis departs for UN summits, to meet with UN chief Annan
Prime minister Costas Karamanlis is due to meet with UN Secretary
General Kofi Annan shortly after midnight Tuesday (Greek time) in New
York, where the premier was due to arrive two hours earlier to attend a
UN General Assembly summit that opens the following day and Wednesday's
UN Security Council summit.
Karamanlis, who is accompanied by foreign minister Petros Molyviatis,
deputy foreign ministers Yannis Valynakis and Evripides Stylianidis,
deputy government spokesman Evangelos Antonaros and other officials,
was due to discuss with Annan a series of matters related to the
international community, given that Greece holds a non-permanent member
seat on the UN Security Council for the two-year term 2005-2006.
The two men were also expected to discuss the Cyprus issue, as well as
the UN's mediation efforts in the FYROM name issue.
After the meeting with Annan, Karamanlis was scheduled to attend a
reception hosted by US president George Bush in honur of the more than
180 foreign heads of state and government that are in New York for the
September 14-16 UN General Assembly world summit.
On Wednesday, Karamanlis will take part in the UN Security Council
summit meeting.
The Greek premier was due to address the UN General Assembly summit on
Friday at 5:45 p.m. (Greek time), while he would also take part on
Thursday in a round-table discussion on reforms to the Security
Council, an international conference on financing for development, and
an informal meeting of the Francophone countries, and hold bilateral
sideline meetings with many of the attending heads of state and
government,
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