Athens News Agency: News in English, 06-04-06
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[01] Education minister in China on official visit
[01] Education minister in China on official visit
Greek Education Minister Marietta Yiannakou arrived in China on
Thursday for an official visit that kicked off outside the Greek
Studies Centre at Beijing's University of Foreign Languages.
Yiannakou is in Beijing at the invitation of Chinese Education Minister
Zhou Ji and will sign a memorandum for bilateral cooperation in
education between Greece and China on Friday.
Standing outside the Greek Studies Centre, with a sign in incongruously
familiar Greek script, Yiannakou stressed that its existence met
Greece's efforts to propagate both the modern and ancient Greek
languages.
The minister also noted that the Athens Olympics had been an
opportunity to strengthen ties between Greece and China, two countries
linked by their long history.
On Thursday, Yiannakou met with the authorities of the university, who
expressed great interest in Greece's Olympic Education programme.
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