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Athens News Agency: News in English, 06-12-02
CONTENTS
[01] DM Evangelos Meimarakis gives interview to Athens newspaper
[01] DM Evangelos Meimarakis gives interview to Athens newspaper
Defence Minister Evangelos Meimarakis gave an interview to the Athens
newspaper "Imerisia", stressing that "our programme is for elections to
be held at the end of the four-year term and from then on, of course,
we must be prepared, and we are, for whatever might happen at any
moment" and underlining the importance of the election law for
achieving stability in the country.
"The election law must be a tool of stability, it must not function in
a chaotic fashion and, of course, it must not create a lack of
correlation between the will of the people and the majority in
Parliament regarding the first party," he said.
He further said that "the first party must have a comfortable
Parliamentary majority that will allow it to implement the programme
for which it was voted into power."
The minister also referred to the technical issue that appeared with a
private company regarding the question of the submarine "Papanikolis",
considering it an isolated event and expressing certainty that "in no
way does it cast a shadow on relations between the two countries or
between the two governments."
Focusing on relations with Turkey, Meimarakis said "it is premature to
speak of a possible reversal in the climate of our relations with
Turkey", due to a possible slowdown in relations between Europe and
Turkey and expressed the hope that the attitude of the neighbouring
country will be fully adjusted to the preconditions necessitated by its
European prospects, that also include relations of good neighbourliness
with Greece.
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