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Athens News Agency: News in English, 08-12-01
CONTENTS
[01] KKE query on health sector
[02] Replacement for Vatopedi Abbot
[01] KKE query on health sector
Communist Party of Greece (KKE) MPs tabled a question in Parliament on
Monday directed to the ministry of health regarding what the party
deputies call the "unacceptable situation in the sector of health". In
their tabled question, the communist MPs also pointed to the situation
as emanating from the "results of a privatisation policy." The
question, signed at the top by KKE General Secretary Aleka Papariga,
charges that a continuous deterioration of problems in the health
sector is the result of political decisions made by the current
government and by previous PASOK governments. The KKE MPs also blame
their leftist rival in Parliament, the Radical Left Coalition (SYRIZA),
for "maintaining that controlled business activities and fulfilling
people's needs can co-exist."
Caption: ANA-MPA file photo of KKE leader Aleka Papariga.
[02] Replacement for Vatopedi Abbot
The administrative responsibilities relinquished by Vatopedi Monastery
Abbot Ephraim, following his closely watched meeting with Ecumenical
Patriarch Bartholomew I in Istanbul last week, will be turned over to
Monk Germanos, according to a relevant decision by the Mount Athos
monastery's eight-member monastic council on Monday. Ephraim will
continue to be the eponymous monastery's Abbot and exercise his
spiritual duties. The Mount Athos community, the supreme
administrative body of the autonomous all-male Orthodox monastic
community located on a promontory in northern Greece, will convene a
joint meeting of all 20 monastery representatives and abbots on Tuesday
to discuss the latest developments in the monastic community --
particularly the politically charged Vatopedi land swaps with the
state. Caption: ANA-MPA file photo of the Vatopedi Monastery on Mount
Athos.
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