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Athens News Agency: News in English, 08-02-28
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[01] PM meets tourism minister
[01] PM meets tourism minister
Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis conferred Thursday with Tourism
Development Minister Aris Spiliotopoulos at the Maximos Mansion, the
government headquarters, in Athens. After the meeting, Spiliotopoulos
stressed that they had exchanged views on tourism development and the
prospects for Greece's tourism product considering the increasingly
competitive environment. He stressed that Greece is focused on diverse
and viable tourism combined with a well-targeted promotion campaign.
On Wednesday, Karamanlis chaired a meeting of the inner cabinet that
approved the national spatial plan presented by Environment, Town
Planning and Public Works Minister George Souflias and a meeting of the
Government Council on Foreign Affairs and Defence (KYSEA) that named
Lt.-Gen. Vassilis Tsiatouras as the new chief of the Greek Police.
"Greece has for the first time acquired a comprehensive spatial plan,"
Souflias said in statements after the meeting, adding that the plan he
presented was one of the most important reforms to take place in Greece
in the last decades and would allow Greece to achieve well-rounded
development with absolute respect for the environment.
"This means, quite simply, that everyone will know what they can do and
where and all activities will have rules that are known in advance," he
stressed.
Caption: ANA-MPA file photograph of Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis.
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