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Athens News Agency: News in English, 08-04-18
CONTENTS
[01] Greece on FYROM 'note verbale'
[02] Book on "Wehrmacht children"
[01] Greece on FYROM 'note verbale'
Foreign ministry spokesman George Koumoutsakos said late Thursday
that a note verbale lodged earlier in the evening by FYROM with the
head of the Greek Liaison Office in Skopje, Ambassador Alexandra
Papadopoulou -- over the fact that no invitation for membership was
extended to FYROM at the recent NATO summit in Bucharest -- although
technically addressed to Greece, was in essence addressed to the
entire NATO alliance and the Joint Communique unanimously adopted in
Bucharest.
Koumoutsakos pointed out that the note verbale was lodged "15 days
after the NATO Summit in Bucharest, and just 4 days after the
proclamation of (early general) elections in the neighboring
country".
"In the midst, therefore, of the pre-election period, a note verbale
is lodged, technically with Greece, but in essence addresed to the
Alliance as a whole and the Joint Communique that was unanimously
adopted in Bucharest," Koumoutsakos stressed, replying to a question
on a late-night political program on NET television station.
FYROM deputy foreign minister Zoran Petrov called Papadopoulou to
the foreign ministry on Thursday night, to lodge a note verbale over
"Greece's hindrance" of the extension of an invitation to FYROM for
NATO membership at the alliance summit in Bucharest, claiming that
in doing so, Greece was in violation of Article 11 of the Interim
Agreement signed between the two countries in 1005.
Caption:ANA-MPA file photo of Foreign Ministry spokesman George
Koumoutsakos
[02] Book on "Wehrmacht children"
A book by a German historian on the "children of Wehrmacht", the
children of Greek women and German soldiers who were stationed in
Greece during WWII , will be in Greek and German bookstores in a few
months. Historian Kerstin Muth told ANA-MPA that her research in
Greece began in 2005 and lasted two years, stretching from the city of
Kavala in the north to the southern Aegean island of Crete. The issue
is still a taboo and people do not like to talk about it, she said,
adding out that it is important to bring these tragedies out in the
open talk about them and help those involved get rid of the "stigma" of
being the children of Nazi soldiers. Only six of the 10 "Wehrmacht
children" located by Muth in Greece agreed to talk to her and share
their experiences with her, while the rest refused any contact. The
book will be published in Germany in the fall of 2008 and in the spring
of 2009 in Greece.
Caption:ANA-MPA file photo
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