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Athens Macedonian News Agency: News in English, 12-05-14
CONTENTS
[01] NATO Sec-Gen: No change in Alliance position over fYRoM
[02] Hydrofoils to link Samos with Dodecanese; Turkish resorts
[01] NATO Sec-Gen: No change in Alliance position over fYRoM
SKOPJE (AMNA - N. Frangopoulos) -- There has been no change in NATO's
position concerning the accession of the former Yugoslav Republic of
Macedonia (fYRoM) ahead of the Chicago summit, NATO Secretary General
Anders Fogh Rasmussen said on Monday, in statements to the radio station
Radio Free Europe.
Rasmussen said the Alliance's position was still based on the decision
taken at the Bucharest summit in 2008, which called for the start of
accession negotiations after Greece and fYRoM had agreed to a mutually
acceptable solution to the name dispute.
"Unfortunately, there has not been progress in this
direction. Nevertheless, the decision we took four years ago continues
to apply," Rasmussen stressed.
[02] Hydrofoils to link Samos with Dodecanese; Turkish resorts
AMNA / As of Tuesday the eastern Aegean island of Samos will be linked
with the Dodecanese islands to its south through hydrofoils.
Samos' port of Pythagorio will be linked with Kos every Tuesday,
Wednesday, Friday and Sunday with stopovers on the islands of Patmos,
Leros and Kalymnos, while hydrofoils will also service the islet of
Agathonissi twice a week. After June 16, the route will be serviced more
frequently. amna
Local entrepreneurs have also begun contacts with Turkish counterparts
ahead of the new coastal shipping route linking Seferihisar, near Izmir
on the Turkish coast, and Carlovassi on Samos. A catamaran will make
the two-hour voyage between Samos and Seferihisar, linking the eastern
Aegean island with the five-million-people-strong tourist market in the
greater Izmir region. www.amna.gr
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