Athens Macedonian News Agency: News in English, 17-04-14

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From: The Athens News Agency at <http://www.ana.gr/>

CONTENTS

[01] Gov't spokesman Tzanakopoulos: We are on the final stretch

[02] Resurrection service from Patriarchal church of St. George live on ANA

[03] Holy Friday on the island of Syros, an unforgettable experience

[04] Twenty six migrants and refugees arrested on Rhodes

[01] Gov't spokesman Tzanakopoulos: We are on the final stretch

Tzanakopoulos did not deny that "some of the lenders do not want the Left to be recorded as the political force that will get the country out of the supervision and they constantly come up with demands with political and not purely economic focus"

"The government will promote interventions to support the people of labour, multiply the initiatives with aim the strengthening of democracy and freedom and proceed to the restoration of the social state with the few resources at our disposal" underlined the government spokesman.

On the negotiation, Tzanakopoulos referred to "a compromise based on mutual concessions... a manageable compromise, which may open the way for the exit from the programme and the supervision" he said adding that "despite IMF's irrational demands" we are now "on the final stretch".

Finally, he reiterated the government's position that the measures will be implemented "only under the condition that at the end of the programme in the summer of 2018, the mid-term measures for the Greek debt will have been already activated".

[02] Resurrection service from Patriarchal church of St. George live on ANA

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The service will start at 23:25 on Holy Saturday and will be completed at 02:45 Easter dawn.

[03] Holy Friday on the island of Syros, an unforgettable experience

All Epitaphs on Holy Friday leave from every Catholic or Orthodox Church in Ermoupolis (the capital of the Cycladic island of Syros and of all the islands of Cyclades) and meet at the Town Hall Square. The Epitaphs of the churches of Aghios Nikolaos, Metamorfosis and Kimisis tis Theotokou have the procession in Ermoupolis and around 10.30 they meet at Miaoulis square for the obsecration. At 8-9 o' clock the epitaph of the Catholic church of Evangelistria in Ermoupolis precedes passing by Miaouli square where the obsecration is held.

[04] Twenty six migrants and refugees arrested on Rhodes

The seven Iraqi nationals (four men, three women and nine children), five Syrians (two men, three women and four children) as well as a man from Libya have left from the opposite Turkish coasts.

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