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Macedonian Press Agency: News in English, 2004-06-25

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From: The Macedonian Press Agency at http://www.mpa.gr and http://www.hri.org/MPA.


MACEDONIAN PRESS AGENCY Thessaloniki, June 25, 2004

SECTIONS

  • [A] NATIONAL NEWS
  • [B] INTERNATIONAL NEWS

  • NEWS HEADLINES

    [A] NATIONAL NEWS

  • [01] REHHAGEL: IF WE FALL, WE WILL FALL LIKE HEROES
  • [02] HALKI ON THE AGENDA
  • [03] ONLY THE GREEK POLICE WILL BE ARMED IN THE OLYMPICS
  • [04] IFIGENIA PAPAGIANNOPOULOU DIED LAST NIGHT
  • [05] LOSSES IN THE ASE
  • [06] CODE OF ETHICS IN THE SECTOR OF TOURISM
  • [07] SAE AND THE ARCHBISHOPRIC OF ALBANIA TO FOUND A MEDICAL CENTER IN HIMARA
  • [B] INTERNATIONAL NEWS

  • [08] THE MAYOR OF LONDON BACKS THE RETURN OF THE PARTHENON MARBLES TO GREECE
  • [09] JACQUES ROGGE AND DENIS OSWALD CARRIED THE TORCH IN LAUSANNE NEWS IN DETAILS

    [A] NATIONAL NEWS

  • [01] REHHAGEL: IF WE FALL, WE WILL FALL LIKE HEROES "If we fall, we will fall like heroes", stated Greek national football team coach Otto Rehhagel in a press conference he gave yesterday a few hours before this evening's quarterfinal in which the Greek team will play opposite France in the Euro 2004 Tour nament.

    He said that Greece was a big upset in the European Championship and such tournaments want such surprises. There is always a surprise-team that moves ahead. However, only the best teams play in the finals. If we fall, we will fall like heroes, said Mr. R ehhagel.

    The Greek football players assure that they are not defeatist and will fight to win France, the current European football champion.

    It is estimated that about 6,000 Greek football fans will cheer for the Greek national team in the Lisbon stadium where the most important match in the history of the Greek football will take place at 9:45pm this evening (Greek time).

  • [02] HALKI ON THE AGENDA The Greek-Turkish relations and the reopening of the Theology School of Halki will be on the agenda of the talks in the three separate meetings Greek Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis will have with his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan on the side lines of the NATO Summit meeting in Istanbul.

    Ankara will announce the reopening of the Theology School of Halki to US President George Bush during his visit to Turkey.

    Athens has denied that Ankara has asked anything in return for the reopening of Halki.

  • [03] ONLY THE GREEK POLICE WILL BE ARMED IN THE OLYMPICS Only the Greek police officers will be armed during the Athens Olympic Games. Nobody else, except from the Greek security forces, will be allowed to be armed when inside the Olympic facilities.

    Minister of Public Order Giorgos Voulgarakis stressed on the issue that armed guards will be allowed only for the protection of heads of states and clarified that the specific clause concerns the security escorts for Greek and foreign VIPS for whom there

    is a special status in effect internationally.

    Mr. Voulgarakis reiterated categorically that there will be no armed security escorts with the national Olympic teams which will be in Athens in August.

    He also announced that people will be able to report anything suspicious during the Olympic Games by calling the telephone number 1014.

    Speaking before the special parliamentary committee, Mr. Voulgarakis stated that NATO will monitor the airspace and will assist in the case of radio-biochemical threats.

    NATO announced formally yesterday through its general secretary that it will assist Greece in its effort to host safe Olympic Games in the period of August 13-29.

  • [04] IFIGENIA PAPAGIANNOPOULOU DIED LAST NIGHT Ifigenia Papagiannopoulou a well-known songwriter, radio producer and journalist, died last night at the age of 40 probably from allergic shock to a medicine she received.

    She had worked for many newspapers and magazines like "TO ETHNOS" and "Epikerotita" and in theater productions making adaptations of children's theater plays, while she had also collaborated with great names in music and theater among them, music compose rs Mimis Plessas and Thanasis Polikandriotis.

  • [05] LOSSES IN THE ASE Losses were recorded in the Athens Stock Exchange today. The general index dropped to -1.11% at 2313.50 points, while the volume of transactions was at 127.8 million euros.

    Of the stocks trading today, 57 had gains and 250 had losses, while the value of 87 stocks remained unchanged.

  • [06] CODE OF ETHICS IN THE SECTOR OF TOURISM The Ministry of Tourism, which will be renamed into Ministry of Tourist Development, will present a code of tourist ethics and professional conduct issued for the first time and concerns the tourist sector.

    The above announced Minister of Tourism Dimitris Avramopoulos addressing the Greek Journalists' Conference held for a 12th year in the north Aegean island of Samothraki.

    The Tourist Ministry goal is to attract other visitors as well and not only the "fanatic" fans of the Olympic Games, who watch them every time they take place. Another goal is to boost the tourist sector to correspond to 35% of the GDP in the next decade


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