From: than...@athena.mit.edu (Thanos Tsekouras)
Subject: Bulletin of News from the Athens News Agency for May 25, 1993
Date: 25 May 1993 17:54:32 GMT

To: Boston, USA		From: Geniki Grammateia Typoy	5-25-93 11:17 am

Bulletin, 25/05/1993
A.N.A. Athens 25/5/93 (ANA)  Czech President Vaclav Havel yesterday
expressed concern about the "depersonalisations and dehumanisation" of
politics in a world faced with "multiple threats".
	President Havel was one of the four winners of the prestigious
annual Alexander S. Onassis Foundation prizes, each of which is
accompanied by 100,000 dollars.
	The prizes were presented by President Constantine Karamanlis at
a glittering ceremony attended by ...
...

	Athens 25/5/93 (ANA)  President Constantine Karamanlis yesterday
received Prime Minister Constantine Mitsotakis for a briefing on the
course of foreign and domestic issues.
	Developments in the Skopje issue were the main topic of the
20-minute meeting, Mr Mitsotakis told reportes afterwards.
	Responding to press questions, the premier ruled out the
possibility of early elections, reiterating that elections will be held
at the end of the ruling party's four year term in office, by the end of
next year.

	National Defense Minister Ioannis Varvitsiotis left yesterday
for Brussels to attend the NATO Spring Meeting of the Interministerial
Defense Planning Committee, the sessions of which begin tomorrow.

	The EEC Development Council began its sessions yesterday in
Brussels, with Foreign Undersecretary George Papastamkos representing
Greece.
	The participants are considering issues of development policy,
the need for a grant of urgent humanitarian aid, the lack of essentials
in developing countries, and other subjects concerning the situation
prevailing in Africa.

	Athens 25/5/93 (ANA)  Armenia's Foreign Minister Vagan Papazian
is on an official visit to Athens at the invitation of his Greek
counterpart Michalis Papanonstantinou.
	During the visit, talks will be held on bilateral and
international issues and joint financial and foreign sector cooperation
protocols signed.

	The first meeting of the Forum for Peace in the Balkans - a
local administration initiative to develop friendship and cooperation
among Balkan countries - will convene in Thessaloniki in October.
	The decision was taken by mayors of 13 municipalities in
Thessaloniki and local administration representatives from Balkan
countries during a preparatory meeting held recently in Thessaloniki.
	Basic membership principles were approved so that about 250
representatives from municipalities of all the Balkan countries will be
invited to the conference.  The aim is for representatives from Albania,
rump Yogoslavia, Turkey, Romania, Slovenia, Skopje and the Serb Republic
of Krajina to come to Thessaloniki.
	Greek participation in the orginising committee will be
comprised of six Thessaloniki mayors (Thessalokini, Sykees,
Eleftheriou-Kordeliou, Stavroupolis, Kalamaria and Triandria), three
mayors from Macedonia and one mayor from Thrace while participation of
representatives from other regions in the country remains open.
	The proclamation issued by the mayors attending the preparatory
conference concludes with the wish that the conference will be a message
of peace and the beginning of fruitful contact between the Balkan
peoples "since we can and should continue to live together in this
peninsula".
	It also mentions the gathering of humanitarian aid collected by
Thessaloniki municipalities to create the second solidarity caravan for
children in the war in former Yugoslavia.

	Athens 25/5/93 (ANA)  Greece said yesterday it supported plans
of the Czech republic to join the European Community, NATO and other
international bodies.
	[This piece of news is about the meeting between the Czech
president and the Greek Prime Minister.]

	Paris 25/5/93 (ANA)  Culture Minister Dora Bakoyanni, speaking
on TV5, the French TV channel, said Greece was opposed to military
intervention in Yugoslavia for the simple reason it believed it would
merely lead to nothing.
	Greece's guardedness and belief in a political solution came
from its close proximity, she added.
	The minister said Greece had often been the target of numerous
attacks, but it was now sure that the whole world acknowledged that
Serbia had a clearly defined attitude while trying its best to implement
the Vance-Owen plan.  It was a pity, she said, that there had been no
sequel to what had begun in Athens, referring to the signing by the
Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic's of the Vance-Owen peace plan.
	Greece sought to establish conditions of permanent peace in the
Balkans having learnt the lessons of "ethnic cleansing" in Cyprus, she
said.
	Turning to the Skopje issue, she recalled that FYROM had been
set up as "Macedonia" by Tyto in order to create a Greater Macedonia
that would also include a part of Greece and Bulgaria.
	What mattered to Greece now, she said, was that FYROM should
learn to live and get on with Bulgarians, Greeks and Albanians.

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