From: than...@athena.mit.edu (Thanos Tsekouras)
Subject: Greek news for June 3, 1993
Date: 4 Jun 1993 04:25:17 GMT

To: New York		From: Genikh Grammateia Typou	6-3-93 8:31am
To: Boston		From: Greek Press Info Office 212-752-2056

Bulletin 03/06/1993

	Moscow, 3/6/1993 (Reuter)  Russian President Boris Yeltsin will
probably pay an official visit to Greece towards the end of this month
as long as the domestic scene at home remains calm, Interfax news agency
said yesterday.
	It quoted sources close to the president as saying an agreement
on bilateral relations would be signed during the visit.
	Yeltsin has called a meeting of a special assembly to prepare
the draft of a new constitution to help end Russia's political crisis.
He has made clear he wants the meeting, which starts Saturday, to be
over before the end of the month.

	Brussels, 3/6/1993 (ANA - P. Pantelis / K. Verros)  Five of the
12 European Community leaders decided yesterday to push for a
extraodinary EC summit to be held as soon as the troubled Maastricht
treaty had been ratified by all the Community states.
	Speaking during a recess at the European People's Party (EPP)
meeting in Brussels yesterday, Prime Minister Constantine Mitsotakis
said the proposal put forward by Chancellor Helmut Kohl was unanimously
accepted by all present, which included, apart from himself and Mr.
Kohl, the leaders of Holland, Luxembourg and Belgium.
	He said the special summit would attempt to put the ailing
process of European integration back on track and discuss the next stage
of implementation of the Maastricht treaty.
	Ratification of the treaty and preparations for the next EC
summit in Copenhagen dominated discussions at the meeting, Mr.
Mitsotakis said and he added that confidence had been expressed that the
treaty would be fully ratified by September.
	He also referred to the presentation of the Belgian EC
presidency's programme, whose priorities include the implementation of
the Maastricht treaty, the handling of the next phase of economic and
monetary union (EMU) that begins next year, Europe's course in the face
of the huge crises of recession and unemployment it is now facing and
the Community's expansion.
	Mr. Mitsotakis stressed that all sides agreed on the need to
apply the rules and criteria of unification.  "All European countries
must make their own efforts so that the total economy of Europe can
overcome the great difficulties... it is going through now", he said.
	With regard to Community expansion, Mr. Mitsotakis reported that
all countries had agreed to press ahead with the admission of the four
countries under discussion at present and to keep to the time schedule.
This will be followed by the next phase, he said, which includes the
Cyprus application.
	---The meeting also discussed the situation in former Yugoslavia
and Bosnia and, as an announcement said later, instisted on the
implementation of the Vance - Owen peace plan and the finding of a
political solution to the problem.
	After setting out Greece's positions against military
intervention, Mr. Mitsotakis successfully insisted on the deletion of a
phrase saying that NATO is ready to participate in combat operations.
	He said afterwards:  "No such issue is (being) posed.  What
should happen basically is the finding of a political solution which
will support the Vance - Owen plan".
	He explained that the Washington accord did not ignore the
Vance-Owen plan which is not perfect but constitutes a good starting
point".

	Brussels, 3/6/1993 (ANA - V. Zissis)  Prime Minister Constantine
Mitsotakis yesterday said that he considered it possible that the
Security Council would assume a new initiative over the next few days to
achieve rapprochement of views between Greece and Skopje.
	Following the rejection of the Vance - Owen proposals, Mr.
Mitsotakis said "the torch has now been passed to the Security Council
which can accept the Boutros Ghali proposal or make a fresh effort".
	"What I consider most probable is that it will make a fresh
effort for views to come even closer, he said, explaining that the new
effort will be undertaken mainly by the US, Russia, France, Britain,
Spain and the Security council Chairman.
	Speaking to reporters during his flight to Brussels yesterday to
attend the European People's Party summit, Mr. Mitsotakis strongly
criticised press reports that Greece is "directly negotiating" with
Skopje and that "there ia an agreement between Mitsotakis and (Skopjan
President Kiro) Gkligkorof".

	Athens 3/6/1993 (ANA)  Russian Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev
will visit Athens on June 14 and 15, foreign ministry spokesman Andreas
Papaconstantinou said yesterday.
	Mr. Kozyrev will also be in Athens on June 11 to take part in a
meeting of the NATO Cooperation committee which groups Alliance and
central and east european delegates.
	Apart from the meeting at the conference, Mr. Kozyrev and Foreign
Minister Michalis Papaconstantinou will confer separately, the spokesman
added.

	Athens, 3/6/1993 (ANA)  The chief of the British Army General
Staff, Sir Peter Egan, will pay a three-day visit to Greece beginning
June 6 at the invitation of his Greek counterpart Lieutenant-General
Efstratios Kapravelos.
	During his stay here, the British army chief will hold talks
with the political and military leadership of the national defence
ministry and visit a number of army units and archaeological sites.

	Athens, 3/6/1993 (ANA)  Greece supports the ratification of the
START II agreement restricting strategic and tactical nuclear weapons,
National Defence General Staff spokesman Lieutenant Colonel L.
Dermetzoglou said yesterday.
	The spokesman was responding to reports that Albania was to take
delivery of nuclear material.

	Anapa, (Russia), (ANA - C. Christodoulou)  Greece will support
the Russian government's efforts to develop its economy, Foreign
Undersecretary Virginia Tsouderou said yesterday during her talks at the
international conference on "Southern Russia: developmental prospects in
the reion: possibilites for cooperation with Black Sea and Mediterranean
countries".
	The two-day conference is aking place in what was once the Greek
town Gorgippi, now Anapa, in Krasnodar.
	Delegations from the countries of the former Soviet Union,
Cyprus, Italy, France, Egypt, Malta, turkey and others are attending.
Ms. Tsouderou is heading the Greek delegation, made up of
representatives from gevernment departments, research centres,
businesses, banks and local authorities.
	In its capacity as an EC country and especially during its term
as EC president, Greece will push for economic and technical help for
Russia and establish substantive cooperation between the countries of
the former USSR and the European Community, Ms. Tsouderou said.
	Apart from its general interest in helping Russia, Greece also
wants to help the thousands of Greeks in the area stay in the land they
were born in, she said.
	In collaboration with the authorities in Krasnodar, the Greek
government is already working on an aid plan to provide shelter and
employment to Krasnodar who have fled local unrest in surrounding areas.
	This plan is be discussed with Russian President Boris yeltsin,
who is expected to visit Athens in the near future.
	During her two-day stay in Krasnodar, Ms. Tsouderou will also
visit areas in which ethnic Greeks live to discuss the problems they are
facing.  During her first visit with presidents of Greek associations on
Tuesday, local inhabitants pointed out the need for more personnel to
staff the Greek school in the area.  This problem with initially be
addressed by sending two Greek teachers.

	Athens, 3/6/1993 (ANA)  National Defense Minister Ioannis
Varvitsiotis will visit Hungary and Austria during a trip which will
begin today and end June 8.
	Mr. Varvitsiotis will have talks in both countries on matters of
bilateral interest.
	In Hungary, Mr. Varvitsiotis will attend the "NATO workshop",
due to take place on June 4, and give a speech on "A Greek assessment of
the dangers stemming from the end of bipolarism".

	Athens, 3/6/1993 (ANA)  President Constantine Karamanlis
yesterday received Parliament President Athanassios Tsaldaris, who
briefed him on parliament's work for the summer recess.
	The president also received the rector of the Thessaloniki
University Antonis Trakatelis and the president of the International
Rotary Club, clifford Rochtermann, who was accompanied by members of the
presidium of the Greek branch of Rotary.

	Athens, 3/6/1993 (ANA)  The Greek army contingent to the UN
peace-keeping forces enforcing the armstice on the border of Kuwait and
Iraq will be ready to leave in three months time.
	The contigent will comprise of volunteer officers,
non-commissioned officers and will not exceed 400.

	Athens, 3/6/1993 (ANA)  UN Secretary General Boutros Boutros
Ghali's report on the Skopje issue, submitted to the Security Council on
May 28, was released in New York yesterday, confirming press reports
that mediators Lord David Owen and Cyrus Vance have proposed the name
"Nova Makedonija" for Skopje.
	Greece has rejected the draft report, but says there exists a
degree of agreement on the confidence-building measures.
	The report refers to a treaty drafted by Vance and Owen
confirming existing national borders and establishing measures for
confidence-building, freindship and neighbourly relations between Athens
and Skopje.
	The draft refers to the "principle of inviolability of frontiers
and territorial integrity of States which are incorporated in the Final
Act of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE)
signed in Helsinki".
	It bears in mind UN Charter provisions referring to the
"obligation of States to refrain in their international relations from
the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or
political independence of any state" and is also guided by the Helsinki
Final Act, the Charter of paris for a new Europe and other pertinent
acts of the CSCE.
	It expresses a desire to confirm existing frontiers as enduring
international borders and "recalls the obligation not to intervene, on
any pretext or in any form in the internal affairs of the other".
	The chapter on the confidence-building measures, states, in
Article 1, that "the Republic of Greece shall formally recognise the
Republic of Nova Makedonija and the Parties promptly establish relations
at the ambassadorial level" on ratification of the agreement.
	The confidence-building measures are, in part as follows:
	"Article 2: The Parties hereby confirm their common existing
frontier as an enduring and inviolable international border.
	"Article 3: Each party and undertakes to respect the sovereignty,
the territorial integrity and political independence of the other Party.
	"Article 4: The Parties shall refrain, in accordance with the
purpose and principle of the Charter of the United Nations, from the
threat of use of force designed to violate their existing frontier, and
they agree that neither of them will assert or support claims to any
part of the territory of the other Party or lcaims for a change of their
existing frontier.
	"Article 5: The Republic of Nova Makedonija hereby agrees to use
that name for all official purposes.
	"Article 6: 1. The Republic of Nova Makedonija hereby solemnly
declares that nothing in its constitution, and in particular in the
preamble thereto or in article 3, can be interpreted as constituting or
will ever constitute the basis of any claim by the Republic of Nova
Makedonija to any territory not within its existing frontiers.
	"2. The Republic of Nova Makedonija hereby solemnly declares
that nothing in its Constitution, and in particular in article 49, can be
interpreted as constituting or will ever constitute the basis of any
claim by the Republic of Makedonija specifically to protect the status
and rights of any persons in other states who are not its citizens.
	"3. The Republic of Nova Makedonija furthermore solemnly
declares that article 5, regarding the use of that name, and the
interpretation given in paragraphs 1 and 2 of article 6 of this
international Agreement will not be superseded by any other
interpretation of its Constitution.
	"Article 7: 1. Each Party shall promptly take effective measures
to prohibit hostile activities or propaganda by State-controlled
agencies and to discourage acts by private entities that are likely to
incite violence, hatred or hostility against each other, and especially
activities of an irrendentist nature against the other Party.
	"2. Each party undertakes not to use symbols, names flags,
monuments or emblems that constitute part of the historic or cultural
patrimony of the other Partyl in this regard, the Republic of Nova
Makedonija agrees,as a confidence-building measure, not to use the
Vergina Sun in any way.  Furthermore, each Party shall respect the
official geographic names and toponyms in the other country.
	"3. If either Party brings to the attention of the other any
alleged violation of paragraph 1 or 2, the latter shall promptly take
the necessary corrective action or indicate why it does not consider
that it need do so".

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