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Date: Mon, 12 Jul 93 14:43:36 EDT

  bulletin,  12/ 07/1993 ( )
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 Bulletin Athens News Agency

        Athens, 12/7/93(ANA)--Prime Minister Constantine Mitsotakis met 
yesterday in Mykonos with President Constantine Karamanlis.
        Following the 50-minute long meeting, Mr Mitsotakis said there was 
proximity of views in the handling of the problems facing the country, 
adding that Greek-Albanian relations and developments in the Skopje 
issue had also been discussed.
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        Athens, 12/7/93(ANA)--Ecumenical Patriarch Vartholomeos 
criticised western Europe and the Vatican in an address he made in St 
Petersburg yesterday.
        According to ET-1 TV, Vartholomeos said European unification 
would prove a futile Utopia if it disregarded the variety and diversity of 
cultures and embarked on the imposition of western European culture,a 
culture determined in many ways by the Roman Catholic and Protestant 
churches.
        Referring indirectly but clearly to the Vatican, the Ecumenical 
Patriarch said Orthodoxy constituted and will continue to constitute the 
dominant cultural force in eastern Europe and the Balkans,adding that all 
efforts to question this truth have led to the current deadlocks Europe is 
faced with.
        The Ecumenical Patriarch arrived in Moscow Saturday  where he 
was welcomed by the Patriarch of Moscow  and All Russia Alexios II. In 
talks, both agreed that rapid and sudden changes in Russia were a 
mistake,resulting in today's dense economic,social and political climate.
        The Patrharch's visit will last nine days and he is then due to visit 
Serbia on August 5 and Romania immediately afterwards.In September he 
will visit Rhodes and a month later, Athens.
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        Athens, 12/7/93(ANA)--An earthquake registering 4.7 on the Richter 
scale rocked the Kylini region in the prefecture of Ilias late Saturday 
night.
        No damage or casualties were reported. ana

        Athens,12/7/93(ANA)--Mykonos'acute water supply problem will 
finally be resolved,Prime Minister Constantine Mitsotakis said Saturday, 
when he inaugurated the Marathia dam  and laid the foundation stone of 
the Ano Mera dam on the island.
        The two dams are part of the 39 dams to be constructed nationwide 
in an attempt to forestall further water supply and irragation problems.
        The Ano Mera dam is expected to cost one billion dr and hold one 
million cubic metres of water. The premier said the same modern 
technology which has been successfully used abroad will be applied in the 
construction  of the dam, adding that water from the Ano Mera dam will 
be used both for the needs of the local community and the island in 
general.
        He said a road providing access to the dam  had already been built 
and the dam itself was expected to be opened in a year's time.
        The government's plans to combat water shortage in rural areas  was 
''radical'', Mr Mitsotakis said, with most of the projects expected to have 
been completed by the end of the year or early 1994.
        ''The agriculture ministry has already concluded tendering for 39 
projects valued at 25 billion dr which are under construction  and 30 of 
which are expected to be completed in 1993.In the Cyclades prefecture 
alone, tendering has been completed for seven reservoirs and dams valued 
at 5.6 billion dr'', he said.
        Mr Mitsotakis said the Marathia dam cost 1.1 billion dr and has a 
capacity of 2.9 million cubic metres of water, adding that it finally 
resolves the water supply problem faced by Mykonos due to the increased 
influx of tourists in the summer months.