Subject: News I, 11/08/93
From: zarros@turing.scs.carleton.ca (Theodoros Sp. Zarros)

        Athens News Agency Bulletin, August 11, 1993
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	Athens, 11/8/93 (ANA) - Inflows from  European Community
regional funds  totalled 790.4 million European currency units
in July, National Economy Under-secretary Aristides Tsiplakos
said yesterday. He said that 3,200 billion ECU had been received
since the programme's inception in 1989, with a further 800
million ECU expected to be received before the programme's
completion at the end of this year.

	Athens, 11/8/93 (ANA) - Farm subsidies from both national and
European Community sources totalled 445.9 million Drs in the
first seven months of 1993, rising 36 per cent over the same
period last year, the Agricultural Bank of Greece (ATE) said
yesterday. FEOGA moneys distributed by the bank in the period
January 1, July 31, 1993 for structural projects had totalled
1,431 million Drs, it added.

	Athens, 11/8/93 (ANA) - Three Greek men have been arrested on
Samos for attempting to smuggle 31 illegal immigrants from
Pakistan into Greece on a private yacht, police said yesterday. 
      They said the owner of the "Orne II", Michalis Georgarios,
his brother Ioannis, a third man identified as Nikos Kappos and
the illegal migrants have been arraigned before a local court.

	Athens, 11/8/93 (ANA) - An earthquake measuring 5 on the
open-ended Richter scale was recorded 37 kilometres south of
Thessaloniki just before 9 am yesterday, the Athens Geodynamic
Institute said yesterday. It said the quake's epicentre was in
the eastern Thermaikos gulf.

	Athens, 11/8/93 (ANA) - Foreign Minister Michalis
Papaconstantinou will pay an official visit to Cyprus in
mid-September the foreign ministry said yesterday. It said Mr
Papaconstantinou had accepted an invitation extended Monday by
his Cypriot counterpart, Alecos Michailidis.

	Athens, 11/8/93 (ANA) - Prime Minister Constantine Mitsotakis
will chair a meeting of the inner cabinet today, the government
said in an announcement yesterday. It said the meeting would
discuss OTE's partial privatisation and other domestic policy
issues.

	Athens, 11/8/93 (ANA) - National Defence Minister Ioannis
Varvitsiotis, Navy General Staff Chief Vice Admiral Heracles
Drikos, Fleet Commander Vice Admiral Grigoris Demestichas and
other officials yesterday visited the Salamis navy yard to
inspect the submarine "Triton" and the recently acquired frigate
"Aegean". The "Triton" is the first of four Glafcos-class
submarines purchased by the Greek navy. It was upgraded in
Kielo, Germany by the HMD-IKL consortium; the other three will
be upgraded at the Salamis yard. Mr Varvitsiotis went on board
the "Triton" and the "Aegean", which Greece recently purchased
from Holland.

	Athens, 11/8/93 (ANA) - Greece said yesterday that it had
formally stated to NATO  its opposition to military intervention
in Bosnia while reiterating the need for a political solution.
"Greece constantly makes known to NATO its position in favour of
a political solution to the Bosnian problem and against military
intervention. The Greek reservation on the issue were set out in
writing on Sunday in the plan approved by the NATO Military
Committee concerning possible military intervention against the
Bosnian Serbs", foreign ministry spokesman Andreas
Papaconstantinou said. The spokesman underlined the importance
of the NATO Council decision that any military action would have
to be first authorised by UN Secretary-General Boutros  Boutros
Ghali. Mr Papaconstantinou said that Greece's permanent NATO
representative, Dimitris Petrounakos, had once again expressed
to the Alliance Greece's unswerving position on the need for a
political solution. He said Mr Petrounakos had underlined that
the military option would not lead to the desirable solution and
reiterated that under no circumstance would Greece take part in
military operations. Mr Petrounakos had also stressed to the
Alliance that no other Balkan country should take part in
operations, the spokesman added. Implementation of the plan
approved by Nato's military committee would escalate the clashes
in former Yugoslavia and poses the risk of broadening the
crisis, the Coalition of the Left and Progress said in a
statement yesterday. "The Coalition firmly insists that Greece
must contribute, with all its resources, to resolving the crisis
through political means and averting the use of military power,
"it said.