From: miltos@nfl2.irc.nrc.ca
Subject: News (in ENGLISH)- Fri, 5 Nov 1993 (Greek Press Office BBS, Ottawa).

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        Athens, 5/11/93(ANA)--The details of Prime  Minister  An-
dreas  Papandreou's  visit to the United States will be organised
through diplomatic channels, government spokesman Enangelos  Ven-
izelos said yesterday.
        Mr Venizelos was replying to  press   questions  that  US
president Bill Clinton would visit Athens and Nicosia. He said he
had no information about any trip by President Clinton to Athens,
adding that official visits were often reciprocated.

        Athens, 5/11/93(ANA)--Premier Andreas Papandreou  yester-
day  received the ambassador of New Yugoslavia, Mr M.Miludanovic,
who conveyed to him a personal message from Serb President Slobo-
dan  Milosevic.The  object  of  the meeting was to give the Greek
government a fuller briefing on the situation in former  Yugosla-
via.



        Bonn,5/11/93(ANA-P.Stangos)--Alternate  Foreign  Minister
Theodoros Pangalos yesterday warned that a ''major problem' would
be created at the EC Council of Foreign Ministers on  Monday,  in
Brussels,  if  Britain  continued  to  oppose  a proposal for the
despatch of an EC observer to the Cyprus talks.
        Mr Pangalos, visiting Germany for talks with his counter-
part  Klaous  Kinkel int he framework of preparations  in view of
Greece's presidency of the EC, said that ''despite certain reser-
vations Mr kinkel had no objection to the despatch of a Community
observer''.
        Mr Pangalos and Mr Kinkel discussed European  policy  is-
sues  and the possibiilty of ''joint action'' in the framework of
the Common Policy on Safety and Foreign Affairs decided last week
at the EC summit in Brussels.
        Referring to the EC-Turkey Association Council  convening
also  on  Monday  in  Brussels,  Mr Pangalos said ''the Community
should first of all exhibit an  interest  in  Cyprus''  stressing
that  unless  Turkey  changed  its attitude on the Cyprus problem
''the fourth financial protocol will remain frozen for ever''.
        On the Skopje issue,  Mr  Pangalos  told  reporters  that
''Greece will not make a move''.
        ''Skopje should make a move by ceasing  provocations  be-
cause  the  issue does not refer only to the name and emblems but
also to the non-recognition from their  side  of  existing  bord-
ers'', Mr Pangalos said.


        Athens,5/11/93(ANA)--The Greek government will  reply  to
European Commissioner for external relations Hans van den Broek's
request that Greece contribute to the economic  aid  extended  to
Skopje, government spokesman Evangelos Venizelos said yesterday.
        Mr Venizelos said that when the issue would arise at  the
EC Council of Foreign Ministers, the Commissioner would receive a
reply from Alternate Foreign Minister Theodore Pangalos.
        The  framework  within  which  the  Greek  government  is
operating  is  clear,  Mr Venizelos said, observing that the only
engagement assumed by the New Democracy government was the supply
of humanitarian aid to Skopje.


        Athens, 5/11/93(ANA)--The letter setting our Greece's po-
sitions  on the Skopje issue was due to be delivered yesterday to
UN Secretary General Boutros Boutros Ghali, government  spokesman
Evangelos Venizelos said.
        The spokesman said that the letter was forwarded  Wednes-
day  night to Greece's permanent representative at the UN, Ambas-
sador Antonis Exarchos.
        The contents of the letter will be made public immediate-
ly  after  it  has  been  delivered to the UN chief, Mr Venizelos
said.


        United Nations,  5/11/93(ANA-M.Georgiadou)--According  to
reliable  sources,  the  Former  Yugoslav  Republic  of Macedonia
(FYROM) is finding no response to its efforts to prove it is  the
''innocent  party''  wishing  the continuation of negotiations on
differences with Greece.
        The sources say FYROM is attempting to promote a  resolu-
tion  initially  with  the General Assembly's first committee and
then the agency's plenary session'' on  supporting  relations  of
good  neighbourliness  between Balkan countries and the taking of
common confidence-building measures in various sectors  aimed  at
strengthening peace, security and cooperation in the region''.
        The plan underlines that  the  ''immediate  accession  of
Balkan  countries to European organisations and more specifically
the improvement of their relations with  the  European  Community
will positively influence the political and economic situation in
the region''.
        According to the sources, Bulgaria and Romania  have  al-
ready been briefed on the plan but have so far avoided expressing
an opinion or agreeing to support it.
 (E.P.)