Athens News Agency: News in English, 01-05-12

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From: The Athens News Agency at <http://www.ana.gr/>

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[01] ND leader - FYROM visit

[02] Weather - Sunday

[01] ND leader - FYROM visit

SKOPJE (ANA) -- Greeces main opposition leader arrived in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) on Saturday for meeting with the strife-ridden Balkans state leadership after coming from Belgrade.

New Democracy leader Costas Karamanlis, on a tour of the western Balkans as part of a European Peoples Party (EPP) initiative, met with FYROM Prime Minister Ljubco Georgievski and Albanian Democratic Party leader Arben Xhaferi. The meetings came one day after most of the countrys top political leaders concluded an agreement to form a broad government coalition that will include ethnic Albanian parties.

?Im visiting Skopje for a second time in such a short period because developments in this country have troubled us? and because we have been assigned an EPP initiative for democratisation in the western Balkans,? the ND leader said.

?I hope and trust that the formation of a national unity government with the participation of all political parties, including the Albanian parties, of course, will meet its goals.?

[02] Weather - Sunday

Rain and thunderstorms are forecast for the east and south parts of the country on Sunday, improving later in the day. Showers are also forecast for much of the mainland. Northerly winds strong to gusty in the Aegean, with a chance of gale force intensity in the southern Aegean, weakening by nightfall. Eight to 19C in the north; 11C to 24C in the rest of the mainland and 14C to 22C on the islands. Clouds and rain are expected for both Athens and Thessaloniki, temperatures between 11C to 23C for the first, 9C to 19C for the latter.

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