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[01] Israel donates copies of Einstein's letters to Greek mathematician

[01] Israel donates copies of Einstein's letters to Greek mathematician

Presenting the photocopied letters to Deputy Foreign Minister Evripides Stylianides, Aviram said the meeting presaged the start of closer ties between Greece and Israel in a number of areas.

Stylianides said the cultural exchange signalled the desire of both countries to communicate and highlight the aspects that brought them closer together.

The Greek minister also announced that there would be an emphasis on Mediterranean markets in 2006 and that the government was planning a ministerial committee meeting and trip by a business delegation to Israel during the coming year.

"We are seeking to boost economic and political ties. Greece wants to play a stabilising and peacekeeping role in the region. It is an interlocutor accepted by all, that makes use of its good relations with Israel and gives to this role the economic dimension that is necessary for the future," Stylianides said.

Aviram said that bilateral trade has increased by 30 pct in the past two years and was balanced, while Greece was visited by 200,000 Israeli tourists in the past year.

Greece had officially requested copies of the 47 letters exchanged between the two men, as well as some of the original letters.

Stylianides noted that the letters were historic and highly valuable mementos of a friendship and cooperation that had helped the world progress.

"These findings, as well as others that are held in European and American universities, concerning the private life and work of Karatheodoris are destined for a museum bearing his name in Komotini, where he was born," the minister revealed.

Karatheodoris was born in 1873 and died in 1950, having achieved distinction at major German universities. Among his achievements was the foundation of the University of Izmir and the modernisation of the Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki.

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