Athens News Agency: News in English, 07-04-01

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[01] PASOK leader at youth conference

[01] PASOK leader at youth conference

"I came here to listen to you," Papandreou said in a brief address to the party's youth, noting that the country's youth would bring about its "resurrection" and shake things up.

"We guarantee a Greece with values, a Greece that will put moral principles first and will not be corrupted, with not be carried away by corruption, by the various 'cronies' and the various gangs that currently feed off the public sector, the social security funds, your future," he added.

He also reminded those present of the words of his father, PASOK founder Andreas Papandreou: "Youth that believes in itself cannot be stopped by anyone."

Finally, Papandreou expressed satisfaction with the work achieved by the congress so far and promised to return on Sunday.

"Your choices will be free choices, democratic choices according to your conscience. You have the power, you decide, you determine the future of PASOK's youth party. I will be with you, both as the opposition today and as a government tomorrow," he concluded.

A vote on article 16 of the Constitution was held on Sunday just before the congress came to an end on Sunday. The majority voted against the revision of the Article which would enable the founding of private universities.

Addressing the 6,000 delegates, PASOK Political Council member and head of the party�s Youth Department, Costas Skandalidis, underlined that ?there is no identity of views on the course of higher education,? saying that on the one hand, there�s the view of PASOK leader George Papandreou and of PASOK and on the other, ?the revision being advanced by the (Prime Minister Costas) Karamanlis government.?

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