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Greek Minority in Albania: Greek and Albanian PMs Meet on the Sidelines of the UN General Assembly |
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Monday, 19 September 2005 |
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Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis held a meeting with his
Albanian counterpart Sali Berisha in a very good climate, on the sidelines of
the UN General Assembly here on Thursday and, according to government sources,
the two leaders discussed bilateral relations and exchanged invitations to visit
each other's country. It was the prime minister's first meeting with Berisha,
following his election to the premiership of the neighbouring country. Special
reference was made during the meeting to the ethnic Greek minority and Berisha
mentioned that his government includes a minister of Greek origin.
Karamanlis attended the UN General Assembly's sessions since
the morning, while Deputy Foreign Ministers Evripidis Stylianidis and Yiannis
Valynakis represented Greece at the General Assembly's roundtable discussion
and at the informal Francophony session.
According to Greek diplomatic sources, Foreign Minister Petros
Molyviatis might be meeting with the special mediator on the issue of the Former
Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia's (FYROM) name Matthew Nimetz in the next few
days. a
The same sources said that Greece has expressed its positions
on proposals made by Nimetz and will not discuss the possibility of a double
name. They also added that no new initiative and no new proposal is expected
at the moment on the part of the special mediator.
Source: Athens
News Agency
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