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Athens News Agency: News in English, 05-09-15
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[01] PM discusses bilateral relations with Albanian counterpart
[01] PM discusses bilateral relations with Albanian counterpart
NEW YORK (ANA - A. Panagopoulos) - 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.
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.
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