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Athens News Agency: News in English, 08-02-29Athens News Agency: News in English Directory - Previous Article - Next ArticleFrom: The Athens News Agency at <http://www.ana.gr/>CONTENTS
[01] Liapis at New Acropolis MuseumCulture minister Michalis Liapis on Friday gave a tour of the New Acropolis Museum to more than 350 travel agents of the "Virtuoso" travel organisation, who are in Greece for their annual conference, which is being held in Athens for the first time.In a brief address, Liapis said that "tourism and culture go hand-in-hand, as the country's tourism identity bears the stamp of its cultural heritage". Referring to Athens in particular, he said it was a city that played a leading role in all sectors in the Balkan neighborhood. He further noted that the New Acropolis Musuem's official inauguration would take place in the coming autumn. New Acropolis Museum Organisation president, Professor Dimitris Pantermalis, underlined the importance of the new Museum, and also its role regarding Greece's standing demand for the return of the Parthenon Marbles from the British Museum. [02] Justice minister at EU CouncilJustice Minister Sotiris Hatzigakis addressed the European Union's Council of Justice and Internal Affairs in Brussels and mentioned, according to an announcement issued by the justice ministry on Friday, that "every proposal on combatting terrorism must necessarily aim at securing the balancing of two rights."The minister said that the first right "concerns the safeguarding of public interest, meaning of law and order and, consequently, the protection of society in its entirety from terrorist acts and the second aims at respect for the constitutionally consolidated rights of citizens' freedom of expression, freedom of the press and of the mass media and of assembling and joining partnerships." In addition, the justice minister pointed out that "any effort at legislative level to confront terrorism will be ineffectual if the justice ministers forget the social role of justice and this is the protection of society and of every person separately." Hatzigakis further stressed that "in examining the causes, we understand the circumstances that incite terrorist criminal behaviour and we are led to the path of prevention, which is a basic principle of Penal Law." Athens News Agency: News in English Directory - Previous Article - Next Article |
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