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Athens Macedonian News Agency: News in English, 16-09-20

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From: The Athens News Agency at <http://www.ana.gr/>

CONTENTS

  • [01] FM Kotzias to hold series of meetings in NY on Tuesday
  • [02] Greece on the first line of refugee crisis, PM Tsipras says
  • [03] Meeting on refugee issue underway after the clashes at Moria
  • [04] Military helicopter crashes; pilots safe
  • [05] Forty eight migrants and refugees rescued off Zakynthos

  • [01] FM Kotzias to hold series of meetings in NY on Tuesday

    Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias will meet on Tuesday with his Bolivian counterpart David Choquehuanca Céspedes and the Iraqi Minister of Foreign Affairs Dr. Ibrahim al-Jaafari.

    Afterwards, Kotzias will meet with the Special Advisor to UN secretary general on Cyprus Espen Bart Eide as well as with the Foreign Minister of Kosovo E. Hoxhaj.

    Finally, he will attend a reception offered by the EU in the framework of the High-Level Week of the 71st Session of the UN General Assembly in NYC.

    [02] Greece on the first line of refugee crisis, PM Tsipras says

    "Greece is on the first line of the refugee crisis for the humane and effective management in accordance with international law," Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras posted on a special account he has opened on United Nations' social media on the occasion of the 71th General Assembly of the Organization at its headquarters in New York.

    [03] Meeting on refugee issue underway after the clashes at Moria

    A meeting on measures to be taken in order to address the situation in Mytilene is currently underway after Monday's clashes at Moria hotspot.

    "A vessel will be leased to temporarily host refugees, mostly families, at the port of Mytilene until the hotspot fully operates again. Moreover, additional police forces will be sent to Lesvos," the secretary general of Aegean and island policy Giannis Giannelis said to the Athens-Macedonian News Agency.

    Officials also discuss further solutions to improve the situation on Lesvos and other islands of the eastern Aegean that receive large flows of refugees and migrants that afterwards get trapped on the islands.

    New clashes between groups of refugees and migrants of different nationalities broke out on Monday evening inside the Moria hot spot in Mytilene.

    A group of migrants set fire to several parts of the camp offering the opportunity to a large number of migrants and refugees to flee. Authorities evacuated the area that hosts unaccompanied children and transferred them to a new facility.

    [04] Military helicopter crashes; pilots safe

    A Greek military helicopter Apache crashed into the sea region of Vrasna, Thessaloniki at 09:00 on Tuesday.

    The two pilots of the helicopter are safe.

    [05] Forty eight migrants and refugees rescued off Zakynthos

    Forty eight irregular migrants, 16 of them children, aboard a sailboat were located by the coast guard in the sea area between Kefallonia and Zakynthos on Monday, after transmitting a distress signal though Olympia radio.

    A freight vessel with Ukranian flag rescued the migrants (22 men, 10 women and 16 children) and is now transporting them to the port of Zakynthos, where they will stay temporarily.

    According to initial information, the sailboat was heading to southern Italy.


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