In his speech at the ceremony awarding the Gold Medal of Honor of the City of Athens by Mayor of Athens Dora Bakoyanni, President Papadopoulos said that "the accession of Cyprus to the EU is already a historical success of joint efforts, but a viable and

functional solution to our major national issue, will be the greatest and most joyous pinnacle of our of our joint struggle".

The Prime Minister also gave his assurance that Greece's economic development will not decelerated by the 2004 Olympic Games, and he mentioned the way growth is expressed through investments in salaries, pensions, education, health and other works. He al so mentioned the drop in the GDP and made mention of an impressive fiscal reform in Greece over the past decade. During his speech the Prime Minister also mentioned the drop in inflation, pointing out that in 1991 it was 14% away from the EU average, whil e today it is 1.3%. In ending, he also referred to the issue of new jobs, stressing that unemployment dropped by 3%.

Of the stocks trading today, 212 had gains and 100 recorded losses, while the value of 71 stocks remained unchanged.

Prime Minister Kostas Simitis and governing Socialist Party of PASOK Central Committee Secretary Michalis Chrisochoidis.

The newspaper mentions, among others, that the conditions of political deadlock formed lately for the government upset the relations between Mr. Simitis and Mr. Chrisochoidis, which are being tested.

He made the statement when he was asked whether the government intends to change the law to avert a crisis in the relations between the Church of Greece and the Ecumenical Patriarchate.

Mr. Papadopoulos briefed the Archbishop on the latest developments in the Cyprus issue in view of Cyprus' official EU membership and thanked him for the active support of the Church of Greece to this national affair.

On his part, the Archbishop underlined that the Greek people and the Church of Greece are standing by the Cypriot people for a united island without partitions and for a peaceful future of development and prosperity for the two communities on the island of Cyprus.

He uses the diseases, from which the main characters in the film are suffering, in a metaphorical way, as well as the mud inside and outside the Turkish army camp in the Turkish occupied territories in northern Cyprus, to present the problem created in t he psyche of the people of the two communities and their desire to be cured namely, to find a solution to the problem.

Three are the main characters in the movie, soldier Ali, who has lost his voice, Temel, who wants to confess the war crimes he has committed and Halil, who is not interested in the war crimes.

Mr. Zaim stated in the press conference he gave that he tries to avoid autobiographic experiences given the fact that he is a Turkish Cypriot himself and has lived in the occupied territories.

He also expressed the wish that cinema will contribute to the de-escalation of the tension in the relations between Greece and Turkey and form a culture of peace.

The letter will be delivered to Archbishop Christodoulos within the next week by Metropolite Panteleimon of Tiroloi.

The contents of the letter will not be given to publicity and according to information, the Ecumenical Patriarchate insists in its position for total respect to the 1928 Act.

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