FYROM, KOSOVO AND THE REGION IN CENTER OF IMPORTANT MEETING OF BAKOGIANIS, MEIMARAKIS WITH KARAMANLIS AT GREAT MAXIMUS, 24 HOUR AFTER MEDIATOR NIMITS LEFT ATHENS

Photo: Mimarakis and Bakogianis

With the ministers of Defence and Foreign Relations Ef.Meimaraki Nt.Mpakogianni meets Saturday prime minister, less than a 24-hour period since the visit Nimits in Athens. The agenda of contacts and the Kosovo issue and balkans, but also the visit of Karamanlis in Moscow after Easter.


In a statement, Mr. Meimarakis said that there was a wider review of the issues of foreign and defense policy. Answering a question about the name “New Macedonia” on FYROM, Minister said that “we are not talking at the moment were named in the sense that you put it. We have the characteristics, and we expect negotiator's proposals”. In another question, if discussed Afghanistan and Kosovo g. Meimarakis replied positively and, finally, asked to comment on the intervention of the President of LAOS C. Karatzaferis in the House, about journalists - and the possibility of media control by the government, Meimarakis said.

shortly afterwards the Dora Bakoyanni said that the Prime Minister had discussed with the whole of foreign policy issues. In a similar question on “New Macedonia” the minister made it clear that not ushered in nomenclature. The important thing is that the negotiation continues, we are far from being reached on the name, he said.



On Saturday, speaking in a Panhellenic Conference of PASP, the Chairman of the Panhellenic Socialist Movement Georgeos Papandreus reiterated that Greece supports negotiations under the UN and that there is unanimity among the political forces in the so-called red line