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ATHENS NEWS AGENCY (GREECE) KKE rally on Balkan developments 02/24/2008 Communist Party of Greece (KKE) leader Aleka Papariga was the central speaker at a demonstration and protest march to the European Union offices and the US Embassy in central Athens on Saturday regarding the developments in the Balkans. The demonstration and march were organised by the KKE and its youth organisation KNE. "Kosovo is one more result of imperialistic policies, with the singularity that it comprises an American protectorate with a European army," Papariga said, addressing demonstrators gathered outside Athens University in downtown Athens. "However, not only is imperialistic war tragic, but also imperialistic peace, which closes the moughts of the peoples," she said, and called on the Greek government to not recognise Kosovo independence and to not approve Greek participation "in the new occupation army in the region". She spoke of a commencement of mass mobilisations in the Balkans in order to avert "the climate of war being cultivated by the major powers, in the name of their anti-popular interests". Referring also to the FYROM name issue, Papariga accused the government of "lying about the exercise of a veto on the name issue" because "it is playing its own game with the US and the EU". The demonstrators marched afterwards to the EU offices on central Vassilissis Sophias Avenue, with the main slogan "Rejection of US and NATO", and then on to the US Embassy on the same street. Demonstrators also burned American flags as they gathered outside the Embassy, before dispersing. Caption: Communist Party of Greece (KKE) leader Aleka Papariga. (ANA-MPA).
