STOP NATO: �NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --------------------------- ListBot Sponsor -------------------------- Get a low APR NextCard Visa in 30 seconds! 1. Fill in the brief application 2. Receive approval decision within 30 seconds 3. Get rates as low as 2.99% Intro or 9.99% Ongoing APR and no annual fee! Apply NOW! http://www.bcentral.com/listbot/NextCard ---------------------------------------------------------------------- on 01/06/03 13:50, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > [04] Gov't spokesman downplays statements by UCK for so called > Tsamouria > > Athens, 01/06/2001 (ANA) > > Greece follows closely all statements and activities of different > people, regarding its security, but such activities and statements > should not be overestimated, government spokesman Dimitris Reppas said > on Thursday, regarding the sudden emergence of a self-styled terrorist > group of Albanians raising claims against the country. > > The issue was on the agenda of Thursday's cabinet meeting, which > focused on Greece's EU presidency scheduled for the first half of 2003, > and conditions in the region. Reppas noted that the presence of > International Organizations in the neighboring Former Yugoslav Republic > of Macedonia (FYROM) was satisfactory, as far as the results it has > succeeded in producing, adding, however, that "we should be careful, we > should follow the development of conditions in the neighboring > country". > > "This so called UCK has been characterized by everyone as a group with > terrorist activities. The Albanian government itself has condemned the > actions of its members," Reppas said. > > "We are a country which should confront in a sober way everything. And > one confronts issues in a sober way when one confronts them in their > correct dimensions," Reppas noted. > [13] FYROM's UCK leader denies reports on UCK > > SKOPJE, 02/06/2001 (ANA) > > A self-styled representative of Albanian armed groups active in the > Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) on Friday denied press > reports that he had announced the establishment of an organization > called "Tsamouria Liberation Army", in northwestern Greece. > > In an interview to the BBC, UCK self-styled representative Ali Ahmeti > said that all information regarding action against Greece was false and > was aimed at damaging the relations of UCK with Greece. > > On Wednesday, press reports said that the self-styled representative > introduced an Albanian organization he called "Tsamouria Liberation > Army", announcing its establishment and activation in northwestern > Greece. > > The man who identified himself as "Ahmeti", while speaking on a radio > broadcast aired in Australia, said that he was representing the > so-called "Liberation Army" active in the Former Yugoslav Republic of > Macedonia (FYROM). > > "I never made such statements," Ahmeti told the BBC, adding "nor did I > ever think to table such issues. I believe, however, that it is a > deliberate action of certain circles, aimed at establishing obstacles > to the democratic process in FYROM and the Balkans," Ahmeti said. > > "We want to live peacefully and with relations of good neighborliness > with all our neighbors, the Greeks, the Bulgarians. Thus, there is not > truth in the information reported by the media," he stressed. ______________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
