Skopje hopes to reverse a 2008 decision that denied the former Yugoslav republic membership of the transatlantic alliance when NATO countries meet in Chicago next month, President Gjorge Ivanov said this weekend. In an interview with Sunday’s Kathimerini the president of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) said that his country’s bid must be [...]
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GREEK Prime Minister Loucas Papademos yesterday said partition was not an option for Cyprus and urged Turkey to undertake “decisive initiatives” towards the Turkish Cypriot side, if it really has the political will to work for a settlement in Cyprus. Addressing the House plenum, Papademos said that the solution must ensure the evolution of the [...]
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The Members of the Bulgarian Parliament ratified Friday the agreement between the Defense Ministries of Bulgaria and Israel for partnership in military trainings. “The agreement is needed in order to strictly regulate the joint military trainings on the territory of the respective country,” Defense Minister, Anyu Angelov, says, stressing this collaboration would not bring any [...]
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Forward by H. A. Samaras The Greek island of Crete, located in the South-Eastern Mediterranean, about, 300 km north of the African continent, 500 km from the newly discovered gas fields of Cyprus and 800 km from the gas fields of Israel, west of the Middle East and Asian continent, and 600 km east of [...]
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Greece is participating for the second time in a large-scale aeronautical military exercise called «Noble Dina 2012» organized by Israel and the U.S. The exercise is already underway in the area of the eastern Mediterranean and is expected to be concluded on April 5. Part of the exercise is conducted in the region south of [...]
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The very first American nuclear powered aircraft carrier “Enterprise” anchored off shore of Palaio Faliro, south of Athens, on Wednesday morning, 49 years after its last visit to the capital. The Big “E”, the longest carrier in the world and the first nuclear carrier in the US fleet, was accompanied by the cruiser USS Vicksburg [...]
Continue reading …Leader of Greek Minority Party in Albania Vangelis Doules: “There is No Tsamouria”
March 31, 2012 3 Comments
Vangelis Doules, President of the Human Rights Union and leader of the “OMONIA” Greek Minority Party, gave an interview with a big Albanian TV station (“5 questions with Babaramo” on News24) that became the center of media attention due to his strong political opinions. Doules referred to the bilateral relations between Albania and Greece and [...]
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Reports that Ankara wants to allow thousands of Greek-Cypriot refugees to return to Famagusta, in Turkish-occupied northern Cyprus, have angered Athens The increasingly aggressive tactics of Ankara — in the Aegean but also vis-a-vis Cyprus, which is to assume the rotating presidency of the European Union on July 1 — are worrying Greek government officials, [...]
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A prototype of T-129 Atak helicopters co-developed by Turkey and Italian AgustaWestland is seen during a test flight. First Atak is planned to be delivered by 2013. Turkey’s Undersecretariat for the Defense Industry has disclosed a new five-year strategic plan, which finalizes completion dates for key projects including Turkish-made tanks, aircraft, satellites, destroyers, and helicopters, [...]
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Greece will build as many as 30 detention centres to house illegal immigrants due to be deported, Michalis Chrysohoidis said, risking nationwide opposition from regional authorities and residents’ groups. The public order minister said the plan to build an average of three centres in each of Greece’s 13 administrative regions would be finalized before the [...]
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