TODAY
Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis to meet with visiting Bulgarian Prime Minister Sergei Stanishev at 9 a.m. and Russian President Vladimir Putin at 10 a.m. At 11 a.m., they will sign the Burgas-Alexandroupolis pipeline agreement at the Presidential Palace. – Development Minister Dimitris Sioufas holds a press conference on the Burgas-Alexandroupolis pipeline agreement at 2 p.m. at the Divani Caravel Hotel. – Foreign Minister Dora Bakoyannis to meet with Qatar Minister of Foreign Affairs Sheikh Hamad Bin Jassim Bin Jabr Al-Thani at 1 p.m. – Transport Minister Michalis Liapis visits Patras. – Synaspismos Left Coalition President Alekos Alavanos to meet with the police officers’ union POASY at noon at party’s offices in Parliament. – University teachers and students hold a protest rally at noon in front of Athens University, protesting university reforms. – State High School Teachers’ Federation (OLME) stages a three-hour work stoppage from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. to participate in the protest rally. – Health Minister Dimitris Avramopoulos to meet with the director of the World Health Organization’s European Regional Bureau, Mark Danzone, at 10.30 a.m. at the ministry. – The Development Ministry hosts a conference on «Presentation of Public Enterprises’ Obligations Charter toward Consumers,» in cooperation with the General Secretariat for Consumer Affairs, at 1 p.m. at Syntagma metro station. Development Minister Dimitris Sioufas will speak. Tel. 210.382.9640 or log on to www.efpolis.gr. – The Holy Synod of the Church of Greece convenes in Athens.
