This Week
Monday Athens traffic restrictions are back in force. Only private cars whose license plates end in an even number are allowed in the center today between 7 a.m. and 8 p.m. – UN Secretary General Kofi Annan’s Special Envoy to Cyprus, Alvaro de Soto, is to meet with Cyprus President Glafcos Clerides and Turkish-Cypriot leader Rauf Denktash separately in Nicosia for an exchange of views. – Foreign Minister George Papandreou, Environment Minister Vasso Papandreou and UN Environment Program / Mediterranean Action Plan (UNEP/MAP) Director Lucien Chabason hold a news conference in light of the Earth Summit in Johannesburg. At 12 p.m., at the Foreign Ministry’s Yiannos Kranidiotis Auditorium, 1 Academias St. – Foreign Minister Papandreou to meet with Archbishop Demetrios of North America at the Foreign Ministry in Athens at 4.30 p.m. – Development Minister Akis Tsochadzopoulos pays official visit to Cyprus. To Tuesday. Tuesday Sixth round of direct talks between Clerides and Denktash begins. The two are to also meet with UN Secretary General Kofi Annan in Paris on September 6. – UNHCR, General Secretariat for Equality and the Theatriki Diadromi theatrical group are holding a news conference at the ESIEA building (20 Academias) at 12 p.m, in connection with the production of Aristophanes’ Lysistrata. The play will be presented at the Lycabettus Theater on Wednesday in order to collect money for Afghan women and children refugees. Tel. 010.6726.462-3. Friday Foreign Minister George Papandreou attends informal meeting of EU foreign ministers in Elsinore, Denmark. To Saturday. – British mediator Lord Hannay due to arrive on Cyprus. Sunday Foreign Minister Papandreou flies to Johannesburg for the UN’s Earth Summit. Environment Minister Papandreou will also attend. To September 5.
