Papoulias in Slovenia
LJUBLJANA (ANA-MPA/S. Tzimas) - President of the Republic Karolos Papoulias began a three-day official visit to Slovenia on Tuesday, accompanied by Alternate Foreign Minister Dimitris Droutsas and a business delegation.
In the afternoon Papoulias held talks with Slovenian President Danilo Turk and immediately afterwards the two leaders made statements, underlining the excellent, as they said, relations between the two countries, while adding that these relations can be improved even further.
Replying to a question by a local reporter on the issue of the name of the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (fYRoM), Papoulias said that Greece has made all of the concessions so far, and pointed out that "it is up to the leadership of fYRoM to take the (next) steps and abandon anachronisms and fixations."
Papoulias will meet his Slovene counterpart again on Wednesday, as well as with the country's political leadership, and will attend a business forum scheduled in the framework of the official visit.
Caption: Slovenia's President Dr. Danilo Turk (R) receives the President of Republic Karolos Papoulias (L) in Ljubljana on Tuesday 17 November 2009. ANA-MPA/VANGELIS VARDOULAKIS