[ALBSA-Info] On Albanian Students in Greece

[Agron Alibali]

Macedonian Press Agency

[01] "THOSE WHO PARTICIPATE IN OUR EDUCATION ARE GREEKS"Athens, 30 October 2001 (12:01 UTC+2) 

Those who participate in our education are Greeks. This was the phrase with which government spokesperson answered the reporters, after the problems arising from the question on whether certain children from Albania, excelling in school, should be allowed to bear the Greek flag in the school parades on national holidays, an honor typically bestowed to the student with the highest grade in the school. 
Mr. Protopapas mentioned that the government considers the issue solved and referred to the relative legislature and circular of the Ministry of Education. He also added that if these children feel proud to bear the Greek flag, he could not understand who it was that would stop them and why. 
The Minister of Press mentioned that many eminent philhellenes who helped Greece's struggles for independence, served philosophy, thought and our culture, have deservingly held up the Greek flag in the past. They thought like Greeks, acted like Greeks, spoke Greek and were participants in Greek education, he said characteristically, and added: When a child is an excellent student of a Greek school and it feels that it is an honor for him to bear the Greek flag, we should be the last to place obstacles in front of it. 
The government spokesperson surmised by saying that we cannot and must not in any case become a society with gray areas and characteristically pointed out: You cannot accept someone to work for your business for 8 years, and then not let his child function in a school. 



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