[ALBSA-Info] MPA on CBS Report

[Agron Alibali]

Macedonian Press Agency
 [06] PROTOPAPAS: QUESTIONS ON THE
 CBS REPORT ON TERRORISM

Athens, 7 January 2002 (17:59 UTC+2) 
Questions are being raised by the Greek government
over the ulterior motive of a news report on
"terrorism in Greece" that was broadcast on the US
private television station CBS today,according to
statements made by Greek government spokesman Christos
Protopapas. 

    Mr. Protopapas stated that the television channel
in question did not respect even the basic
journalistic code of ethics saying characteristically
that even though it had taken a long interview with
Foreign Minister Giorgos Papandreou did not broadcast
it.
Mr. Protopapas stated that the report concluded by
launching a strong attack on parliament president
Apostolos Kaklamanis. 

 One day before the visit of Prime Minister Kostas
Simitis to the United States, the US television
station CBS presents Greece as a terrorist "paradise".
In the most important television program of the
station and the country itself, called "60 Minutes",
that was broadcast in the early morning hours of
Monday, it was
repeated that after 26 years of terrorist action and
over 100 terrorist attacks by "17 November" there have
been no arrests and no court trials of possible
suspects. 

   The report includes statements made by parliament
president Apostolos Kaklamanis on whom it was stressed
that he represents "the ultra-nationalist and
anti-American" wing of the governing party. Mr.
Kaklamanis characterized the allegations linking "17
November" with the Greek government as an insult for
him personally and the Greek parliament. 

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