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| Volume 6 Number 13 - Tuesday, March 30th, 2004 |
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FIDEL CASTRO PLANS TO VISIT MOUNT ATHOS Thessaloniki, 16 March 2004 - Cuban President Fidel Castro's close associate Eusebio Leal will be in Thessaloniki in May to prepare the Cuban leader's visit to the monastic community of Mount Athos in Chalkidiki, northern Greece. President Castro has also accepted the invitation by Thessaloniki Mayor Vasilis Papageorgopoulos to visit the city given that fact that Thessaloniki and Havana will become twinned cities very soon. According to Thessaloniki newspaper Angelioforos, the Cuban government confirmed President Castro's intention to "prayerfully visit" Thessaloniki and Mount Athos after the visit to Cuba by the Ecumenical Patriarch last January on the occasion of the inauguration of the Saint Nikolaos church in Havana. The date of the visit has not been set yet but according to the newspaper report, the leader of Cuba expressed his wish to visit Greece in a meeting he had with Metropolitan Athenagoras of Panama and Central America.
Fidel Castro's
associate Eusebio Leal, ranking third in the
hierarchy of the Cuban government, will visit
Mount Athos in May to settle the details of
Castro's pilgrimage to the Holy Mountain. |
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