Pasok leader George Papandreou met with representatives of Greek expatriates from Albania yesterday, telling them that the Greek state's self-evident obligation was to assure full restitution for Northern Epirots in Greece.

"The mass participation of expatriate Greeks in the European Parliament elections is a major wager that we are called until to win, if we want to highlight and utilise the dynamic developed by Hellenism in 21st Century Europe," said candidate Eurodeputy for the main opposition Pasok party, Costas Tatsis, at a large rally in view of the June 7 elections, held on Monday in Munich. 

Wearing their traditional costumes, which comprise part of their daily lives, and with songs and dances - even in the church - the Maasai of Kenya welcomed the Patriarch of Alexandria, Theodore II to their village some 30 kms from Nairobi.

For the past few days, various Greek islands have been promoted in the English-language Australian press.

Pupils from the 6th grade of the Arsakeio School in Tirana, Albania, and their accompanying teachers were received at the presidential mansion in Athens yesterday by the President of the Hellenic Republic, Karolos Papoulias.