The National Statistics Service announced this year tourism figures in Greece showing no rise compared to the previous year. According to the Tourism Development Minister Aris Spiliotopoulos this is a positive fact meaning that the Greek tourism has not been influenced by the global economic crisis.

At 9 o’clock this morning the leader of the Greek Cypriots Dimitris Christofias And the Turkish Cypriot leader Mehmed Ali Talat are meeting in the residence of the UN representative in Cyprus at the buffer zone between the two parts of the divided Nikosia, patrolled by the UN forces