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28th April, 2008

Greg Terrill
Assistant Secretary
WH Commissioner (Australia)
Heritage Division
Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts

Dear Mr Terrill,

28th April, 2008

To the Prime Minister of Greece, Mr Konstantinos Karamanlis
Maximos Mansion
19 Irodou Attikou St.
106-74
Athens Greece

Your Excellency,

The World Archaeological Congress would like to express its strong opposition to the
development proposed by the British company Minoan Group in the archaeologically rich,
arid, windswept, uninhabited north-east corner of Crete, called Cavo Sidero. This letter is
to draw your attention to the archaeological richness of this area, and to the threat posed to
this area by the proposed development.

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