After the formalities of swearing in, the cabinet is to go into session this weekend, before the start of the country's Orthodox Easter celebrations.

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Its senior Orthodox prelate, Archbishop Anastasios, a scholarly figure with a deep knowledge of Islam, has been raising money from western churches to help the Kosovo refugees, and will use this weekend's Orthodox Christian Easter celebrations to pray for all victims of ethnic hatred.

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