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The Syrian Arab Airlines establishment has resumed its flights to the Libyan city of Benghazi following a six-year of suspension. On Thursday a Syrian Boeing plane arrived at Benghazi airport carrying a delegation from the Syrian Arab Airlines establishment, several Syrian reporters and representatives of the ministry of tourism, to mark the inauguration of the Damascus- Benghazi air link. Go

Egypt addressed an invitation to Tunisian President Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali to attend the meetings of the European - African summit scheduled for April 3 - 4. Go

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak received yesterday a report from Osama El-Baz, the political advisor to the President, concerning his last visit to Israel and his meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak. Baz stated that Barak affirmed to him the continuation of the peace process despite all obstacles in the area currently, expressing his appreciation for the Egyptian role and efforts to keep the power of pushing forward the peace process. Go

Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah bin Andul Aziz on Thursday ended a two day official visit to Syria and was seen off at Damascus airport by Syrian President Hafez al-Assad and other high-ranking Syrian officials.A cable from the Saudi crown prince to al-Assad while leaving Damascus expressed happiness at having exchanged with President al-Assad views on Arab issues, hoping that all Arab efforts will succeed to serve the interests of the Arab and Islamic states. Go

An Italian parliamentary delegation will arrive in Damascus today, chaired by the chairman of the foreign relations committee at the Italian parliament, in a visit to Syrian which will last for three days. Go

Cairo will host on coming March 26 and 27 an economic conference named "Horizons of integration development and chances of foreign investment in Egypt" under the auspices of the international investor company (located in Kuwait). Adman Abd El-Aziz El-Bahr, the elected member of the company, said that this conference will be held in cooperation with many Egyptian and Arab governmental and non-governmental bodies with the participation of more than 150 Arab and foreign experts to evaluate the Egyptian experiment and discuss the problems confronting increasing the volume of investments during the coming period. Go

The government council meeting Thursday called for an emergency meeting of the inter-department road-safety commission to face up alarming increase of accidents. Go

It was decided to export 240,000 tons of Egyptian potatoes to Arab and European markets during this year in comparison to 230,000 tons in the last season. Go

The Japanese government is studying lifting the embargo imposed on Egyptian citrus in October. Egyptian economic sources said there are intensive communications between the two countries to sign agreements that state the commitment of the Egyptian producers and exporters to procedures and conditions for exporting agricultural crops to Japan to open the Japanese and Asian markets to the Egyptian citrus products, especially oranges. The sources expressed his hope of increasing exports of Egyptian orange crops to the Japanese market, which includes 140 million persons. Go

A mission affiliated to the Egyptian Information Ministry marketed more than 500 hours of drama productions in Morocco and Algeria after a three-day visit to Rabat and Algeria. Go

The activity of the first Egyptian tourism stock market, known as fair of tourism and travel to the Mediterranean Sea, which was held for three days at Cairo International Convention Center with the participation of 27 countries included 1,400 tourism experts representing 78 countries attended to learn about the features of the Egyptian market during the coming years. Go

Moroccan Human Rights Minister Mohammed Aujjar will be visiting London this March 6-8 to brief the House of Commons on Morocco's human rights experience. Aujjar will also meet the British Foreign Office secretary, Peter Hain, and deliver a lecture at the university of London on "democratic transition and human rights in Morocco." Go

FIFA Chief, Joseph Blatter and his CAF peer, Issa Hayatou, are expected in Morocco on March 24-25 to confer with Moroccan officials on the kingdom's bid to host the 2006 World Cup. Morocco is campaigning against South Africa, Brazil, England and Germany to host the World Cup. Go

Experts from several countries, including Morocco, debated in Ottawa on Feb. 28 through March 1 legal aspects and international competence in electronic trade. Go

The Egyptian Ministry of Culture agreed on establishing a new museum for the golden mummies in El-Wadi El-Gedid area, 300 kilometers south of Cairo for the Pharonic artifacts that were discovered in the area that belong to four Egyptian ages including the Coptic, Greek and Roman. Go

The United States Agriculture Department decided to grant 73,000 metric tons of wheat to Lebanon to be administered through Mercy Corps International, Lebanon NNA reported. Go

The Oujda court of appeal on Wednesday sentenced two murderers to capital punishment after they were found guilty of killing a child. J. Mimoun, 41, and his cousin J. Rabah, 36, were declared guilty of kidnapping, sequestering and killing a young boy, Hamza, last January. Go

Taxes provides more than 68% of the state receipts with a total of $ 4.73 billion (47.3 billion DH), say statistics of the territory development administration. Casablanca, Morocco's economic capital, supplies 2.1 billion DH ($ 21 mln) in taxes. Go

Moroccan referee, Boubker Benbedda, will officiate the Judo contests of the 2000 Olympic games of Sydney. Benbedda, 48, already reffed international events, including the latest World championships of Birmingham, England. Go

US ambassador to Israel Martin Indyk stated yesterday that the US believes the Middle East peace process can be fully successful, Haaretz reported, quoting Indyk as saying that Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak was "very accurate in his remarks" that his predecessors had agreed to a full withdrawal from the Golan Heights in exchange for peace with Syria. Go