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Luxor is to host on next Wednesday the conference of the Italian tourism companies union 'Fia Fit' which lasts for 5 days with the participation of more than 750 of travel agents and the Italian trip organizers as well as public relations professionals according to sources in the Egyptian tourism ministry. Egypt's Minister of Tourism Mamdouh El-Beltagi told ArabicNews.com that "there are Egyptian artistic and cultural evenings that will be held on the margin of these meetings in addition to organizing tourism trips for the participants in the conference to the areas of Taba, Nowaiba, Saint Cathrene and Aswan to visit the archeological and tourism spots in these Egyptian cities." Go

Egypt ambassador in Morocco Ambassador Ahmed Amin Fath Allah said that the Moroccan - Egyptian relations are distinguished in all fields and the summit that will be held between the Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and King Mohammed 6th of Morocco on the 22nd of the current month in Cairo - will contribute in vitalizing joint bilateral relations and will discuss many important issues related to regional and international political challenges, saying that there are a lot of bilateral subjects like developing trade process between the 2 states and it is expected that the summit will witness resolutions for vitalizing the trade between the 2 states. Go

Members of the Saudi delegation to the joint Saudi- Yemeni committee arrived in Aden on Tuesday to renew border marks. The committee is chaired by the director of the military department Lt. Gen. Murabba, Bin Hassan al-Shahrani to take part in the meetings of the 19th session of the committee which will be held in Aden. Al-Shahrani expressed his optimism over the success of works of the committee in line with the ambitions of the leadership of the two states. Go

The Lebanese daily al-Safir published on Thursday quoted well-informed sources as saying that the Iranian President Muhammad Khatami is intending to visit Lebanon shortly in order to hold talks with the Lebanese President on latest developments in the region. Go

Meetings of representatives from the 46 British companies with governmental officials and non-governmental Egyptian business organizations concluded today in Cairo discussions on increasing the volume of joint British investment in Egypt through specific projects such as developing Egyptian maritime companies, Toshka project, lands reclamation, agricultural products, transfer of technology, environmental projects and developing small and medium size business projects. Go

Saudi sources expected receiving three million tourists per year especially when Saudi embassies across the world start to provide tourist visas to Saudi Arabia, saying that the hotel capacity is currently at 177,000 rooms and is expected to double in the coming 3 years, adding that the decision of granting the tourism visas will increase the occupation percentage in the Saudi hotels from 30% to between 50% - 60% without adding the percentage of the Moslem pilgrims. Go

A fair for the Emirates industries is currently being held in Algeria. The conference last till coming Sunday with the participation of 18 Emirate companies that represent the different modern Emirate industrial sectors in the field of textile, chemical, electronics, and Internet services as well as the participation of more than 65 Algerian companies in addition to some foreign companies working in the free zones of commercial exchange in Emirates. Go

100 companies from seven Arab and European countries are participating in the international Mediterranean market for tourism which is concluding its works today in the Tunisian capital in addition to the participation of 300-400 representatives from international travel agencies. Go

Yemen received a lot of confirmations to attend celebrating the 10th anniversary for the Yemeni unity that will begin on 22nd of current May as Egypt will contribute with a formal delegation in the chairmanship of head of Shura council Mostafa Kamal Helmi as a deputy for the Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak. Also, Arab leaders such as Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah Bin Abd El-Aziz, the Algerian president, Emir of Qatar, the Sudanese president in addition to prime ministers of countries of Latin America, of European and Asian countries will participate. Go

The Italian company Colashim won a transaction for purchasing the governmental Tunisian cement company of 50 million Tunisian dinars (dollar = 1.2 dinar). Go

The Turkish daily al-Sabah said on Thursday that 30 men from the "Kurdistani workers party" were so far killed in the military operation, which is held by some 5,000 Turkish soldiers in North Iraq. The paper added that F-16 jets and Copra and Super Copra helicopters are taking part in this military operation which is being held in a depth ranging between 5 to 10 kilometers inside north Iraq. Go

A statement issued by Amman stock market said the volume of the shares owned by the foreigners since the beginning of the this year till the end of the April reached 15 million Jordanian dinars representing 12.2% of the total dealing in the stock market during this period, referring that the Arab contribution in the stock market reached 16,5% in return of 9,6% for the non Arabs while the banking sector ranked first then the insurance sector, the services sector and finally the industry sector. Go

Heavy fighting along the border between Ethiopia and Eritrea started today after the failure of a UN effort failed to resolve the differences between the two countries. Eritrea said in a statement today that "The Ethiopian regime has launched an offensive on the right and left flanks of the Mereb-Setit front today, 12 May 2000. The attack began shortly after midnight." Go