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Syria and media pluralism
The Jordanian weekly al-Hilal said in its today's issue that the Syrian leadership has formed a committee chaired by the deputy prime minister Muhammad Naji al Otari to study amendment of the of the printing and press law in Syria which was drawn in 1949 and amended in 1952 and was suspended to be active after the launching of the march 8 revolution in 1963.
Syria, Politics, 12/5/2000
Morocco's premier meets German president, German chancellor
Moroccan prime minister, Abderrahmane Youssoufi, who started on Sunday a three-day official visit to Germany at the invitation of chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, met on Monday German president Johannes Rau.
Morocco-Germany, Politics, 12/5/2000
Moroccan weeklies banning triggers responses
The political bureau of the Party for Progress and Socialism (PPS/ in the governmental coalition) denounced the "insane orientation of some press" and deplored the ban.
Morocco, Politics, 12/5/2000
Director of two banned weeklies to sue government
Director of Le Journal and Assahifa, Boubker Jamai is planning to sue the Moroccan government following a decision made Saturday to ban the publishing and circulation of the two weeklies.
Morocco, Politics, 12/5/2000
Palestinian Intifada continues, one Palestinian killed
Clashes continued on Monday between the Palestinians and the Israeli occupation forces. The Palestinian Awad al-Salmi ( 28 year old) was killed while trying to implant a bomb on the road to Natsareim settlement in Gaza strip.
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 12/5/2000
Syrian - Lebanese summit expected very soon
The Lebanese daily al-Anwar said in its today's issue quoting well-informed political sources expecting that the meetings President Bashar al-Assad hold in Damascus with Lebanese Christian and Islamic figures will be crowned by a summit meeting with the Lebanese President Emi Lahoud.
Lebanon-Syria, Politics, 12/5/2000
Jordan ratifies naval agreement with Syria
Jordan has ratified the sea navigation agreement with Syria. This was approved in a royal decree which also stressed the deep fraternal and trade relations between Jordan and Syria and the desire to deepen cooperation relations and trade and economic relations as well as joint cooperation in the naval area.
Jordan-Syria, Politics, 12/5/2000
Mubarak discusses preparations for new parliamentary session
Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak reviewed during a meeting on Monday the rules protecting the state lands according to a cadastral drawn by the armed forces, the ministries of tourism and housing and localities.
Egypt, Economics, 12/5/2000
Sudan forms a fact finding commission
The Sudanese foreign ministry has formed a fact finding commission to investigate over what was recently stated that the US has evacuated into the US a great number of Sudanese children, who were kidnapped by the rebel movement led by John Garang.
Sudan-USA, Politics, 12/5/2000
On Jordanian detainees
The Jordanian charge de affairs in Damascus said in an exclusive statement to the Jordanian daily al-Dostour issued on Monday that he had submitted a request to the Syrian authorities to get lists of names of prisoners who were recently released according to the Presidential Amnesty.
Jordan-Syria, Politics, 12/5/2000
Algerian - Moroccan tourism, handicraft cooperation probed
Algerian minister of tourism and handicraft Lakhdar Dorbani received in Algiers Sunday Moroccan ambassador to Algeria Mohamed Said Benrayane to look into bilateral cooperation in the fields of tourism and handicraft, official sources announced.
Algeria-Morocco, Economics, 12/5/2000
Morocco, Germany sign agreement for construction of hotel in southwestern Morocco
Morocco and Germany signed here on Tuesday an agreement for the construction of a big hotel in the Atlantic city of Agadir for an investment worth $ 25.4 million.
Morocco-Germany, Economics, 12/5/2000
Qatar's foreign minister visits China
Qatar's foreign minister Sheikh Hamad Bin Jasem Bin Jaber al-Thani will pay a visit to China carrying a message from the ruler of Qatar Sheikh Hamad Bin Khaleifa Al-Thani to the Chinese President.
Qatar-China, Politics, 12/5/2000
Somali national reconciliation process continues
A great rapprochement has been taken place between the Somali government the opposition leader Hussein Haj Boud, who was among the participants in the preparations for Arta conference in Djibouti and withdrew from this conference in its last days. He also announced his opposition to the results of the reconciliation conference.
Somalia, Politics, 12/5/2000
Moroccan opposition party calls prime minister to make clarifications about Fkih Basri's letter
Le Journal weekly published two weeks ago a dossier on the circumstances of the coup d'état of 1972, led by General Oufkir, and a letter reportedly by Fkih Basri, a leftist leader, and sent in the seventies to the late first secretary of the USFP, Abderrahim Bouabib, and Abderrahmane Youssoufi, current USFP first secretary, showing they were involved in the coup attempt.
Morocco, Politics, 12/5/2000
The press in Morocco has never been so free, prime minister
Moroccan Premier Abderrahmane Youssoufi said here Monday "Press in Morocco has never been as free as it is today."
Morocco, Politics, 12/5/2000
Some US $ 26 million for the victims of the Intifada
The Saudi government has offered a financial aid of US $ 26 million to the families of the victims of the Palestinian Intifada in the occupied Palestinian territories.
Saudi Arabia-Palestine, Politics, 12/5/2000
Moroccan treasury issues short, medium and long term bonds
The Moroccan Treasury issues Tuesday 1 year, two years and 15 year bonds, says a release of the department of economy, finance, privatization and tourism.
Morocco, Economics, 12/5/2000
Fund cites dramatic progress against trachoma in Morocco and Tanzania
An international program to eliminate trachoma said Monday it has made major progress against the blinding disease in two African pilot projects and will expand to target 30 million more people.
Morocco, Health, 12/5/2000
Eritrea, Ethiopia to sign peace treaty
The spokesman for the Eritrean Presidency said on Monday that Eritrea and Asmara will sign a peace treaty in Algeria on December 12 and therefore to end their border disputes which lasted for two years and claimed the lives of tens of thousands of people.
Eritrea-Ethiopia, Politics, 12/5/2000
New Egyptian archaeological discoveries
Czech and Egyptian archaeologists who are working on a Pharos cemetery at the Egyptian district of Abu Saber dated back to 4000 years old have unearthed historical monuments of very valuable scientific importance.
Egypt, History, 12/5/2000
Killing of moroccan man sparks controversy among Spanish political milieus
All Spanish political parties represented in the parliament, trade unions and non governmental organization have expressed indignation over the case of a young Moroccan shot dead Sunday early in the morning by a Spanish security agent in a beach in Tarifa (southern Spain).
Morocco-Spain, Local, 12/5/2000
OCP interested by hydrocarbon finds in Morocco, general-manager says
"L'Office Cherifien des Phosphates" (OCP) is interested in many ways by hydrocarbon finds in Morocco because sulfur and ammonia needed for phosphate processing are extracted from gas, general-manager Mohamed Berrada said.
Morocco, Economics, 12/5/2000
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Dubai's crown prince Lt. Gen. Muhammad Bin Rashed al-Maktoum, who is also the defense minister in the United Arab Emirates said that the al-Aqsa uprising and its continuity are the way to settle the Arab- Israeli conflict.
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The Syrian foreign minister Farouk al-Shara on Monday received Palestine's archbishop in Exile Elarion Cappucci. Talks dealt with developments of bloody events in the occupied Arab territories as a result of the military acts conducted by Israel against the unarmed Palestinians.
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Ambassadors and representatives of Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt and Palestine hold today an urgent meeting at the headquarters of the Arab league AL in Cairo with the aim of crystallizing a clear Arab stand towards the Israeli military escalation against the Palestinian people.
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The ruler of Qatar Sheikh Hamad Bin Khaleifa al-Thani on Sunday evening in Doha met with the Chairman of the Palestinian Authority Yasser Arafat.
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A Jordanian commercial air company said on Sunday it has started cutting price of travel tickets to Baghdad by 30 percent, reports Kuwaiti news agency KUNA. In the weekend, Jordan's national airlines, Royal Jordanian (RJ), concluded a round trip, with 19 passengers on board, to Baghdad on a humanitarian commercial flight.
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Well- informed sources concerned with oil industry said on Monday that Iraq has not resumed the exports of crude oil from the Turkish port of Jeihan on the Mediterranean or al-Baker port on the Arab Gulf. News reports quoted these sources as saying that Iraq pumps once again oil through pipelines to the Turkish port of Jeihan, adding but there is no sign that Baghdad resumed its oil exports.
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The European Union (EU) delivered Monday the health department a batch of 50 ambulances as part of the project "Support to maternal and neo-natal health in Morocco." Minister Khyari said the vehicles will boost the country's ambulance fleet and help meet some of the needs of rural areas in obstetrical and neo-natal emergency transportation.
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The two Algerian dailies al- Khabar and Le Matain issued on Monday said that armed Algerian groups on Saturday evening killed 10 persons in the two areas of al-Batina ( to the East of the capital) and al-Medya ( to its South).
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Customs and police agents in the northern port of Tangiers arrested on Friday a Spanish trucker in possession of 7.4 tons of hashish. The port authorities said the banned substance was hidden in boxes among other boxes of red pepper.
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