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Moroccan FM in Algiers
Moroccan foreign affairs and cooperation minister, Mohamed Benaissa, arrived in Algiers Saturday to deliver a verbal message from King Mohammed VI to President Abdelaziz Bouteflika.
Algeria-Morocco, Politics, 4/14/2001
James Abu Rezk: Syria is in good hands with leadership of President Bashar al-Assad"
" President Bashar al-Assad is very intelligent man, and very open. And I think Syria is in good hands with President Bashar al-Assad," said former US Senator and founder of the Arab- Anti Discrimination Committee Mr James Abu Rezk in a statement to Arabic News.
Syria, Politics, 4/14/2001
A ministerial reshuffle expected in Bahrain
Press reports expected, quoting political circles in Bahrain, that a forthcoming ministerial reshuffle to be made by the beginning of next week to include five ministries of which three are basic.
Bahrain, Politics, 4/14/2001
King Abdullah calls for Marshal plan for the ME
The Jordanian King Abdullah II has called on the West to invest in the developing countries in the Middle east and to encourage peace via program derived from Marshal plan which permitted to building Europe following the Second World War.
Jordan-Regional, Politics, 4/14/2001
Lahoud: we refused partial solutions
The Lebanese President Emil Lahoud has asserted his country's commitment to just and comprehensive peace and rejection of partial solutions. During his meeting on Thursday with the delegation of the US Congressmen led by Nick Rahall, the Lebanese President held Israel responsible for the stalemate on the peace process.
Lebanon-USA, Politics, 4/14/2001
Morocco and Syria resolved to achieved Arab common market
Regarding the delays in setting the Arab market, he cited border problems which hinder the free movement of persons and goods, foreign pressures and a poor political involvement for some countries. He also hoped that Arab states will make up for the lost time through an approach that would enable the Arab nation to draw benefit from ongoing international mutations.
Syria-Morocco, Politics, 4/14/2001
Nayef confirms signing the security agreement with Iran
The Saudi minister of the Interior prince Nayef Bin Abdul Aziz has asserted that Saudi Arabia and Iran will sign a security agreement during his visit to Iran on Sunday, stressed the importance of the agreement and the visit which comes in the context of continued rapprochement between Tehran and al-Riyadh.
Saudi Arabia-Iran, Politics, 4/14/2001
Three messages from Mubarak to Saudi, Kuwaiti and UAE leaders
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak will send three messages to King Fahd Bin Abdul Aziz of Saudi Arabia, Sheikh Jaber Al Ahmed Al Sabah the Emir of Kuwait and Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan, the President of the United Arab Emirates, during his four-day Gulf tour starting tomorrow with a visit to Saudi Arabia.
Egypt-Gulf, Politics, 4/14/2001
Mauritanian president receives Moroccan minister
Mauritanian president, Mouaouyia Ould Sid Ahmed Taya, met in Nouakchott Thursday Moroccan minister of economy, finance, privatization and tourism, Fathallah Oualalou, who attended the official transfer of 51% of Mauritania's phone operator "Mauritel" to Morocco's phone operator "Maroc-Telecom."
Mauritania-Morocco, Economics, 4/14/2001
Arab- American institute calls for halting arms sales to Israel
The Arab- American Institute in Washington on Thursday called on the US to halt selling weapons to Israel, following the Israeli aggressive practices launched against the unarmed Palestinians in the occupied territories.
Regional-Israel, Politics, 4/14/2001
Tunisia: poverty rates decreased in the year 2000
Poverty rate decreased in Tunisia in the year 2000 to 4.2% after it was 6.2% in 1995. This is due to the developmental policies purused by the Tunisian government since the year 1987. A policy which gave special interest to social care and fair distribution of profits, as more than one million inhabitants benefited from loans given by the National Fund for solidarity known as Fund 26-26, which was established by the Tunisian President Zein al-Abidin Bin Ali in 1992.
Tunisia, Economics, 4/14/2001
Mubarak - Gaddafi talks cover Palestinian issue, African Union Institutions
The talks focussed on the Middle East peace process in the light of the Israeli aggression against the Palestinian people, the resolutions of recent Arab Summit in Amman, the executive steps of establishing the African Union's institutions, the joint ventures and the Egyptian-Libyan relations.
Egypt-Libya, Politics, 4/14/2001
GCC foreign ministers meet their European counterparts in Bahrain
The annual meeting of the foreign ministers of the Gulf Co-operation Council GCC and their counterparts in the European Union EU will be held in Bahrain on April 23.
Gulf-European Union, Politics, 4/14/2001
Al-Assad returned back home concluding visits to Morocco, Tunisia
" We are today in dire need for unity, manliness and faithfulness with a view to confronting the imminent danger represented by Israel and its racist and expansionist ambitions in the Arab homeland. This very danger still plants poisons in the body of the steadfast and heroic Palestinian people and targets all Arabs, who have according to the teachings of the Holy Koran. to confront this danger and repel it."
Tunisia-Syria, Politics, 4/14/2001
Moroccan phone operator hands in $ 48 mln check for 51% of Mauritania's Mauritel
Morocco and Mauritania signed here on Thursday the agreement under which 51% of Mauritania's telecom operator (Mauritel) goes to Morocco's phone operator (Maroc Telecom).
Morocco-Mauritania, Business, 4/14/2001
Kuwaiti parliament opens the file of trade cooperation with Jordan
Suddenly, the foreign relations committee at the Kuwaiti Nation's Council ( parliament) will today ( Saturday) open the file of a draft law issued 14 years ago calling for increasing trade, economic and technical cooperation between Kuwait and Jordan.
Kuwait-Jordan, Economics, 4/14/2001
Egypt renews denial of Jewish participation in building the Pyramids
The Egyptian minister of Culture Farouk Hosni has refuted, once again, on Thursday Israel's claims on the role played by the Jews in building al-Jiza pyramids and their contribution to building certain archaeological areas in al-Fantin island ( Jazirat al_fantin) in Aswan.
Egypt, History, 4/14/2001
Arab human rights organizations calls europe to take stance on Palestinian issue
A group of 22 Arab human rights organizations called the European Union to take a stance on the Palestinian issue, in tune with human rights principles.
Regional-European Union, Politics, 4/14/2001
Kuwait will not accept reconciliation with Iraq
The first deputy for the prime minister in Kuwait Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah who is also the foreign minister said that his country will not accept the reconciliation with Iraq not now or in the future.
Kuwait-Iraq, Politics, 4/14/2001
Israel destroys Rafah mosque, three Palestinians killed
After breaking on Wednesday into Khan Younis camp for the Palestinian refugees and in another escalation, the Israeli forces on Thursday bombarded using artillery and missiles the Palestinian Rafah city and the bombardment concentrated on Salah Eddine Gate and resulted in destroying great part of al-Nour Mosque and several buildings.
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 4/14/2001
Egypt, South Africa boost Arab-African cooperation
Moussa said that the meeting tackled all Arab and African issues of mutual interest as well as promoting bilateral relations in the light of preparations for the joint Egyptian-South African committee meetings, to be held in Cairo in July.
Egypt-South Africa, Politics, 4/14/2001
Mubarak and Putin to discuss developments of the peace process
Egyptian President Mubarak starts an important European tour on April 24. The tour will take him to Germany, Romania and Russia.
Egypt-Russia, Politics, 4/14/2001
Sharon speaks of an isolated Palestinian state of 42% of the Palestinian territories
the Israeli forces prevented the Palestinian Christians from entering the holy city to celebrate the " Great Friday" in Jerusalem and arrested tens of the Palestinians of 1948, after one Israeli soldier was wounded.
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 4/14/2001
World Health Organization and Iraq
The World Health Organization WHO on Thursday approved with Iraq on a plan for joint discovery of possible links between the depleted uranium and the diseases that spread among the Iraqi people following the Gulf war in 1991.
Iraq, Health, 4/14/2001
Libya intensifies campaigns for African unity
Libyan civil societies and scholars are now touring various African countries to promote the recently proclaimed African Union, the pan-African news agency PANA reports.
Libya-Regional, Politics, 4/14/2001
Khartoum accepts Islamic mediation with al-Turabi
The secretary general of the ruling national congress in Sudan professor Ibrahim Ahmad Omar has denied news on that there are any member in the Congress Party who opposes efforts made by the Islamic mediation delegation between the ruling party and the People's Congress party of ( Hassan al-Turabi).
Sudan, Politics, 4/14/2001
Egypt invests LE400 billion on infrastructure in 20 years
In a rally in Menia, Upper Egypt, on Friday, Ibrahim El-Demeiri said his ministry invited Arab and foreign investors to invest in a number of its huge projects under certain conditions aiming to protect the national economy.
Egypt, Economics, 4/14/2001
Mubarak discusses files of talks with Schroeder, Iliescu, and Putin
President Mubarak's political advisor Osama Al-Baz said the President's visit to Moscow will offer a good opportunity to stress importance of a Russian active role in the Middle East peace process, now that Russia is one of the two peace process sponsors.
Egypt, Politics, 4/14/2001
Free zones to turn into export areas
Chairman of the General Authority For Investment and Free Zones (GAFI) Mohammed A1 Ghamrawi said yesterday that turning free zones into areas where commodities for exporting purposes are manufactured has become an imperative demand especially that local industries have become up to the level of competitiveness in the foreign markets.
Egypt, Economics, 4/14/2001
Venezuelan MPs voice support to Morocco's cause
"We are with you and be assured of our full commitment to defend your cause," vice-chairman of the group told Sahrawi heads of tribes, elected officials, delegates of non-governmental organizations and persons who fled the sequestration camps and returned to Morocco.
morocco-Venezuela, Politics, 4/14/2001
Sudanese police has dispersed a mass
The Sudanese police has dispersed a mass held on the occasion of the " Easter" and arrested 40 persons from the attending masses.
Sudan, Local, 4/14/2001
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President Bashar al-Assad on Friday received a message from the Romanian President Ion Eliescu. The message was handed by the Romanian assistant foreign minister during his meeting on Friday with the foreign minister farouk al-Shara in Damascus.
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Well-informed sources in Amman said that the Jordanian King Abdullah II will visit Oman next Saturday and he will be accompanied by an official delegation including high ranking ministers and consultants. An Omani source said the visit falls in the course of bilateral relations linking the two countries. The source added the two leaders will discuss in Muscat several current issues of mutual concern including the cause of Palestine.
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Syrian foreign minister, Farouk Al-Shareh, insisted that peace is impossible in the middle east, unless Israel withdraws from all the Arab territories. The head of the Syrian diplomacy, who accompanied president Bachar Al Assad in his visit to Morocco this week, told Moroccan TV channel "2M" Israel is now in a dire strait after its defeat in south-Lebanon and Israelis will for ever remember the date of May 24, 2000 as a lesson that it cannot go on acting as it wills in the region.
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An israeli military spokesman said on Friday that a patrol from the Israeli army arrested an Egyptian citizen, who stressed he is a journalist, after he had crossed the Syrian- Israeli cease-fire line in the occupied Syrian Golan heights on Thursday.
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The White House announced on Friday that the US President George Bush will meet with the Lebanese prime minister Rafik al-Hariri in the White House on April 24.
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Speaker of the Belgian senate, Armand De Decker, who is currently on a work visit to Morocco, conferred Friday with Moroccan premier, Abderrahmane Youssoufi. Talks focused on means to upgrade Moroccan-Belgian cooperation, the situation of Moroccan expatriates settled in Belgium and relations between Morocco and the European Union.
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Pope John Paul II has expressed his regret that he will not be able to visit Lebanon during his al-Haj visit he will hold to Syria in May. In a message he had sent on Friday to the Lebanese President Emil Lahoud, the Pope added that the program of al-Haj visit was set beforehand " does not permit me to decide a new station in Lebanon."
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Morocco and China concluded Friday here an accord on the construction of three sports complexes in Marrakesh, Fez and Kenitra.
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Speaker of the Mauritanian parliament, Sheikh Ahmed Ould Baba, will start Sunday a 5-day official visit to Morocco meant to give a new impetus to relations between the two Maghreban states.
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Egyptian First Lady Suzanne Mubarak will launch a new national cultural project under the motto "Read For Your Child". The aim is to cultivate in children the habit of reading and seeking knowledge, particularly in the preschool stage. Mrs. Suzanne Mubarak, who has sponsored a successful "Reading For All Project" over the past years, will call on every father and mother to read for his/her child.
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Al-Azhar's Grand Imam Mohammed Sayed Tantawi said that President Mubarak has always aligned with National Unity calling for spreading peace, security and affection between Muslims and Christian who live in one homeland. He added that Muslims and Christians have been constantly in the habit of working together for the interest of Egypt.
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Political observes in Cairo have explained that the atmospheres in the Egyptian political establishments reflect a state of great concern due to the very hard conditions the region is passing with the accession of an anti- peace Israeli government chaired by Ariel Sharon and its use of all types of weapons against the Palestinians.
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The Sudanese foreign minister Mustafa Othman Ismael has announced that the IGAD's summit to discuss peace in Sudan will be held in this month. Ismael who was making press statements, did not state a certain date for this summit, but the executive secretary of IGAD's secretariat Atallah Hamad Bashir said that this summit will be held by the end of this month ( April) in Nairobi and will basically discuss means of halting the war in Southern Sudan. Hamad Bashir added that this meeting was taken in the joint meeting between IGAD's foreign ministers and IGAD's partners which was held in Rome in March.
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The Moroccan parliament opened Friday its spring session. Under Article 40 of the Moroccan Constitution, the House of Representatives' legislative years is divided into two sessions: a fall session, opened by the King on the first Friday of October, while the fall session starts on the second Friday of April.
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Morocco will pay host to three international parliamentary meetings in 2001 and 2002, speaker of the house of representatives (lower chamber of parliament), Abdelouahed Radi, announced on Friday.
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An international Andalusian music festival opened in Fez Thursday to pay tribute to the late Mohamed Tamsamani, a pioneer of this music inherited from the era of Muslim Spain.
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