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King Mohammed stresses importance of audit institutions in consolidating rule of law
Morocco's King Mohammed VI has stressed the paramount importance of audit institutions, given the role they play in rationalizing public money spending, improving public affairs management and moralizing public service.
Morocco, Politics, 4/25/2001
Belgian foreign minister arrives in Damascus
Belgian foreign minister Louise Michael arrived in Damascus on Tuesday. At the airport he was welcomed by the deputy foreign minister Walid al-Muaallim, high ranking foreign ministry officials and the Belgian ambassador in Damascus.
Syria-Belgium, Politics, 4/25/2001
King Mohammed: We need inter-Arab cooperation far from demagogy
The king said "We will only induce ourselves and our peoples into error, if we continue to call for cooperation with others and for the opening of borders, while our states have not yet been able to open their own borders, have not yet consecrated economic cooperation mechanisms between their societies and have not yet overcome the eruption of crises that squander their energies"
Morocco-Regional, Politics, 4/25/2001
Morocco, Greece to enhance political consultations
The memorandum, initialed by visiting Greek foreign minister, Georges Papandreou, and his Moroccan peer, Mohamed Benaissa, provides for regular meetings between the two departments senior officials who will probe bilateral relations and assess implementation of existing accords.
Morocco-Greece, Politics, 4/25/2001
Woman and war: the Syrian part of an International campaign
Widowed, displaced, humiliated, raped, women are often forgotten when victims of wars are enumerated: one automatically thinks of soldiers as first row victims of armed conflicts.
Syria, Culture, 4/25/2001
Garang to evacuate Jews to Israel
The Sudanese daily al-Sharee al-Seyasi ( the political street) said on Tuesday that the rebel movement which is led by John Garang in Southern Sudan seeks by appointing the Jew David Basyouni, as a prime minister for his government which he had announced in Southern Sudan to prove that there is a small tribe at the Ethiopian- Sudanese borders belong to the Falasha Jews, with the intention to bargain it with Israel in order to win more funds and please the Israeli officials.
Sudan, Politics, 4/25/2001
Contacts to convene an urgent meeting for the Damascus boycott office
News reports in Egypt indicated on Tuesday " intensive contacts " underway to convene an urgent meeting very soon for the Arab boycott office of Israel in Damascus despite the American pressures to prevent the revival of the Arab Ð boycott as a "weapon" against Israel.
Regional-Israel, Economics, 4/25/2001
Trade relations between Israel and Jordan
The Jordanian minister of industry and trade Wasef Azar has explained that extending work in the trade agreement signed with Israel is a routine measure which is spontaneously renewed every year unless one of the two sides objects such an extension.
Jordan-Israel, Economics, 4/25/2001
Sit in observed in Damascus in support of Golan prisoners
The committee in charge of supporting Syrian prisoners jailed by the Israelis in the occupied Golan and Palestine on Tuesday staged a sit-in in Damascus in solidarity with the Golan prisoners in the Israeli jails.
Syria-Israel, Politics, 4/25/2001
Al-Shara discusses with Larsen the Israeli escalation
The Syrian foreign minister Farouk al-Shara on Tuesday evening received the UN special co-ordinator in the Middle East Terry Larsen.
Syria-Israel, Politics, 4/25/2001
Amnesty International chief lauds Morocco's human rights progress
The AI chief said he was happy to see the progress Morocco made in three years (since the last visit he paid to Morocco in 1998). Several dossiers were settled and several NGOs were created, he said.
Morocco, Culture, 4/25/2001
Confrontation continue between the Palestinians, the Israeli army
Similarly, the Israeli forces demolished houses in Wadi al-Salqa area to the south of Deir al-Balah including one house for Ibrahim Abu Amre and sealed a potable water well and leveled agricultural lands after uprooting its trees.
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 4/25/2001
On Mubarak's visit to Moscow
The Egyptian ambassador to Moscow Rida Ahmad Shehata has stressed that the visit of the Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to Moscow which will start on April 26 will give bilateral relations a new impetus and will avail boosting higher cooperation between the two countries.
Egypt-Russia, Politics, 4/25/2001
New department in Oman to promote investment
The new department is to identify investment activities in each wilayat, promote investment, organise gatherings and establish a database relevant to each wilayat
Oman, Economics, 4/25/2001
American archbishops for ending the war in Sudan
Catholic archbishops in the US have called on the US President George Bush to appoint a special envoy in Sudan so that the US will lead efforts to end the war in Sudan.
Sudan-USA, Politics, 4/25/2001
U.S. should warn Arab Americans on Israel travel
The Arab American Institute wrote to Secretary of State Colin Powell urging the "State Department [to]Éwarn Arab Americans of travel in Israel with an updated Consular Information Sheet (CIS),"
Regional-USA, Politics, 4/25/2001
Annan recommends two-month extension of MINURSO
UN Secretary-General, Kofi Annan, on Tuesday recommended the extension for two months of the mandate of the MINURSO (French acronym of the UN mission for the referendum in the Sahara).
Morocco, Politics, 4/25/2001
Morocco calls for more backing to developing countries to promote sustained development
The Moroccan official called for an effective implementation of the commitments of the Kyoto convention and protocol and for the transfer of financial resources, know-how and technologies part of north-south partnership.
Morocco-Regional, Politics, 4/25/2001
Poll reveals: optimism for information technology and cooperation in the Arab states
A majority (55%) also expressed optimism for the prospect of forming a regional economic market, while 38% were not positive. Nonetheless, the conference attendees gave low marks for current IT efforts in the Arab World and they rated the Arab countries as less developed in IT among a number of developing nations and regions of the world.
Regional, Economics, 4/25/2001
Israeli airliner suspends flights
The Israeli airliner al-Al has decided to halt its flights to ten international airports, following the great financial losses inflected on the company because of the decrease in the world tourism movement to Israel.
Israel-Palestine, Economics, 4/25/2001
Moroccan-Chinese agricultural cooperation probed
Talks focused on the protection and promotion of forest resources and the two sides agreed to trade experts and information on reforestation techniques and struggle against desert encroachment, to conduct joint research and to exchange plants that struggle against soil erosion.
Morocco-China, Agriculture, 4/25/2001
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Libyan President Muaammar al-Qaddafi has received a message from President of the republic of Benin relating to continued consultations between the two countries on African and international issues of mutual interests.
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The Saudi daily Okaz said on Tuesday that a special regional congress of the Baath party will be held after the visit of the Pope to Syria and this congress' agenda has only two articles: to set a plan to modernize the army and raise its preparedness and to make a full ministerial reshuffle.
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The Maronite patriarch Nasrullah Sfeir will pay a visit to the Vatican before the Pope John Paul II will head for Syria on May 4 to discuss the possibility of the participation of the "head of the Maronite Church" in welcoming the Pope in Damascus.
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Morocco on Friday decried Israel's systematic aggression in the Middle-East. "In these difficult moments during which the Palestinian struggle is undergoing the horrifying confrontation aimed at obliterating its Arab identity, we renew our denunciation of the policy of systematic aggression of the Israeli government," King Mohammed VI said in a message to a meeting in Fez on "Towards a Project of Arab Renaissance."
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The Muscat Penal Court sentenced a man to three years in prison and RO. 66,000 in fine for embezzlement in a case involving an incident of embezzlement and forgery at Omani Housing Bank, ONA reported.
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Iran and Tunisia on Monday evening signed seven documents for cooperation between the two countries in the areas of trade, transport, shipment, tourism, sports and the promotion of exports and judicial issues.
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The ruler of Kuwait Sheikh Jaber al-Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah and the Kuwaiti crown prince and prime minister Sheikh Saad Al-Abdullah al-Salem al-Sabah, in two separate meetings received the chief of staff of the British armed forces Admiral Michael Bweis and members of the accompanying delegation on the occasion of their visit to Kuwait.
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The London- based al-Hayat daily said on Tuesday that the Islamic resistance movement " Hamas" called in Tehran for opening all Arab fronts in the face of Israel, including the front of Egypt and Jordan, in addition to the Syrian and Lebanese fronts in order to help the Palestinian people and stand beside them.
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