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Al-Assad confers with Algerian, Iranian FM s
Discussions also dealt with "the importance of changing the Arab position from rhetoric exchange to effective inter- Arab solidarity in challenge of current onslaughts."
Syria-Algeria, Politics, 4/13/2002
Message from Mubarak to Arafat
"The Israeli government has violated all norms and values and President Arafat's confinement to a number of rooms is indicative of the Israelis' disregard of all laws," he added.
Egypt-Israel, Politics, 4/13/2002
Mohammed VI Arabic language academy to be set up
The government council, convened Thursday in Rabat under the chairmanship of Prime Minister, Abderrahmane Youssoufi, adopted a draft related to the creation of the Mohammed VI Arabic Language Academy.
Morocco, Culture, 4/13/2002
Moroccan ngos hand UN chiefs dossier on ordeal of persons sequestered in Tindouf
Activists of several Moroccan ngos handed on Friday to the UN Secretary General Kofi Annan and to the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Ms Mary Robinson, a dossier describing in detail the ordeal of the populations sequestered in the Polisario-controlled camps in Tindouf, south-western Algeria.
Morocco, Politics, 4/13/2002
European leader: Israel is a terrorist state
Annan said "States must also take the greatest care to ensure that counter-terrorism does not, any more than sovereignty, become an all-embracing concept that is used to cloak, or justify, violations of human rights," Mr. Annan stressed, adding Justice must be both "the means and the end."
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 4/13/2002
Israel continued brutal massacres in Jenin, collective tombs for the Palestinians, Operation in Palestine claims 10 Israelis
The results of the terrorist attacks by Israel against Palestinian civilians started to surface gradually, when the Israeli army itself admitted it killed hundreds of Palestinians, news reports indicated Israeli preparations to continue its acts this time against Gaza despite the fact that the US secretary of state Colin Powell is in the Palestinian territories in a mission said to aim at suspending the Israeli military operations.
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 4/13/2002
Israeli occupation forces are stealing the corpses of the Palestinians
President Arafat said yesterday: "Our people are subjected to a new Nazi style massacres and facing a devastating barbaric war targeting women children old and young men, and our Cities, towns, villages and refugee camps."
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 4/13/2002
Multinational force can stem Middle East carnage, open space for talks - Annan
"He's hoping that the Council will keep in mind the experience of Bosnia, where the carnage was allowed to carry on for years before a meaningful international fighting force was put in place," spokesman Fred Eckhard told a press briefing.
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 4/13/2002
Sending int'l observers not contingent on Israeli will
The issue of sending international observers to the Palestinian territories is not contingent on the Israeli will, said Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmad Maher.
Egypt-Palestine, Politics, 4/13/2002
Maher confers with Arafat
the cheapest price the Israeli prime minister was ready to pay during the visit held by the US secretary of state, noting that this decision (permitting Maher to meet with Arafat) is easier for Sharon than pulling out the Israeli tanks from the Palestinian territories.
Egypt-Palestine, Politics, 4/13/2002
Moussa in an international tour to ensure protection for the Palestinians
The secretary general of the Arab League (AL) Amr Moussa will pay a visit to each of Britain and Switzerland on April 15 through 18 of which he will stay on Monday and Tuesday in London to meet with the British foreign minister Jack Straw and then he will head for Geneva.
Israel-Palestine, Politics, 4/13/2002
Lahoud confers with Iranian foreign minister
Kharazi added: " I see that the US policy in this regard is not a clear and frank one. Should the US pursues a clear policy towards Israel, it would be easy to oblige it to stop its aggressions and brutal acts and should the US wants actually to abide Israel by this matter it would have permitted the UN security council under article 7 of the UN charter to issue a resolution that obliging Israel to stop its aggressions."
Lebanon-Iran, Politics, 4/13/2002
Government briefed on developments in Morocco-Spain ties
Moroccan minister of foreign affairs and cooperation, Mohamed Benaissa, briefed the cabinet council weekly meeting on latest developments of Moroccan-Spanish relations in light of recent contacts between the two countries' officials.
Morocco-Spain, Politics, 4/13/2002
Iraqi- Algerian talks
The Iraqi government news agency has announced that the Iraqi Vice President Taha Yassin Ramadan discussed with the Algerian foreign minister Abdul Aziz Balkhadem, currently visiting Iraq "the American threats against Iraq and conditions in the occupied territories."
Iraq-Algeria, Economics, 4/13/2002
Jordanian, Egyptian FMs meet on conditions in the Palestinian territories
The Jordanian foreign minister Marwan al-Mashaar and his Egyptian peer Ahmad Maher on Friday in Amman discussed the developments of conditions in the occupied Palestinian territories.
Jordan-Egypt, Politics, 4/13/2002
Ratification ceremony at UN paves way for International Criminal Court
That fact showed a real determination on the part of the international community "to finally put an end to this culture of impunity, and replace it with a culture of accountability for those crimes that are described in the statute - genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and eventually, also aggression," he said.
Regional, Politics, 4/13/2002
International Criminal Court treaty event heralding permanent war crimes court
"The time is at last coming when humanity no longer has to bear impotent witness to the worst atrocities, because those tempted to commit such crimes will know that justice awaits them," Mr. Annan said
Regional, Politics, 4/13/2002
Moroccan-Dutch businessmen call to up bilateral cooperation
The two parties discussed cooperation and partnership perspectives in the fields of agriculture, processing industries, maritime transport, information technologies, banking and finance.
Morocco-Netherlands, Economics, 4/13/2002
Mrs. Mubarak : legal struggle is the only weapon possessed by Palestinians to defend themselves
Meanwhile, Mrs. Mubarak highlighted that Israel violates all agreements, conventions and human rights and that Intifada and legal struggle is the only weapon possessed by Palestinians to defend themselves. She added that human bombs are the only way of desperate people who have no alternatives.
Egypt-Palestine, Politics, 4/13/2002
An explosion near the American embassy in Sanaa; demonstrations
a huge demonstration was held in Sanaa on Friday in support of the Palestinian people struggle against the Israeli occupation in which the demonstrators raised banners reading "No for the American- Israeli terrorism,"
Yemen-Palestine, Politics, 4/13/2002
Belgian Speaker: Europe will take economic measures
He said he cannot say whether the Belgian human rights court would subpoena Sharon, noting that the judicial system is completely idependent from politics.
Egypt-Belgium, Politics, 4/13/2002
Jordan postpones massive demonstration in support of Palestinians
the group condemned this measure by the Jordanian government and described it as oppressive and has converted Amman into a big prison in which the citizens were prevented from practicing their natural role
Jordan-Palestine, Politics, 4/13/2002
King Mohammed dedicates dam near Agadir
Morocco's King Mohammed VI on Friday dedicated a dam in the commune of Tamri, near the Moroccan southern Atlantic city of Agadir.
Morocco, Economics, 4/13/2002
Private sector rejects all forms of normalization with Tel-Aviv
He said Israel should be isolated completely and full economic sanctions must be imposed on it
Egypt-Israel, Economics, 4/13/2002
US delegation visits Fez
An American delegation, headed by assistant to the US trade representative in charge of Europe and the Mediterranean, Ms. Catherine Novelli, visited Thursday the Moroccan city of Fez, and met economic operators, academics and civil society representatives.
Morocco-USA, Economics, 4/13/2002
Belgium's Moroccan-born elected representatives decry statements of Israeli ambassador
Several Moroccan-born Belgian elected representatives and delegates of NGOs have decried recent statements by Israeli ambassador in Brussels, Chaul Amor, wherein he accused the Belgian government of adopting what he called a pro-Palestine policy to please Moroccan electorate.
Morocco-Belgium, Politics, 4/13/2002
Sorour: Arabs drew line between terrorism, resistance
The Arab world draws a clear distinction between resistance and terrorism which does not include legal resistance, said Speaker of the People's Assembly Ahmad Fathi Sorour.
Egypt-Palestine, Politics, 4/13/2002
Egypt's ties with Israel always at service of peacemaking, says Maher
The Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Maher Thursday said that Egypt's ties with Israel had always been for the service of establishing fair and durable peace in the Middle East. He told the CNN that it would be difficult for the Israelis, however, ill-intentioned they might be, to continue to defy world pressure.
Egypt-Israel, Politics, 4/13/2002
Speakers of Euro-Mediterranean parliaments call for Israeli pullout
Speakers of the Euro-Mediterranean parliaments expressed grave concern over Israel's occupation of some Palestinian towns and villages and called for implementation of Security Council resolutions 1397, 1402 and 1403.
Palestine-European Union, Politics, 4/13/2002
Somalis executed in Ethiopia over acts of violence
The Ethiopian higher federal court in a close door session on Thursday sentenced to death five Somalis over charges they had on April 4 over acts of violence.
Somalia-Ethiopia, Politics, 4/13/2002
Number of Jewish immigrants to Israel decreased by 30%
The year 2001 witnessed a decrease of 30% in the number of Jews immigrants to Israel from 60,000 in 2000 to 43,500 in 2001 because of the security deterioration in the region.
Palestine-Israel, Local, 4/13/2002
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Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak contacted late Friday with Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad. The telephone call dealt with the visit to Ramallah by Foreign Minister Ahmed Maher and his meeting with Palestinian President Yasser Arafat on Friday. They reviewed conditions on the Arab and international arenas and voiced support to the Palestinians people.
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The Syrian foreign minister Farouk al-Shara on Friday received the American ambassador in Damascus Theodore Qattouf, who handed him a message to President Bashar al-Assad from the US President George Bush relating to current developments in the region.
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Egypt decided to suspend its flight to Israel operated by "Air Sinai" for an indefinite time, as a reaction to the escalation of the Egyptian anger for the recent Israeli massacres against the Palestinian people. An Egypt Air official said that this decision is a response to the popular demands to stop the flights between Egypt and Israel, and in compliance to the pilots' request to stop operations to Tel Aviv.
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President Mubarak yesterday made a telephone contact with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat with whom he reviewed the situation in the region and the results of international consultations. The President got a telephone call from United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan to whom he underlined the fact that non implementation by Israel of the UNSC resolutions would undermine the UN credibility.
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Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Maher phoned US State Secretary Colin Powell late Friday. Maher highlighted the need for the Powell-Arafat meeting, slated for Saturday, to come up with the aspired outcome of an immediate Israeli withdrawal and an end of siege on Arafat.
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The Israeli warplanes on Friday renewed its violations of the Lebanese airspace and sovereignty over the Lebanese capital Beirut and areas of south Lebanon and the north of Lebanon and the bekaa breaking the sound barriers.
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In his Friday sermon, Al-Azhar Grand Imam Sheikh Mohammad Sayed Tantawi has asserted that any one who blows himself up in Israeli aggressors is a martyr and whoever contradicts this opinion is a sheer liar. Palestinians are resorting to all they possess of the means of force and are blowing themselves up for their freedom which is the highest level of martyrdom, said the Grand Imam.
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An opinion poll issued by the Israeli daily Maareve in its Friday's issue said that between 35% to 57% of the Israelis support the withdrawal of the Israeli forces from 80% of the territories of the West Bank under the condition of installing a fence between Israel and the Palestinian authority territories.
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Former Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu met on Thursday evening with the US Vice President Dick Cheny and the American national security advisor Gondoliza Rice. Netanyahu called during the meeting for working strongly against the Palestinians.
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