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Syria: increased number of persons arrested in corruption cases
Number of persons who are held in the Customs general administration in Syria increased to 20. Well-informed sources in Damascus said that these acts of arrest fall in the course of investigation in reported corruption cases, but did not rule out that many of them will be released after the end of the investigations.
Syria, Politics, 12/19/2002
Iraq will resume negotiations on the fate of the missing
The International Committee of the Red Cross ICRC has announced that Iraq will resume negotiations following four years of suspension, with Kuwait and other countries, on the fate of several missing of the citizens of these countries, since the Gulf war in 1991.
Iraq-Kuwait, Politics, 12/19/2002
Saudi- Tunisian agreements on joint cooperation
He denied the postponement of the agreement on free trade and investment protection between Saudi Arabia and Tunisia
Tunisia-Saudi Arabia, Economics, 12/19/2002
Syria's First Lady stress education for development; business women accompany the president
Mrs. al-Assad raised few questions and indicated that teaching process is everyone's responsibility in the society and no development could be achieved without individuals self development.
Syria, Economics, 12/19/2002
Al-Assad meets with Arab journalists, British defense minister
Syria's President Bashar al-Assad received at his London residence yesterday Editors in Chief of the London-based Arabic dailies and Correspondents of different Radios,TVs, and News Agencies in London.
Syria-Regional-UK, Politics, 12/19/2002
Prince Talal describes the campaign against Saudi Arabia as repressive
Prince Talal Bin Tala Bin Abdul Aziz Al-Saud, half brother of Saudi Arabia's King Fahd, has described the campaign in certain American circles against Saudi Arabia as "repressive."
Saudi Arabia, Politics, 12/19/2002
Damascus Oil and Gas symposium
Miro underlined the government's interest in gas and oil investment and increasing production, as well as developing the prospecting ability, supporting the Syrian Company for Oil and following up the drilling campaigns in the frame of services and participation between the Local Company and prospecting companies.
Syria, Economics, 12/19/2002
Gulf leaders boycott the GCC summit in Qatar
Several leaders of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states chose boycotting the annual summit of the Gulf Cooperation Council which will start on Saturday in Doha, and thereby following Saudi Arabia's steps which decided to send lower raking representation to the summit in protest of the sharp criticism by al-Jazeera TV channel which had a program considered by Riyadh as damaging to it.
Gulf-Qatar, Politics, 12/19/2002
Abul Ragheb: Folley's assassinate hides in northern Iraq
The Jordanian Prime minister Ali Abul Ragheb has announced that the official in al-Qaida organization who ordered the killing for the US diplomat in Amman in October is most expectedly hiding in Iraq's Kurdistan, near the borders with Iran.
Jordan, Politics, 12/19/2002
Syrian- Russian party relations reviewed
Syria's Vice President and Vice Chairman of the National Progressive Front (NPF), Mohammed Zouhair Mashareqa, yesterday in Damascus received the visiting Russian Communist Party delegation headed by Party's 1st Deputy Chairman, Valentine Koptsov in the presence of the Secretary Generals of the Syrian NPF Parties.
Syria-Russia, Politics, 12/19/2002
One Palestinian killed, many wounded of Israeli attacks
The Palestinian Ala' Muhammad al-Saroudi ( 15 year old) was shot during confrontation between the Palestinian resistance fighters and the Israeli army forces in Rafah, where the Israeli bulldozers leveled the land before a military position near the border area with Egypt while other scores of Palestinians were wounded during a clash with the Israeli forces in Nablus.
Palestine-Israel, Military, 12/19/2002
Egypt prevents the circulation of the Lebanese Zawaya magazine
Owner and chief editor of the Lebanese magazine Zawaya ( corners ), Pierre Abi Saab, has stressed that the Egyptian auditors prevented the circulation of the third issue of his magazine which was published in the mid of December because of the cover's picture.
Egypt, Politics, 12/19/2002
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The Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh will start an official visit to Lebanon that will last for two days. He is accompanies by a high ranking Yemeni delegation including several ministers and among them is the foreign minister Abu Baker al-Qurabai.
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United Arab Emirates (UAE) President, Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan issued a decree for ratifying the legal and judicial cooperation agreement between Syria and the USA. The decree gives nationals of the two states within the borders of the other the right to resort to courts to defend their rights and interests and to protect them under the same enforced legal and protection conditions given to nationals.
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Syria's President Bashar Al-Assad and his wife yesterday evening arrived in Paris from London for a short visit to France where he met with the French President Jacque Chirac. Both presidents underlined continued intention to work so that the UN Security Council would be the only source for evaluating UN Inspectors work; both sides voiced satisfaction over the cooperation of Iraq with the inspectors
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British Foreign Minister Jack Straw described Syrian -British talks as "constructive and successful." In a statement to London-based Al-Hayat newspaper, Straw affirmed that the importance of the meetings is to achieve a deeper understanding of each other's stances as well as to obtain joint understanding, stressing that this understanding is possible.
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The Kuwaiti deputy premier and foreign minister has denied that Kuwait had contracted with Germany to buy Fox tanks and equipment specialized in chemical war during the visit of the German defense minister to Kuwait last Sunday.
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The Pakistani prime minister Meir Zafrullah Khan Jamali will on December 29 pay an official visit to Saudi Arabia which was the first of its kind since he assumed his duty.
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