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Political leaders broadly satisfied with results of Friday's local elections
Following the announcement of results of Friday's communal elections, during which 54.16% of the 14,620,937 registered voters cast their votes, leaders of political parties that took part in these polls were broadly satisfied with the results and atmosphere of these elections.
Morocco, Politics, 9/15/2003
Press comments on Morocco's local polls results
The communal elections made the headlines of Moroccan dailies published this Sunday.
Morocco, Politics, 9/15/2003
Time to get rid of the US or the UN
Either the US does the world a favor and leaves the UN, as many in the US always claimed they want; good riddance. Or the US agrees to a complete overhaul of the UN Security Council with the complete elimination of the veto rights.
Regional, Analysis, 9/15/2003
Arafat thanks Syria for its support
Syria's Foreign Minister Farouk al-Shara received in Damascus yesterday a phone call from Chairman of the Palestinian Liberation Organization, Yasser Arafat.
Palestine-Syria, Politics, 9/15/2003
Otri- continued consultations on the New Syrian Government
Naji Otri, who is charged with the formation of the new government continued in Damascus continued his discussions and consultations.
Syria, Politics, 9/15/2003
Libya denies efforts to own mass destruction weapons
Libya officially denied yesterday the US accusations saying it had sought to own mass destruction weapons and described the information to this effect as false.
Libya, Politics, 9/15/2003
Chris Patten to visit Syria from 15 to 17 September 2003
The EU commissioner for foreign political affairs, Chris Patten, will pay an official visit to Syria from 15 to 16 September 2003. The main objective of the visit is to reinforce EU-Syria relations and speed up negotiations on an EU-Syria Association Agreement.
Syria-European Union, Economics, 9/15/2003
Al-Assad meets with British house of commons selegation
President Bashar al-Assad received on Saturday a delegation representing the Foreign Affairs Committee in the British House of Commons headed by Donald Anderson.
Syria-UK, Politics, 9/15/2003
Garang for forming a joint force during the transitional period
A source close to the negotiations currently taking place in Kenya between the Sudanese authorities and the southern rebels said that the rebels proposed on Sunday to establish a joint armed forces -- beside their forces and the government's army -- during the transitional period which will last for 6 years, according to a previous agreement.
Sudan, Politics, 9/15/2003
Lahoud: Syrian- Lebanese experience an example to be followed
Lebanese President Emile Lahoud has stressed that the Syrian- Lebanese experience of solidarity is a example that could be followed.
Lebanon-Syria, Politics, 9/15/2003
Al-Shara holds talks with Spanish peer
Foreign Minister al-Shara stressed that Syria wants the deliberations of the meeting to reflect the will of the Iraqi people in the first place and to ensures the unity, sovereignty and independence of the Iraqi territories by giving a pivotal role to the United Nations.
Syria-Spain, Politics, 9/15/2003
Saudi foreign minister stresses Syria, Lebanon role in ME peace making
Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister, Prince Saud al-Faisal has stressed that peace would not be achieved in the Middle East unless it was a just and comprehensive one and unless it included a solution for the Syrian - Lebanese track.
Saudi Arabia-Regional, Politics, 9/15/2003
Omran confers with Italian delegation
Syria's Information Minister Adnan Omran met in Damascus yesterday the Italian delegation representing parliamentarians, university teachers, writers and men of letters.
Syria-Italy, Politics, 9/15/2003
Powell: security situation in Iraq is a challenge
The US Secretary Of State Colin Powell said that the security situation in Iraq still represents a challenge, but he stressed his confidence in the success of the American forces to achieving stability and democracy.
Iraq-USA, Politics, 9/15/2003
Al Khaleej: Morocco says Israel's decision to expel Arafat is unacceptable
Morocco deemed Saturday the Israeli decision to expel Palestinian president Yasser Arafat as "unacceptable." "It cannot contribute to the quest for a fair peace" in the Middle East, Moroccan communication minister and government spokesman, Nabil Benabdellah, told the UAE daily "Al Khaleej" in an interview published Saturday.
Morocco-Palestine, Politics, 9/15/2003
Beirut Arab Assembly deplores Israeli practices against the Palestinians
The Arab Assembly on backing the Palestinian and Iraqi people has condemned the Israeli siege on Palestinians in their towns and cities.
Regional-Israel, Politics, 9/15/2003
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The Omani official News agency said "Dates have been set for voting at polling stations set up in some sisterly Arab and Gulf countries to allow members of the Omani communities there to participate in Majlis A'shura elections."
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Arab Foreign Ministers will fold an extraordinary meeting at 22nd of the current month, on the sideline of the session of UN Secretariat General to discuss the Israeli threats of expelling, Chairman of the Palestinian Authority, Yasser Arafat.
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Syria's Minister of Economy and Foreign Trade Ghassan Rifaee received in Damascus yesterday Sudanese State Minister for Industry Affairs Rateb Othman on cooperation, particularly in the economic domain.
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Russian Ambassador for Special Missions has said that the situation in the ME arena stood on the top of the international Quartet Committees' discussions in Geneva today.
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Syria's Foreign Minister Farouk al-Shara received in Damascus on Saturday a delegation representing the Foreign Affairs Committee in the British House of Commons headed by Donald Anderson. Talks on "the Israeli practices that shut doors in the face of peace realization" and "the parliaments' role in revealing the real situation in the region" Syria said.
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Relations between Spain and Morocco are "very good," said Spanish defense minister, Federico Trillo.
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The spokesman for the Kuwaiti research team for the prisoners and missing in Iraq Fayez al-Anzi said yesterday that the remains of the Lebanese Sobhi Khalil Nasouhi Haidar ( born in 1962), and arrested on November 2nd, 1990 in Kuwait was among the remains of five Kuwaiti prisoners in the second Gulf war in 1991 inside a mass grave in southern Iraq.
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