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People's movement delegation meets with Turabi in Khartoum
The delegation representing the southern rebels met with by leader of the opposition People's Congress party Hassan al-Turabi in his house in the capital Khartoum.The delegation discussed with Turabi means of developing dialogue between the two sides that started since three years when the two sides signed a memorandum of political alliance that resulted in detaining Turabi for more than 2 years.
Sudan, Politics, 12/8/2003
Egypt: trial of revolutionary socialists organization
The trial of five Egyptian activists, including four fleeing, accused of forming the "al-Ishtitakyeen and al-Thawreyeen" (revolutionary socialists) illegal organization to topple the regime, started on Saturday before the supreme state security court.
Egypt, Politics, 12/8/2003
Hunger strike by imprisoned journalist nothing to do with detention conditions, official
The hunger staged by the Moroccan journalist Ali Lamrabet in his prison cell in Sale (Rabat twin city) "has nothing to do with his detention conditions," said, in Rabat Friday, a communique of the department of penitentiary institutions of the ministry of justice.
Morocco, Politics, 12/8/2003
Al-Ahram: Mubarak, Da Silva discuss latest regional, international developments, bilateral relations
Brazil's President said: " In Brazil, we have great interest in the Middle East peace, but unfortunately I could not this time pay a visit to the Palestinian territories or Iraq and I wish I could visit them and discuss peace issues. I need simply to say that if the world paid attention before, for eradicating poverty and hunger, wars and terrors might not have taken place."
Regional-Brazil, Politics, 12/8/2003
Brazil's President meets Sheikh Zayed in Abu Dhabi: we are not hostile to America, rather demand sovereignty
President of the United Arab Emirates UAE Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan stressed during his meeting with BrazilŐs President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva yesterday his country's care to develop its relations with aBrazil at a time when Lula stressed that "our policy is not based on confrontation with the USA," rather pursuing "a genuine sovereignty."
United Arab Emirates-Brazil, Politics, 12/8/2003
Mrs. Al-Assad receives wonderful welcome from al-Badia Children
In one of the Bedouin's tents within the area, Syria's First Lady listened to music played on Rababah and to Arabic poetry recited by Rababah (musical instrument) player, and viewed a display of Arabic coffee and sweets. She then moved on to a second tent where an exhibition of tools that are still used in the Badia to accomplish everyday tasks including spinning and baking bread are on display. She was briefed on the sulfur water bath and also on the many beneficial use of sulfur water.
Syria, Environment, 12/8/2003
Egyptian, Sudanese, Ethiopian FMs keen to achieve peace, cooperation
At the joint press conference following the extensive meeting of the Egyptian, Sudanese and Ethiopian Foreign Ministers, Maher asserted that the relations among the three countries are deep-rooted, noting that they were very keen on achieving peace, progress and cooperation.
Egypt-Ethiopia, Politics, 12/8/2003
Morocco-Spain relations: Spain wants to overcome difficulties and look to future with optimism
Head of the Spanish government, Jose Maria Aznar, who described himself as "a friend" of Morocco said Spain wants to overcome all difficulties with Morocco, look to the future with optimism and "work together" in all fields, without exception.
Morocco-Spain, Politics, 12/8/2003
Qathafi expects near solution for compensations of Yuta victims
Libya's Leader of the Revolution Colonel Muammar al Qathafi considered in Tunis that the dispute with France over compensations for the victims of the Yuta plane is on its way to solution.
Libya-France, Politics, 12/8/2003
Iraq might restore its membership in Gulf institutions
Kuwait's foreign minister Sheikh Muhammad Sabah al-Salem al-Sabah on Saturday announced that the Gulf Cooperation Council GCC states will discuss during its next summit by the end of the current month the issue of Iraq's return to certain institutions in the council.
Iraq-Gulf, Politics, 12/8/2003
Syrian- Greek memo of understanding on oil explorations signed
Oil and Mineral Resources Minister Ibrahim Haddad and Greek Minister of development Apostolos-Athanasios Tsokhatzopoulos cosigned on Sunday an understanding memo on a cooperation in the fields of oil, Gas and mineral resources.
Syria-Greece, Economics, 12/8/2003
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The Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir met on Saturday late evening in Khartoum with the chairman of the opposition Ummah party al-Sadeq al-Mahdi in order to discuss development of negotiations in Nivasha and later pertinent political developments.
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Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak Sunday received Ethiopian Foreign Minister Seyoum Mesfin and his accompanying delegation who carried a message from Ethiopian Prime Minister Melez Zenawi.
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Syria's President Bashar al-Assad received Yemen's foreign minister Abu baker al-Qurabi at the People's Palace on Sunday and received a letter from President Ali Abdullah Saleh of the Republic of Yemen on the coordination between the two countries concerning the issues discussed.
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The second session of the joint Syrian-Omani Committee began in Muscat yesterday its deliberations and discussed a number of agreements like the scientific and technical cooperation agreements in the fields of agriculture, animals and fish.
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"His Majesty Sultan Qaboos bin Said has received a cable of thanks from President Vicente Fox of the United States of Mexico, in response to His MajestyŐs congratulatory cable on the occasion of his countryŐs Independence Anniversary," ONA reported yesterday.
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Sudan's President Omar Hasan al-Bashir stressed that the Arab Initiative, endorsed by Beirut Summit represents a solution to achieve just and comprehensive peace in the Middle East, but Israel replied to this initiative by storming the Jenin camp because it doesn't want to achieve this peace
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Official sources at the Greek embassy in Damascus said that President Bashar al-Assad and his wife will pay a visit to Greece on December 15th.
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Qatar's foreign minister Hamad Bin Jasem Bin Jaber al-Thani said that just, comprehensive peace could be brought to the Middle East through the resolution of Arab-Israeli conflict on the basis of Israeli total withdrawal from all the Arab occupied lands including the Syrian Golan, Lebanese Shebaa Farms and the establishment of a Palestinian Sovereign independent state.
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Syria and Greece signed in Damascus a cooperation agreement on higher education and scientific research.
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French president said in Tunis on Saturday that no solution to the Sahara issue (opposing Morocco and the Algeira-backed Polisario secessionists) should be imposed by a third party.
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"Hours only after the ceasefire talks between the Palestinian factions in Cairo failed, due to Israeli obstinacy, the Israeli occupying forces (IOF) invaded, with large forces, the city of Jenin, as well as erecting large military watch towers in several areas of the occupied Palestinian territories," the Palestinian IPC reported today.
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Spain said it supports the principle of "negotiations between parties" to reach a solution to the Sahara issue and called Maghreban countries to take "positive initiatives" in order to move forward in the Arab Maghreb Union (UMA) construction process.
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Arab members of parliament (MPs), meeting in Rabat, have deplored the injustice between rich and poor countries, and called for reducing the gap between the two.
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