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The Polisario front denied that United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan proposed dividing the Sahara with Morocco. The Polisario's statement said that Annan's proposed suggestions to overcome the problems surrounding counting voters, identity specification, the return of persons who will participate in the referendum and the new timetable for the referendum. Go

The chairman of the Yemeni Parliament, Sheikh Abdullah al-Ahmar, criticized severely today the United States and Britain and expressed his sorrow over the the Arab position toward the air missile shelling on Iraq. Al-Ahmar said, "I console the rulers of the Arab nation and its leaders to what happened to the Iraqi Moslem people. It is a terrible aggression and terrorism, and I console them in themselves and in their people because the destruction and the aggression were on the whole nation in which hatred from the USA and Britain to the Arab and the Islamic nation was very obvious." Go

The first stage for the project of the free industrial zone in East Port Said, which takes place in 5 stages that will be be completed by year 2007, is finished with investments of 4.25 billion pound through international companies which presented offers for establishing factories to build a variety of products including electronics. Go

The Moroccan Health Federation (close to the independent Moroccan Labor Union/UMT) called on the health staff to observe a strike on December 30-31. Go

Libyan television reported that the president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Laurent Kabila, arrived yesterday in Tripoli, Libya where he immediately met with Libyan leader Colonel Moammar Gaddafi. The television report described the visit of being urgent and that Kabila reviewed the latest developments in the area in the great lakes. Go

Algerian Peaceful Society Movement (Hamas) decided today to form an organization to nominate its leader Sheikh Mahfouz Nahnah in the Algerian presidential election that will be held next April. The proposed organization would follow up on the election process and set up the electoral program, as well as prepare the election campaign. Go

The hotel and resort of Dahab's Hilton will start its actual activity after a formal inauguration attended by Egyptian Minister of Tourism Mamdouh El-Beltagi. The resort contains 163 units comprising 2 floors, tennis courts, a diving center, water sports facilities, and electronic games. Go

During the first 10 months of the current year, the volume of Egyptian exports to Lebanon in 1998 amounted to nearly $41 million dollars where the most important exported goods are onions, potatoes, frozen vegetables, dates, rice, peanuts and artichokes in addition to Egyptian industrial products. Go

The American Chamber of Commerce in Egypt is currently organizing an economic and commercial commission to visit the US starting on February 23 and aimed at increasing Egyptian exports to the US and promoting projects raised in the Egyptian privatization program. Go

In the context of developing relations between Iran and the Arab Gulf states, Bahrain has appointed a new ambassador to Iran, said the Bahraini daily al-Ayam (days). The daily added that Salman Abdul Wahab al-Sabagh, arrived in Tehran on Thursday as Bahrain's ambassador to Iran to assume his post as ambassador for Bahrain to Iran. Go

The Arab League has called for an emergency meeting of the AL council on Wednesday on the level of foreign ministers to make consultations on the current Arab conditions, the US-British attack against Iraq and means of convening the plenary Arab summit recently called for by Yemen. Go