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El-Baz: Iraqis need effective action to end their suffering
Osama El-Baz, the Egyptian president's political advisor, said the Egyptian position toward the Iraqi crisis expressed the government's great awareness and concern with the reality of the situation.
Egypt-Iraq, Politics, 12/29/1998
Turkey blames Iraq for yesterday's clash with US jets
Turkey fully blamed Iraq for the new military confrontation that took place yesterday in northern Iraq, urging the concerned parties to refrain carrying out any provocative action that might threaten stability and security in the area.
Iraq-Turkey, Politics, 12/29/1998
GCC member states to hold extraordinary meeting
Well-informed sources in Manama, Bahrain said on Monday that intensive contacts are being made between the Gulf Cooperation Council's six member states to convene an extraordinary meeting of the GCC states' foreign ministers.
Gulf, Politics, 12/29/1998
Kuwaiti petroleum minister warns of $5 per barrel price for oil
Kuwait warned yesterday that petroleum prices could reach $5 per barrel unless the producers take an immediate steps to prevent that.
Kuwait-Regional-OPEC, Economics, 12/29/1998
Atlass alliance calls countries and Israel for consultations in Spain
Egyptian sources said that the El-Atlas alliance decided to call representatives of Morocco, Tunisia, Jordan, Mauritania, Egypt and Israel for convening consultations on the level of ambassadors in Valencia - Spain during February.
Regional, Politics, 12/29/1998
Morocco launches program to save livestock from dry winter
Morocco launched last week a program, worth 196 million dh ($21.3 million), to save its livestock, an official at the agriculture ministry said.
Morocco, Agriculture, 12/29/1998
President Mubarak to visit Damascus on results of his talks in Ankara
The Jordanian weekly al-Majd reported that Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak will visit Damascus within days and inform Syrian President Hafez al-Assad on the results of his talks in Ankara with Turkish President Suleiman Demirel.
Syria-Egypt, Politics, 12/29/1998
Syrian-Lebanese higher economic committee meets in Beirut
The Syrian-Lebanese higher economic committee started its deliberations on Monday in Beirut chaired by Syrian Prime Minister Mahmoud al-Zou'bi and his Lebanese counterpart, Salim al-Hoss.
Lebanon-Syria, Politics, 12/29/1998
Mubarak calls on US and Europe to find just peace
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has reiterated the importance of establishing a just and comprehensive peace in the Middle East region that ensures security and stability for all.
Egypt, Politics, 12/29/1998
Lebanese president confers with Syrian premier
Lebanese President Lt. Gen. Emile Lahoud on Monday received Syrian Prime Minister Mahmoud al-Zou'bi. Following the meeting al-Zou'bi told journalists that he conveyed President al-Assad's greetings to the Syrian people and government.
Syria-Lebanon, Politics, 12/29/1998
Kuwait suffers deterioration in its economy
Kuwaiti Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah is to convene a meeting today with the chief of the nation's council and members of parliamentary committees to present the government's plan for dealing with the bad economic situation through which Kuwait is currently passing.
Kuwait, Economics, 12/29/1998
163 soldiers freed as another sign of Sudanese seriousness about liberties
Sudanese Minister of Defense Maj. Gen. Ibrahim Suleiman issued a decision that dropped the remainder of sentences for 163 soldiers.
Sudan, Judicial, 12/29/1998
Palestinian president aspires to meet with Clinton
A Palestinian source stated that there are current communications with the US to convene a meeting between Palestinian President Yasser Arafat and US President Bill Clinton at the beginning of 1999 to demand a decisive attitude toward Israel in the implementation of the agreements signed with the Palestinian side.
Palestine-USA, Politics, 12/29/1998
Former Algerian premier warns against a closed presidential elections
Former Algerian Prime Minister Mawloud Hamrough warned of the seriousness of holding closed presidential elections that could expose the state's corporations to isolation, wasting the progress that took place in democratic practices and weakening the parties.
Algeria, Politics, 12/29/1998
Yemeni tribe clans explode main oil pipelines
It was announced in Sanaa on Monday than Yemeni tribal clans exploded the main oil pipeline in Yemen. So far the volume of damage and the effect of the explosion on production have not been determined.
Yemen, Local, 12/29/1998
10 agreements between Egypt and Belgium
Egyptian Minister of Trade and Supply Ahmed Goweili announced yesterday that the Crown Prince Philip of Belgium will pay a four-day visit to Egypt starting on February 27 to head a delegation of Belgian businessmen and officials.
Egypt-Belgium, Economics, 12/29/1998
CIA expands activities in self-rule areas
Israeli radio has said that the United States' Central Intelligence Agency has intensified its activities in the Palestinian self-rule area and opened offices for itself in Gaza, Hebron and Nablus.
Palestine-USA, Politics, 12/29/1998
Jordan prevents a meeting for Iraq's Sadoun Hammadi
The Jordanian authorities prevented a meeting scheduled for Monday night for the speaker of the Iraqi national council Sadoun Hammadi and members of his accompanying delegation with the representatives of Jordanian vocational trade unions.
Jordan-Iraq, Politics, 12/29/1998
Intensive Israeli - Palestinian contacts on early Israeli elections
The Jordanian weekly al-Majd reported that intensive contacts were recently made between the Palestinian Authority and the leadership of the Israeli Labor Party in order to review certain matters relating to the early Israeli Knesset elections which will be held in the first half of 1999.
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 12/29/1998
Hamas political bureau member harassed at Jordanian border
Member of the political bureau of the Palestinian Hamas movement Muhammad Nazzal was held for four hours at Jordan's al-Ramtha border center upon his arrival from Damascus last week after he took part as the Hamas representative in the works of the Palestinian opposition conference held in Damascus.
Jordan, Politics, 12/29/1998
Iraqi opposition intends to reassemble
Sources from the High Islamic Revolutionary Council in Iraq, headquartered in Iran, said that the Iraqi opposition in exile is thinking of a reassembly formula to be examined.
Iraq, Politics, 12/29/1998
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The French government has approved the renewal of banking loans for development projects in Tunisia, valued at $40 million dollars lasting for a year to finance projects dealing with extracting oils from seeds and cereals, Tunisian economic sources told ArabicNews.com.
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Arab sources in Cairo expected that the Arab states would unanimously approve on the Arab summit suggested by Yemen to take a measure against the US/British military actions against Iraq. on the other hand, the League's Secretary General Esmat Abd El-Magid announced that till yesterday only 15 among 22 member states of the Arab League approved on the Arab foreign ministers meeting that was to be held on Wednesday.
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Israeli-allied South Lebanon Army troops withdrew from positions in the Jezzine - Kfar Falous area of south Lebanon today, the Lebanese National News Agency reported, saying that Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri dismissed the withdrawal as meaningless.
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Iraq has asserted that it will not respect the no-fly zones currently imposed by the US on northern and southern Iraq, despite yesterday's clash in which four Iraqis were killed. Iraq claims a US jet was shot down.
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Bahrain's Cabinet approved a proposal to establish a Gulf Cooperation Council job bank which would allow for GCC citizens to be treated equally in employment in all GCC states, Gulf News reported.
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Qatar's foreign minister said Qatar will reconsider the presence of the Israeli representation office in Doha if the Middle East peace process collapses, Gulf Times reported.
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A draft municipal law will be submitted to the Kuwaiti Cabinet which would coordinate government agencies' cooperation in municipal affairs, Kuwait Times reported.
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Jordan has denied reports that it granted citizenship to the son-in-law of former Indonesian President Suharto, Jordan Times reported.
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Half of the Moroccan Jews, estimated at more than 500,000, have decided to go back to Morocco. A percentage of 64% of Moroccan Jews living in Israel wish to go back to Morocco, according to Lebanese "Achiraa" magazine which quoted the Israeli "Yediot Aharonot" daily.
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With 131,406 souls, the Moroccan expatriates settled in Italy form the largest foreign community in the European peninsula, the Italian press said. The number of Moroccan expatriates in Italy increased between 1996 and 1998 by 39 percent. They presently account for 10.6% of the foreign community living in Italy.
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Algeria renewed on Monday adherence to the United Nations settlement plan for the Sahara, which provides for the holding of a self-determination referendum.
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King Hassan II received on Monday in Rabat President Jacques Chirac of France. The king then held tete-a-tete talks with the French head of state, who is currently on a private visit to Morocco.
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Colonel Moammar Gaddafi, the leader of the Libyan revolution, received a delegation of Egyptian pioneers who are making a trip organized by the pioneer sector in the Supreme Council for Youth and Sport to Arab and other close countries.
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The special envoy of the European Union on the Middle East peace process, Angel Moratinos, has asserted that the EU supports Israel's complete and total withdrawal from the occupied Syrian Golan Heights and seeks to resume negotiations on the Lebanese and Syrian tracks in order to achieve a just and comprehensive peace in the region.
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Jordanian Prime Minister Fayez Tarawneh met on Monday in Amman with the speaker of the Algerian People's Assembly, Abdul Qader bin Saleh. During the meeting, the two sides reviewed the results of the 33rd urgent session of the Arab Parliamentary Union. Also reviewed were conditions in the region, Arab and international issues and relations between the two countries.
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Well-informed sources about the internal situation in Iraq stressed to the Kuwaiti daily al-Anba on Monday that the Iraqi authorities demanded large numbers of tents to accommodate thousands of soldiers whose centers and barracks were destroyed in the southern and central areas of Iraq during the recent Operation Desert Fox, which was carried out by the British and US troops against Iraq.
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Yemeni Foreign Minister Abdul Qader Bajmal has stressed that Yemen seeks to settle border disputes with Saudi Arabia "amicably." In an interview with BBC radio on Monday, Bajmal did not rule out that Yemen will resort to international arbitration if it is not possible to reach an agreement that is satisfactory for the two sides.
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