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Mubarak: We coordinate with al-Assad to unify Arab ranks
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has asserted that coordination is continuous between him and President Hafez al-Assad for the interests of the Arab nation in an attempt to "unify Arab ranks and restore Arab solidarity."
Egypt-Regional, Politics, 1/29/1999
Arab League chief, al-Sharaa discuss the situation in Iraq
Arab League Secretary General Esmat Abdul Meguid on Thursday made a telephone call to Syrian Foreign Minister Farouk al-Sharaa in his capacity as chairman of the ministerial committee assigned by the Arab foreign ministers to follow up moves with the UN Security Council to lift the economic sanctions imposed on Iraq.
Regional, Politics, 1/29/1999
Holland and the Israeli El Al plane scandal
On Wednesday, the Dutch parliament started its first investigation sessions concerning the "poisonous gases" which were thought to be carried by a Boeing 747 plane owned by the Israeli El Al company, which crushed near Amsterdam on October 4,1992.
Israel-Netherlands, Politics, 1/29/1999
Mubarak to arrive in Turkey today
The Turkish (semi-official) news agency Anatolia has reported that Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak will visit Turkey to hold talks with Turkish President Suleiman Demirel.
Egypt-Turkey, Politics, 1/29/1999
Syria: extension for the posts of the defense minister, army chief of staff
Well-informed sources in Damascus told the London-based al-Hayat daily that a decree released on Wednesday to sides concerned extended the legal age for the one who occupies one of the two posts of the defense minister and the army chief of staff to 70 years old instead of 67.
Syria, Politics, 1/29/1999
Turkey studies the situation in Iraq
The deputy spokesman for the Turkish Foreign Ministry, Sarmid Atajnli, has asserted that the Turkish Foreign Ministry is embarking on studying recent developments concerning Iraq, according to the directives of Turkish Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit.
Turkey-Iraq, Politics, 1/29/1999
Russia condemns Israeli Knesset decision to perpetuate occupation of the Golan
Russia has condemned the decision recently adopted by the Israeli Knesset concerning the occupied Syrian Golan Heights and Jerusalem adding that such a decision creates major additional complications against the peace process in the region.
Regional-Israel-Russia, Politics, 1/29/1999
Saudi defense minister, Albright stress to Crown Prince Abdullah support for Jordan
Sources close to Jordan's King Hussein at the Mayo clinic said that he is "very pleased over the conditions in his country after necessary arrangements on his succession to the throne were made in appointing his elder son Prince Abdullah as crown prince instead of his younger brother, Prince Hassan, who was removed."
Jordan-Saudi Arabia-USA, Politics, 1/29/1999
Morocco and U.N. sign agreement on Sahara settlement plan
Morocco and the United Nations concluded on Wednesday an agreement on the resumption of the identification of would-be voters in the self-determination referendum that the U.N. plans to hold in the Sahara.
Morocco, Politics, 1/29/1999
Greece wishes political solution to Sebta-Mellilia issue
Greece on Wednesday voiced hope that Morocco and Spain would find a "political solution" to the issue of Sebta and Mellilia, two Moroccan northern cities still under Spanish rule.
Morocco-Greece, Politics, 1/29/1999
History of Syrian agriculture
The earliest prehistoric remains of human habitation found in Syria and Palestine are from the Middle Paleolithic period. In the next stage are remains of rhinoceros and of men who are classified as intermediate between Neanderthal and modern types.
Syria-Regional, History, 1/29/1999
Maghreban Union remains a strategic option for Tunisia, president says
President Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali of Tunisia, renewed on Thursday that the Arab Maghreb Union remains a strategic and irreversible option for his country.
Tunisia-Maghreb, Politics, 1/29/1999
Riyadh backs an international agreement to fight terrorism
Saudi Minister of the Interior Prince Nayef Bin Abdul Aziz al-Saud has supported laying down an international agreement to fight terrorism, under the supervision of the UN.
Saudi Arabia-Regional, Politics, 1/29/1999
Mubarak in Paris on Monday
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is to visit Paris on Monday on his return from Davos, Switzerland after participating in the international economic forum.
Egypt-France, Politics, 1/29/1999
Patriarch Hazim discusses with Canterbury archbishop conditions in Jerusalem
attended by 760 archbishops representing the Anglican church in the world was very clear in its support for the rights of the Palestinian people to self-determination and the establishment of their own independent state on their national soil and that Jerusalem, being very important for the three divine religions (Judaism, Christianity and Islam) cannot be a key for peace if it remains under the authority of the Israeli occupation.
Regional, Religion, 1/29/1999
Privatization minister pleads for integrating small firms in productive fabric
These firms generate large numbers of jobs, but did not benefit from any attention of the part of the public and private decision-makes in the past decades, he said.
Morocco, Economics, 1/29/1999
Moroccan government calls Arabs to turn page of the past
Spokesman of the Moroccan government, Khalid Alioua, called the Arab world to turn the page of the past and meet Arab peoples' aspirations for unification.
Morocco, Politics, 1/29/1999
Israeli bombardment of Qekya's kill 35 sheep
The Israeli bombardment of Qekya's surroundings in the western Bekaa killed 35 sheep owned by Lebanese citizen Muhammad Hussein Qasem.
Lebanon-Israel, Military, 1/29/1999
Morocco and Greece conclude decentralization accord
The covenant provides for the consolidation of bilateral cooperation in the fields of liberties, human rights and economic and social development.
Morocco-Greece, Politics, 1/29/1999
Iraq criticizes statements by Japanese Foreign Minister
The Iraqi daily "Iraq" has criticized what it described as Japanese support for the US in its confrontation with Iraq saying, "This country," Japan, "has behaved as Iraq had dropped atomic bombs on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki."
Iraq-Japan, Politics, 1/29/1999
Israel admits failure of military acts in south Lebanon
Chief of staff of the Israeli Army, Shaoul Mufaz, has admitted the failure of the military operations carried out by the Israeli occupation army in south Lebanon.
Israel, Politics, 1/29/1999
Morocco and Niger wish to conclude interim commercial accord
Morocco and Niger voiced hope to conclude an interim commercial accord pending the enforcement of the Economic and Monetary Union of Western Africa (UEMOA).
Morocco-Niger, Politics, 1/29/1999
Turkey, Lebanon deny press reports on Ocalan existence in Lebanon
Turkish Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit on Thursday denied a Turkish press report "defining" the place where chairman of the Kurdistan Workers Party Abdullah Ocalan exist in "a Middle Eastern country," a matter which raised numerous rumors that this country may be Lebanon or Iraq.
Lebanon, Politics, 1/29/1999
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German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer is to visit Cairo on February 13 within his tour of the area, which includes Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Israel and the Palestinian self-rule areas.
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Lebanon's current government plans to balance the country's budget within five years, Future News reported.
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UAE University's Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences released a study saying that medical tests should be conducted on local drivers to help reduced accidents brought on by conditions such as epilepsy, Gulf News reported.
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31 people were killed and another 45 wounded in inter-clan fighting in central Somalia, Oman Daily Observer reported.
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Bahrain's minister of interior, preparing to leave for the council of Arab interior ministers in Jordan, said that cooperation in sharing information between Arab states has helped boost regional security, Gulf Daily News reported.
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The United Nations Security Council extended the mandate of UNIFIL, its force in south Lebanon, until July 31, 1999.
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A hundred of Moroccan print media journalists staged a one-hour sit-in on Thursday in front of the headquarters of the National Press Union (SNPM) in downtown Rabat. The journalists, who were wearing red armbands, were protesting their work and material conditions.
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Saudi Arabia, represented by the ministry of health, will attend the two day 24th session of the GCC health ministers' council's 46th conference in Muscat from 10 February. The ministers will discuss a number of regional and international health issues, particularly those related to the region's states.
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The harsh reality of major budget cut backs forced by low oil prices has yet to hit home for most people in Saudi Arabia, economists and diplomats in the kingdom said yesterday. They said government was making concerted efforts to shelter Saudi from the impact of the budgets reductions in the 1999 budget announced a month ago and had backed away from sharing the sacrifice across the board.
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Gold trade in the Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates, fell by nearly 40% last year due to the trend of the merchants in India to import directly from gold-producing countries after the resolution of the Indian government to lifting restrictions on the imports of the yellow metal.
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A fair for Syrian medical products is to be held on Saturday in Tripoli, Libya where the fair will include exhibitions of medical, humanitarian and veterinarian products and last until February 2.
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Egyptian Minister of Trade Ahmed Goweili announced that the Group of 15 developing group signed eight agreements to encourage and protect investment, after the end of the meetings of the deputies in member states at Davos, Switzerland and before convening of the group's summit in Jamaica during February.
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Speaker of the Syrian People's Assembly Abdul Qader Qaddoura on Thursday in Damascus received the secretary general of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Nayef Hawatemeh, who was accompanied by several of the front's political bureau members. Talks dealt with conditions in the region, the Arab - Israeli conflict and the cause of Palestine.
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The Syrian general cement establishment and its affiliated companies' profits in the first half of 1998 were estimated at 8.4 million Syrian pounds. The establishment's sources said that clinker production developed at 35.8% and reached 4.177 million tonnes in 1997 after it was 3 million tonnes on 1991.
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