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Libyan proposal for a united Arab airspace
Tripoli has asked to include a new topic under the title "Considering the Arab airspace as a united Arab one" in the agenda of the 112th session of the Arab League council, due to be held on September 4 and 5. An official at the AL general secretariat said the AL has enrolled this topic under joint Arab work issues.
Regional-Libya, Politics, 7/23/1999
Aznar conveys message from President al-Assad to Barak
Israeli sources stated that Syrian President Hafez al-Assad has sent a message to Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak through the Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar in which President al-Assad replied to the "red lines" proposed by Barak to US President Bill Clinton concerning negotiations with Syria.
Syria-Israel-Spain, Politics, 7/23/1999
Palestinian forces refute campaigns against Syria
The central command of the Alliance of the Palestinian Forces has asserted its committment and adherence to its national principles and continued struggle to complete the Palestinian national project.
Palestine-Syria, Politics, 7/23/1999
Pardon covers Iraqis who received asylum abroad
An official at the Iraqi Foreign Ministry has announced that the pardon recently released by the Iraqi authorities for Iraqis who left Iraq also covers those who received the right of asylum in foreign countries.
Iraq, Politics, 7/23/1999
Damascus: Political prisoners to be released soon
High-ranking Syrian sources told a London-based daily that the next few days will witness the release of several political prisoners in Syria, according to the pardon released by President al-Assad last week.
Syria, Politics, 7/23/1999
Morocco hails positive evolution of ties with Algeria
"We note with satisfaction the new positive climate between Morocco and Algeria and we hail this evolution," spokesman of the Moroccan government, Khalid Alioua, told the press Thursday after the weekly meeting of the Cabinet council, held under the chairmanship of Prime Minister Abderrahmane Youssoufi.
Morocco-Algeria, Politics, 7/23/1999
Interior minister urges Sahrawis rejected from referendum identification to lodge appeals
Moroccan Interior Minister Driss Basri on Wednesday urged Sahrawis whose applications to register for the referendum in the Sahara were arbitrarily turned down by the United Nations Identification Commission to introduce appeals in this respect.
Morocco, Politics, 7/23/1999
Italy takes part in upgrading animal wealth in Egypt
An Italian delegation representing 33 major companies specializing in the technology of manufacturing and breeding animals is going to visit Egypt during September in cooperation with Italian trade center in Cairo and the Egyptian industrial and agricultural ministers.
Egypt-Italy, Agriculture, 7/23/1999
Saudi economic delegation to visit Cairo
A Saudi business delegation is due to visit Egypt during the coming week to discuss with Egyptian businessmen opportunities for mutual investment, especially in the domains of tourism, hotels, and real estate investment.
Egypt-Saudi Arabia, Economics, 7/23/1999
Aznar calls in Gaza for implementing Wye River agreement
Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar has voiced support for the positoin advocated by Palestinian President Yasser Arafat in that Israel should honor its obligations in making progress in the Middle East peace process.
Palestine-Spain, Politics, 7/23/1999
Palestinian official denies Syrian pressure to halt armed struggle
Maher al-Taher, a member of the political bureau of the People's Front for the Liberation of Palestine, has denied in a statement to the BBC that Syrian Vice President Abdul Halim Khaddam asked the Palestinian opposition groups based in Damascus to give up armed struggle.
Palestine-Syria, Politics, 7/23/1999
UAE finances $ 50-million housing compound in Gaza
The "Sheikh Zayed city of families of martyrs," named after the UAE head of state, will comprise 3,574 flats, two mosques, health centers, cultural centers, schools, a market, a sports complex and two gardens.
United Arab Emirates-Palestine, Economics, 7/23/1999
Venezuela offers Morocco its low-cost power fuel
Venezuela is interested in upgrading partnership with Morocco in matters of energy and offered the kingdom its low-cost fuel developed for the production of electricity.
Morocco-Venezuela, Economics, 7/23/1999
11 percent of jobs in Morocco are provided by tourism
Moroccan Tourism Minister Hassan Sebbar called the new graduates to set up their own enterprises in order to create jobs for others, and announced that new courses of hotel and tourism business management will be taught in the school.
Morocco, Politics, 7/23/1999
Economic growth is less than population growth in Syria
A study prepared and submitted by Syrian businessmen for the Syrian government, through the Damascus Chamber of Industry said that average economic growth in Syria during the period from 1985 until 1996 was almost 2.11% annually, whereas the population growth for the same period was estimated at 3.4%.
Syria, Economics, 7/23/1999
Morocco-EU fisheries accord will not be renewed, minister
The Morocco-European Union fisheries accord will not be renewed when it expires next november 30 and Spanish fishing boats will no longer have the possibility to operate directly in Moroccan grounds after this date, said spokesman of the Moroccan government, Khalid Alioua.
Morocco-European Union, Politics, 7/23/1999
Egyptian - Eritrean commercial cooperation
Egypt and Eritrea agreed on a note of understanding for economic and commercial cooperation between the two countries and cooperation protocols between the two countries' fair departments as well as a cooperation protocol between the public union of Egyptian trade chambers and its Eritrean counterpart.
Egypt-Eritrea, Economics, 7/23/1999
Baghdad seeks to increase trade volume with Arab states
Iraqi President Saddam Hussien said that he will seek to achieve an increase in Iraq's trade volume with Arab states, calling on their governments to implement this step.
Iraq-Regional, Economics, 7/23/1999
Prizes in Egyptian cinema festival worth 320,000 pounds
The fifth session of the Egyptian cinema festival is to start at the end of the current month and last for a week.
Egypt, Culture, 7/23/1999
African international industrial conference in Algeria
An international African investment and industrial conference is due to be held in October in Algeria, with the participation of African countries, representatives of major industrial cities and the European Union.
Regional-Algeria-Africa, Economics, 7/23/1999
Yemeni president accused of avoiding competition in presidential elections
The secretary general of the Yemeni Socialist Party, Ali Saleh Abbad, accused Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh on Thursday of not wanting a rival in the presidential elections to be held on September 23.
Yemen, Politics, 7/23/1999
UNSCOM poisons in Iraq to be destroyed on Sunday
The UN secretary general's special representative in Iraq, Prakash Shah, has announced that the destruction of poisons left behind by UNSCOM inspectors in Baghdad will be made next Sunday.
Iraq-UN, Politics, 7/23/1999
Expected profits of Middle East, Mediterranean information technology companies $6.2 billion
A study released by the European Union commissariat in Cairo said it is expected that the volume of total payments for information technology systems in the Middle East, Mediterranean and North African markets will amount to more than $6.2 billion during the current year in comparison to $4.9 billion in 1998 and about $4 billion in 1997.
Regional, Economics, 7/23/1999
Yemeni president winds up Maghreb tour
President Ali Abdullah Saleh of Yemen left Rabat on Thursday, winding up a Maghreban tour that also took him to Libya, Algeria and Morocco.
Morocco-Yemen, Politics, 7/23/1999
Egyptian Olympic raises international deposit certificate
The Egyptian Olympic Group Financial Investment Co. has decided to float up certificates of international deposit in the London Stock Market on the Global Depositary Receipts (GDR) system with a value of $100 million.
Egypt, Business, 7/23/1999
Some 8,000 Iraqis died in June because of the embargo
Iraq announced on Thursday that some 8,000 citizens including 5,410 children died during June due to the UN embargo which has been imposed on the country since 1990.
Iraq-UN, Politics, 7/23/1999
MobiNil second quarter profits worth 10 million pounds
The volume of profits achieved by the Egyptian company for mobile phone services, MobiNil, amounted to 10 million pounds during the second quarter of this year.
Egypt, Business, 7/23/1999
Intensive Israeli bombardment against south Lebanon
Israeli occupation forces on Thursday continued their attacks against areas adjacent to the occupied part of south Lebanon. Lebanese security sources said the occupation artillery targeted on Thursday and Wednesday night the woods of Habboush and Kafer Roumman and al-Tuffah district heights and al-Rayhan hills. Several artillery shells were dropped on the said areas and the bombardment coincided with mopping-up operations, using machine guns.
Lebanon-Israel, Military, 7/23/1999
Greece accuses Ankara of creating tension
The European parliamentarians in Strasbourg on Thursday expressed their fears of destabilization in Europe if the Turkish authorities execute the leader of the Kurdistani Workers Party (PKK), Abdullah Ocalan, and called on Ankara to immediately give up this decision.
Turkey-Greece, Politics, 7/23/1999
Egyptian cultural weeks in Morocco
The Egyptian Cultural Center in Rabat has organized a cultural technical week between July 21 and 27 on the occasion of the 47th anniversary of the Egyptian July revolt.
Morocco-Egypt, Culture, 7/23/1999
Egypt: A newborn every 24 seconds
The chairman of the central bureau for statistics in Egypt, Eyhab Alawi, said on Wednesday in Cairo that Egypt witnesses the birth of one child every 24.5 seconds, representing a slight increase over the situation at the beginning of 1998.
Egypt, Culture, 7/23/1999
Morocco gets ecologic buses
The Moroccan state-owned bus company of Rabat received this week the first batch of buses operating with the environment-friendly Liquified Gas Petroleum (LGP) fuel.
Morocco, Environment, 7/23/1999
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Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak hailed the July 23 revolution in Egypt, which constituted a turning point whose impact had exceeded Egypt and the Arab homeland into numerous areas in the region.
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Egyptian Foreign Minister Amr Moussa received a message on Thursday from his Iranian counterpart, Kamal Kharazi, on the occasion of the 47th anniversary of July 23 revolution, in which Kharazi expressed desire for close cooperation with Egypt in all fields.
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The high council for investment for construction in Syria agreed to establish 23 new projects for Arab and Syrian investors, including the Kuwaiti United Company for Investment, at a value of 3 billion lira ($46 million), including projects that obtained licenses for activities in the fields of transportation, technical production, vegetable oil, producing and manufacturing food and cotton clothes.
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The Tunisian opposition Unionist Democratic Union decided to nominate Abderrahmane Tlili to enter the president elections scheduled for October, to become the third candidate, joining President Zien al-Abidin Bin Ali, the head of the ruling Constitutional Democratic Rally (RCD) -- which has controlled Tunisia since its independence -- and Mohamed Bel Haj Amor, head of the Popular Union Party (PUP), which is considered the largest opposition party in Tunisia.
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Gulf petroleum sources told ArabicNews.com that the current increase of petroleum prices in international markets has revived the hopes of the Gulf and petroleum-producing states of compensating for financial losses accumulated since the decrease of petroleum prices at the end of 1997.
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The Japanese government decided to offer Morocco $150 million annually in light of technical aid to support the five-year plan for social and economic development.
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Algeria bought 150,000 tonnes of wheat from Germany and the USA. Algerian sources said the wheat would be delivered in August and September. The sources added that the price of the wheat would vary between 117 and 118 dollars per ton, adding that the purchase came according to an international bid raised by Algeria on July 1, where French wheat was excluded which surprised French companies.
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Intellectual property laws will start to be enforced on computer programs at the beginning of August in Oman, according to the international agreements for protecting intellectual ownership in this area. All the pirated programs will be taken off of the Omani market, and the imports of imitation and copied programs from abroad will be banned.
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Egyptian First Undersecretary of the Ministry of Economy Ahmed Fouad Atta said that, "The volume of direct investments in Egypt, which provide 40,000 job opportunities, has reached L.E 13,517 billion in the period from January to June of current year."
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Morocco won a gold medal and a bronze one in the first day of the African junior athletics championships, currently held in Tunis. Malika Asahsah grabbed the gold medal of the women's 3000 m, covering the distance in 9:15.11. Her countryman Yahia Benrabah won the bronze medal of the triple jump, making 14.72 m.
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The Syrian-Jordanian preliminary committees on Thursday in Amman, chaired by Syrian Minister of Economy and Foreign Trade Muhammad al-Imadi and Jordanian Minister of Trade and Industry Muhammad Asfour held a meeting in preparation for the meetings of the Syrian-Jordanian higher joint committee to be held under the chairmanship of Syrian Prime Minister Mahmoud al-Zou'bi and his Jordanian counterpart, Abdul Raouf al-Rawabdeh.
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US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for the Near East Ronald Neumann said yesterday before a US Congressional committee that the US will not undertake final lifting of sanctions on Libya until all UN Security Council resolutions are met, including cooperation with the trial of the two Libyan suspects in the 1988 explosion of a Pan Am jet over Lockerbie, Scotland. "We won't be able to assure ourselves that Libya is cooperating fully with the trial until after it is substantially under way," Neumann stated.
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