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Egypt and Bahrain renew backing for Syria
Egypt and Qatar have renewed their full backing to Syria ' s stand and right to restoring back the whole of the Golan at a time when the secretary general of the Arab league AL. Ismat Abdul Miguid said the Arab foreign ministers will hold a meeting on the sideline of the Millennium summit in New York to discuss the possibility of finding out a permanent seat for the Arab states if the UN Security Council membership will be expanded.
Egypt-Qatar, Politics, 9/7/2000

Mubarak: Economy is doing fine
As for the coming elections, Mubarak said that he will review the final list of candidates of the ruling National Democratic Party (NDP) on Sunday. "The citizen is the one who is to bring his representative to the parliament so he should think twice before selection," Mubarak said.
Egypt, Politics, 9/7/2000

Mubarak, Ben-Issa underline support for Palestinian sovereignty over East Jerusalem
The two leaders underlined the necessity of maintaining Palestinian sovereignty over East Jerusalem and Holy Places stressing the need to maintain joint coordination at the Arab level with the aim of convening a successful Arab Summit that achieves interests of Arab nation.
Egypt-Bahrain, Politics, 9/7/2000

Jerusalem is a sensitive, complicated, serious issue
Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak has said that he told US President Bill Clinton, President Jacques Chirac of France and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak that the issue of Jerusalem is very sensitive, complicated and serious.
Egypt, Politics, 9/7/2000

Egypt makes no pressure on the Palestinians
Egypt's foreign minister Amr Moussa has stressed his country's stand concerning the file of Jerusalem is to reach a solution in the framework of international legitimacy resolutions. A position which backs the Palestinians proposals and stances to this effect.
Egypt-Palestine, Politics, 9/7/2000

Moussa delivers President Mubarak's address, UN-Millennium Summit
It is incumbent upon us at this historical juncture to lay down together joint intellectual bases for tackling the inputs of this new era with its horizons and aspirations.
Egypt, Politics, 9/7/2000

Najib Mahfouz: the embargo against Iraq is futile
The Egyptian renowned man of letter Najib Mahfouz has announced that the international embargo imposed on Iraq is " now futile and outdated."
Iraq-Egypt, Politics, 9/7/2000

Apparition of Virgin Mary
Assiut-based Saint Mark Church priests council issued statement on apparition of Virgin Mary over the Church steeples.
Egypt, Religion, 9/7/2000

Riadh Al Sonbati: Preserving the identity of Arabic music
Riyadh Al-sonbati is a prominent Egyptian composer and pioneer of Arabic music, who remained in the lime light for almost half a century. Al-Sonbati's talent was quite evident at an early stage of his life. At the age of 18, his intuitive propensity to music was discovered by his father, Mohammed Al-Sonbati, a popular singer and a driot lute player, who was widely admired by the local comunity of his home village of Sonbat in the Delta countryside.
Egypt, People, 9/7/2000

An urgent Arab summit to be held in November
Egypt, Politics, 9/6/2000

Mubarak, Bin Isa discuss bilateral relations, peace process
Egypt's President Mubarak yesterday held a session of talks in Alexandria with Sheikh Hamad Bin Isa Al-Khalifa, the Emir of Bahrain. Talks touched on ways of developing political and economic relations, which are developing between the two states in the regional and international areas. Developments of the peace process especially on the Palestinian track were also considered.
Egypt-Qatar, Politics, 9/6/2000

Egypt renders discussion on Millennium Summit UN draft successful
The unofficial deliberations to prepare the Millennium Summit draft communique ended yesterday under the UN General Assembly President and Foreign Minister of Namibia Theo-Ben Gurirab.
Regional-Egypt, Politics, 9/6/2000

Key Egyptian cleric urges Palestinian sovereignty over East Jerusalem
Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria has stressed the importance of the restoration of Palestinian sovereignty over the occupied Arab East Jerusalem as a precondition for just and comprehensive peace in the Middle East.
Egypt, Politics, 9/6/2000

IMF Forecasts a continuation of Egypt's economic growth
Egypt's economic growth is likely to continue while the country's inflation rate is expected to remain at the level of about 4 per cent, according to the latest report issued by the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
Egypt, Economics, 9/6/2000

Egypt's economy boom anew
Chief of the World Bank mission in Egypt Khaled Ekram said yesterday that all signs prove that the Egyptian economy is heading for a booming drive and the government has a clear-cut plan to raise rate of growth.
Egypt, Economics, 9/6/2000

Egypt calls for eliminating weapons of mass destruction in M.E.
"The speech covers means of facing poverty, ignorance, sickness and deteriorating development in the developed countries," said Moussa, in a statement before leaving Cairo for New York yesterday.
Egypt-Regional, Politics, 9/6/2000

Increasing volume of information industry
Egypt's Minister of Communications and Information Ahmed Nazif said a plan will be implemented to increase the value of information technology industry by the year 2002 via benefiting from the Indian expertise in this domain.
Egypt, Economics, 9/6/2000

Egyptian oil exports hit $ 2.5 billion, Gas export to rise
The Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries (OAPEC) said in its annual report that the Arab states in 1999 found 45 new oil fields including 19 in Egypt which topped them in the new discoveries.
Egypt, Economics, 9/6/2000

Horus military route
In spite of the divergent opinions of Egyptologists as regards the beginning of the military route or what is called " The Great Horus Route" illustrated in the battle relief of King Seti I in the columns court of the Karnak Temple, as having 12 fortresses and military compounds, yet they agree upon the route's real existence.
Egypt, History, 9/6/2000

Al Sayeda Zeinab Mosque, between originality and modernization
Of All the great metropolises of the world, Cairo is singled out with a special aroma deeply rooted in its civilization and human heritage.
Egypt, History, 9/6/2000

Emir of Bahrain offers condolences over Airbus victims
egypt-Bahrain, Politics, 9/5/2000

Egypt views constructive opposition parties as healthy, Urgent measures for reactivating Economy
He said the government welcomes the existence of a strong and constructive opposition. The strong opposition means the existence of a strong government which is capable of fulfilling aspirations and ambitions of citizens. All parties are working under one umbrella with the aim of maintaining interests of Egypt and its people.
Egypt, Politics, 9/5/2000

Sovereignty over Jerusalem Arab- Christian-Muslim affair
"The issue of sovereignty over Jerusalem is an Arab Christian-Islamic concern, and Egypt has specific ideas that it does not try to impose," only raises to Presidential Advisor Osama A1 Baz said.
Egypt-Palestine, Politics, 9/5/2000

UN Millennium Summit affirm for international cooperation
UN Secretary General Kofi Annan will present to the Summit an "extremely significant" report on the new world order and the future role of the international organizations, Moussa said.
Egypt, Politics, 9/5/2000

Egypt supports Somalia to regain its stability
Moussa stressed that there is no party willing to deal with warlords or mercenaries on the future of Somalia.
Somalia-Egypt, Politics, 9/5/2000

Jamal Abdul Nasser is of Yemeni origin
An Yemeni historian has stated that the late Egyptian President Jamal Abdul Naser descends from Yemeni origin.
Egypt, People, 9/5/2000

Egypt's mufti warns against paid-for fatwas
The mufti of Egypt, Nasr Farid Wasel, castigated the paid-for fatwas (religious opinion) obtained by telephone
Egypt, Religion, 9/5/2000

Mubarak receives Boutros Ghali
Egypt Ambassador to France Ali Maher, and the Dean of the Arab Diplomatic Corps in the French capital, attended the meeting.
Egypt, Politics, 9/4/2000

Egypt, keen on reaching just balanced solution
Egypt's President Mubarak returned home yesterday after a three-day successful visit to Paris during which he met with President Jacques Chirac and Prime Minister Lionel Jospin.
Egypt-Palestine, Politics, 9/4/2000

Ebeid meets with North Coast investors
Egypt' Prime Minister Atef Ebeid said the meeting takes place under a plan North Coast may be in the best shape and work all year round. He added that the successful completion of the infrastructure to provide more comfort to citizens, to benefit from investments made, realize a high degree of safety to owners of units and develop the North Coast to the international level.
Egypt, Economics, 9/4/2000

Iraqi activities in Egypt
The Secretary General of the Arab league ( AL) Ismat Abdul Miguid on Sunday in Cairo received Iraq's foreign minister Muhammad Saeed al-Sahaf.
Iraq-Egypt, Politics, 9/4/2000


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