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Al-Shara meets with Beshara
Syria-Palestine, Politics, 4/21/2001

Syria benefits from the Israeli air strike
The Kuwaiti daily al-Anbaa said on Friday that the impressions prevailed by certain sides that the Israeli air strike against a Syrian position in Lebanon had undermined the dignity of the Syrian army, is a wrong impression.
Syria-Israel, Politics, 4/21/2001

Azmi Beshara heads for Damascus
Israeli press sources said on Friday that the Arab parliamentarian at the Israeli Knesset Azmi Beshara headed for Damascus in a visit to Syria.
Syria-Palestine, Politics, 4/21/2001

Al-Mahameed is a candidate for the Syrian diplomatic mission to Iraq
Syria-Iraq, Politics, 4/20/2001

Al-Assad receives a telephone call from Bush
Syria's President Bashar al-Assad on Thursday received a telephone call from the US President George Bush in which the US President expressed his appreciation for the high spirits President al-Assad enjoys, his concerns over the grave situation in the Middle East and the determination of the US to continue involving in work to deal with the situation and to use its influence until just and comprehensive peace is attained in the region. He called on Syria to practice most degrees of self- control.
Syria-USA, Politics, 4/20/2001

Khaddam confers with Asaad Abdul Rahman
The Syrian vice- President Abdul halim Khaddam on Thursday received member of the PLO executive committee, who is also responsible for the file of the Syrian- Palestinian relations Asaad Abdul Rahman.
Syria-Palestine, Politics, 4/20/2001

Al-Attasi forum asks official licensing
The spokesman for al-"Attasi Forum" Habib Issa told the Lebanese daily al-Safir on Thursday that his Forum asked for licensing from the ministry of social affairs and labor in Syria, as a first initiative considering that accepting the application is considered a positive sign.
Syria, Politics, 4/20/2001

Al-Shara confers with US under secretary of state
The Syrian Foreign minister Farouk al- Shara on Thursday in Damascus received the US under secretary of state for the Near East affairs Edward Walker.
Syria-USA, Politics, 4/20/2001

The Pope will pray in Quneitra for the sake of peace
Syria-Vatican, Politics, 4/20/2001

Al-Assad: Syria will not keep silence towards the continued Israeli aggression
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has announced that Syria, leadership and people will not stay " hand tightened " towards the continued Israeli aggression against the Arab nation." This was expressed during the meeting held on Wednesday afternoon in Damascus for the Baath Arab Socialist Party Regional Leadership.
Syria-Israel, Politics, 4/19/2001

Tlass confers with Turkish military delegation
The Syrian defense minister, deputy premier Lt. Gen. Mustafa Tlass on Wednesday in Damascus received the Turkish military delegation led by Lt. Gen. Rashad Tourgot, who is the chairman of the principles and planning commission at the Turkish army and members of the accompanying delegation.
Syria-Turkey, Politics, 4/19/2001

Arafat to arrive in Damascus by the end of this month
The London- based al-Hayat daily said in its today's issue that the chairman of the Palestinian Authority Yasser Arafat will visit Damascus in the last week of this month in a first official visit since the Oslo agreement in 1993.
Palestine-Syria, Politics, 4/19/2001

Syrians in the Golan celebrate Evacuation Day
Hundreds of Syrian citizens on Tuesday went to Ein al-Tineh position to take part with the people of the Golan in their celebration on the occasion of the Evacuation Day on April 17.
Syria-Israel, Politics, 4/18/2001

Al-Assad receives telephone calls from Annan, Lahoud, King Abdullah, Saudi crown prince
Al-Assad: it will not be possible to reach peace through using vague idioms and that it is strange to describe the acts of resistance as an aggression while a flagrant Israeli aggression to be described as mere escalation.
Syria-Regional, Politics, 4/18/2001

Syria: Civil society committee announces a social contract
The Constituent commission of the civil society committees in Syria has issued its second document under the title " a national social contract in Syria," including what it considered the " national principles on the ground of which reforms are to be based."
Syria, Politics, 4/18/2001

Muslim brothers group denounces Israeli aggression against Syrian forces
Syria, Politics, 4/18/2001

Jibril set his conditions to meet with Arafat
The secretary general of the People's Front for the Liberation of Palestine -general command- Ahmad Jibril has asked the chairman of the Palestinian Authority Yasser Arafat to answer questions pertaining to the fate of the Palestinian Intifada and commitment to the PLO charter before meeting with him.
Palestine-Syria, Politics, 4/18/2001

Israel: calls to try al-Dahamesha over his message to President al-Assad
The Israeli daily Maareve said on Tuesday that Israeli ministers and members in the Knesset called on the legal advisor of the Israeli government Elakime Robinshtine to bring the parliamentarian Abdul Malik al-Dahamesha ( the united Arab list) before the court after he had sent a cable of condolences to the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad over the killing of Syrian soldiers in the attack against Syrian positions in Lebanon.
Syria-Israel, Politics, 4/18/2001

Al-Shara concludes a fruitful visit to Russia
The Syrian foreign minister Farouk al-Shara and members of the accompanying delegation returned back on Tuesday evening to Damascus following an official visit to Moscow which lasted for two days in which he conveyed a message from President Bashar al-Assad to the Russian President Vladimir Putin concerning bilateral relations and developments in the region.
Syria-Russia, Politics, 4/18/2001

Jordan seeks importing drinking water from Syria
Jordan is reportedly trying to obtain drinking water from Syria to honor growing needs in next summer season
Jordan-Syria, Economics, 4/18/2001

Al-Shara: Israel made a great mistake by its aggression and will pay the price
the Syrian FM said "Israel is not satisfied with killing and displacing children, and destroying their homes, but it works to expand the range of the military confrontation, and disturb the stability and security of the region, and Israel will be held responsible for all the dangerous consequences."
Syria-Israel, Politics, 4/17/2001

Syrian president issues law on founding private, joint share-holding, banking secrecy
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has issued Law no, 28 for the year 2001 lately approved by the People's Assembly ( PA) in its session held on March 29.
Syria, Economics, 4/17/2001

Palestinian delegations resume visits to Syria
Palestine-Syria, Politics, 4/17/2001

On the Israeli strikes against the Syrian position
In an analysis made on Monday, the Gulf News Agency said that the Israeli prime Minister Ariel Sharon has responded to the message sent to him to test the project of the military act he proposed before he assumed power to settle the situation, noting that Sharon has once again returned the region to the cycle of "breaking the will" and this was made in the military aggression carried out by Israel against the Syrian forces in Lebanon.
Syria-Israel, Politics, 4/17/2001

Peres and the Israeli raid on the Syrian position
The Monte Carlo radio correspondent in occupied Jerusalem said that the Israeli foreign minister Shemon Peres, who opposed the raids against the Syrian positions in Lebanon contacted the US administration and explained the details of the operation and justified reasons behind launching it.
Syria-Israel, Politics, 4/17/2001

King Mohammed renews solidarity with Syria to end barbarous aggression
Morocco's King Mohammed VI has renewed "firm solidarity" with Syria to put an end to "barbarous" aggression against the region.
Morocco-Syria, Politics, 4/17/2001

A Syrian - Moroccan initiative on Iraq
Well-informed Moroccan sources told the London- based al-Wasat magazine issued on Monday that the main results of the visit held by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to Morocco at the Arab Level, represented in an approaching, jointly launched, Syrian- Moroccan initiative aiming at restoring back Iraqi- Arab relations to what they had been before the second Gulf war and based on debates that took place at the recent Amman's summit.
Morocco-Syria, Politics, 4/17/2001

Israel bombs a Syrian radar station in Lebanon
A Syrian official source said today ( Monday) the following: At 12.20 p.m. Today, April 16, 2001, Israeli air formations violated the Lebanese airspace and bombed one of our positions in the Lebanese territories. Our defense forces intercepted the raiding Israeli planes.
Syria-Israel, Politics, 4/16/2001

Al-Shara in Moscow today
Syria-Russia, Politics, 4/16/2001

Syria refuses an American request concerning Iraq
The United Arab Emirates UAE daily al-Khaleij issued on Sunday said that a Syrian source stressed to it that Syria had refused a request proposed by the American administration calling on Damascus to join what is called " smart sanctions" Washington had decided to impose on Iraq.
Syria-Iraq, Politics, 4/16/2001

Qaddoumi: Syrian- Palestinian relations are improving
The chairman of the PLO political department Farouk al-Qaddoumi has stressed that Syrian- Palestinian relations have attained strides forward to the better.
Palestine-Syria, Politics, 4/16/2001

On the Syrian presence in Lebanon
The Qatari daily al-Watan has quoted a Syrian official it described as well-informed that the current heated debate in Lebanon relating to the Syrian military presence concerns Syria only to the extent it might affect the firmly established relations between the " leaderships of the two sisterly countries."
Syria-Lebanon, Politics, 4/16/2001

Christian communities in Syria celebrate the Easter
The Christian communities in Syria on Sunday celebrated the Easter ( the day of Jesus Christ Resurrection ) and prayers and masses were held and sermons were delivered at the country's churches.
Syria, Religion, 4/16/2001


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