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Canada's Deputy FM Lavertu Gaetan on regional issues while visiting Syria
He outlined that in the absence of UN authorization against Iraq "we decided not to take part in the war against Iraq."
Syria-Canada, Politics, 5/24/2003

Al-Shara contacts on developments, lifting Iraq's sanctions
Syria's foreign minister Farouk al-Shara yesterday received a telephone call from his Spanish counterpart Ana Maria Palacio during which talks dealt with the UN resolution 1483 which was adopted by the UN Security Council on Thursday on the Iraqi issue and lifting Iraq's sanctions and the importance of preserving Iraq's unity and territorial integrity.
Syria-Regional, Politics, 5/24/2003

Syria approved UN security council resolution on lifting Iraq sanctions
Syria's voting in favor of the resolution doesn't mean at all a change in its position that has opposed the war which Syria has considered as illegal
Syria-Iraq, Politics, 5/24/2003

Al-Shara gets a phone call from Straw
Syria-UK, Politics, 5/24/2003

EU- Syrian banking cooperation Miro meeting
Syrian Prime Minister Mohammed Mustafa Miro received in Damascus on Thursday Deputy Chairman of the EU Investment Bank Council, Fontaine and an accompanying delegation.
Syria-European Union, Economics, 5/24/2003

Al-Thawra: Syria cancels military training in schools
Syria, Education, 5/23/2003

Al-Shara confers with Canadian deputy FM
Syria-Canada, Politics, 5/23/2003

Relations between Syria, Kuwait are good, minister
Kuwait-Syria, Politics, 5/23/2003

New Syrian TV station open in the north
Syria's Information Minister Adnan Omran opened on Wednesday a radio and TV station in the Raqqa governorate.
Syria, Politics, 5/23/2003

Syria did not take part in the UN voting because of time limit
The assistant for Syria's representative at the UN Security Council Faisal Miqdad said yesterday that his country did not take part in the voting session on the US resolution concerning the post war on Iraq because of the short time available to study it.
Syria-Iraq, Politics, 5/23/2003

Syria Ayobian Era highlighted in a lecture
Teacher of History and Islamic Arts, Marian Barricand, delivered at the Syrian Arab Culture Center in Paris a lecture about schools and palaces during the Ayobian era in Syria and focusing on Damascus as the capital of the Islamic culture at that era.
Syria, History, 5/23/2003

Italian book highlights Syria's culture
Syria, Local, 5/23/2003

Al-Shara holds telephone talks with Ivanov
Syria-Russia, Politics, 5/22/2003

New batch of Syrian aid for Iraq
Syria-Iraq, Local, 5/22/2003

Jibril: resistance escalate despite offices closure
Jibril added "I do not think that this ( Palestinian) people who during the past 24 hours carried several operations had received instructions from Damascus or Beirut or from anywhere else É resistance has become a popular phenomenon." In a statement to press, Jibril said that "the Palestinian question is much larger than a group of offices opened here or there," noting that "rather, the question is that a crime was committed against the Palestinian people since 50 years and 4 million Palestinians are in Diaspora."
Palestine-Syria, Politics, 5/21/2003

EIB loans Syria 50 million for Tartous port
The investment is part of the efforts to modernize and develop Syria's ports, as the bulk of the country's foreign trade is sea borne. Tartous together with Latakia, are the country's two major commercial ports. Tartous serves mainly central and southern parts of Syria, including the capital Damascus. Its port is specialised in certain types of general, roll-on/roll-off and solid bulk cargo. The construction of a new passenger terminal will contribute to the expansion of the tourism industry in the vicinity of Tartous.
Syria-European Union, Economics, 5/21/2003

Al-Assad meets with Danish FM
Syria's President Bashar al-Assad received in Damascus on Monday Denmark's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Per Stig Moller, and an accompanying delegation.
Syria-Denmark, Politics, 5/20/2003

Danish FM: Syria is a central player in regional issues
Al-Shara continued that the other point relates to the importance of achieving peace between the two sides. He said for many times the Palestinians stopped their operations on the hope the Israeli side will start the implementation of the Roadmap, known previously as "Mitchell plan," however, Israel never stopped its military acts against the Palestinians in acts of incursions, detention and killings.
Syria-Denmark, Politics, 5/20/2003

Syrian Republic Mufti Israel decision to permit settlers into al-Aqsa Mosque
Syria-Palestine, Politics, 5/20/2003

On Syrian Prime minister's visit to Sudan Damascus
Syria's Prime Minister Mohammed Mustafa Miro returned home on Sunday wrapping up a four- day official visit to Sudan during which he headed the Syrian delegation to the Syrian-Sudanese Higher Committee's 3rd session.
Sudan-Syria, Politics, 5/20/2003

A border crossing opened between Iraq and Syria for trade
One member of the former Iraqi opposition in exile Mashaan al-Jabbouri and the leaders of the Iraqi al-Watan ( homeland) party yesterday opened one border crossing between Syria and Iraq for "trade and commodity."
Iraq-Syria, Politics, 5/20/2003

Al-Bashir meets with Syrian premier
Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir received in Khartoum on Sunday Prime Minister Mohammed Mustafa Miro and an accompanying delegation.
Sudan-Syria, Politics, 5/19/2003

Al-Fahoum: Palestinian groups freeze media activity to avoid American pressure on Syria
Former chairman of the Palestinian national council, Khaled al-Fahoum, stressed that the Palestinian groups "voluntarily" froze media activities, their only activity in Damascus, because of their assessment of the American pressure on Syria.
Syria-Palestine, Politics, 5/19/2003

A mediation between Syria and the Lebanese opposition
Former Lebanese foreign minister Fouad Butrous has stated he is playing a mediating role between Syria and the Lebanese Christian opposition represented in "Qurnet Shahwan" in order to bring view points together away from limelight.
Lebanon-Syria, Politics, 5/19/2003

Al-Shara confers with French management experts delegation
Syria-France, Local, 5/19/2003

Syrian- Egyptian economic cooperation
Egypt-Syria, Economics, 5/19/2003

Aleppo governor meets with Turkish delegation
Aleppo Governor, Osama Adi, received on Saturday a delegation of Turkish University of Gaziantep chaired by Hussein Filiz, Chairman of the University
Syria-Turkey, Politics, 5/19/2003


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