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- Egypt's parliament, representing all categories and parties
Egypt's President Mubarak yesterday presided over two lengthy meetings by the NDP politburo and the second with the members of the NDP Secretariat General. Egypt, Politics, 9/21/2000 - Moroccan premier in Tunisia
Moroccan Prime Minister Abderrahmane Youssoufi flew to Tunisia this Thursday to co-chair with Tunisian peer, Mohamed Ghanouchi, the 8th session of the high joint commission. Tunisia, Politics, 9/21/2000 - Syria to crystallize a strategy for attracting investment
The London - based al-Hayat daily said in its Wednesday's issue that an economist has urged the Syrian government to crystallize a policy promoted by Syria as a regional center for exports. Syria, Economics, 9/21/2000 - Sudanese president ready to meet with Garang
The Sudanese President, on the other hand, met with the Sudanese President who was due to head on Wednesday for Nairobi to hold a round of negotiations with the rebellions forces today ( Thursday). Sudan, Politics, 9/21/2000 - Egypt:The nomination begin today for the parliamentary election
The first steps of the electoral operations began today to choose members of the new parliament when Egyptian interior minister General Habib El-Adely allowed receiving the nomination requests from the citizens in all governorates. Egypt, Politics, 9/21/2000 - Discussions between al-Shara, Arafat
Arafat made that speech at the inaugural session of the meetings and al-Shara's proposed to adopt this speech as a base for the final statement, but Arafat retreated under the pretext that his speech was only for the media. Syria, Politics, 9/21/2000 - A nearby ministerial reshuffle in Jordan
The speaker of the Jordanian parliament Abdul Hadi al-majali announced on Wednesday that the parliament had approved to start a dialogue with the government over the election law draft, while the Jordanian minister of information Taleb al-Refae talked about a nearby Cabinet reshuffle. Jordan, Politics, 9/21/2000 - Jordanian King confers with al-Riyadh district prince Jordan, Politics, 9/21/2000
- Established confidence between the Syrian and Jordanian leaderships
The Jordanian weekly al-Meithaq said in its recent issue that the telephone call President Bashar al-Assad made with the Jordanian King Abdullah upon his return back from his recent tour bears more than one meaning and has only one explanation, namely the confidence which has been growing between the two states since more than one year. Jordan, Politics, 9/21/2000 - El-Husseini accuses Israel of confiscating lands near Jerusalem Palestine, Politics, 9/21/2000
- Morocco moves to set up local investment committees to ease investments
Morocco is projecting to set up local investment committees at the level of prefectures and provinces to lift obstacles and facilitate the carrying out of investment projects. Morocco, Economics, 9/21/2000 - Accentuated debate between Moussa and Bin Ami
The tone of conversation was accentuated between Moussa and Ben-Ami when the Israeli official claimed that June 1967 war was in self-defense, that Jerusalem has always been the capital of the Jewish people. Moussa answered back by noting that such allegations are just historical fallacies. The 1967 war was an aggression. He urged Ben-Ami to engage in discussions aiming at building peace, not talking about the past and going back to history. Egypt, Politics, 9/21/2000 - Sudan and the UN Security Council seat
Sudan, represented by its foreign minister Mustafa Othman Ismael, on Tuesday renewed its nomination for the non- permanent seat at the UN SecurityCouncil, showing its desire to play an active role in the UN for the period 2001- 2002. Sudan, Politics, 9/21/2000 - Arafat meets with Moratinos, US consul Palestine, Politics, 9/21/2000
- Syrian prime minister arrives in Bahrain
The Gulf News official agency reported on Wednesday that the Syrian prime minister Muhammad Mustafa Mero arrived in Bahrain in a visit aims at discussing the possibilities of bilateral cooperation. Bahrain, Politics, 9/21/2000 - Delaying Ghaddafi's visit to Jordan to next month
The Libyan President Moammar El-Ghaddafi will head to Amman on the beginning of coming month instead of the current week as was previously decided. Libya, Politics, 9/21/2000 - Spanish foreign minister hails King Mohammed' positive visit to Spain
Spanish foreign minister, Josep Pique, hailed as positive the official visit King Mohammed VI paid to Spain Sep. 18-20. The visit is a step forward in the development of a new model of relations between Rabat and Madrid, Pique told the Moroccan first TV channel RTM. Morocco, Politics, 9/21/2000 - Jordan: Demonstrations for unemployed university graduates
Jordan witnessed clashes and demonstrations by members of vocational unions as the anti riot police prevented the demonstrators from heading to the cabinet to protest for their demands. Jordan, Economics, 9/21/2000 - Moroccan official stresses economic reasons behind conflicts in mediterranean
Speaker of the Moroccan house of representatives, Abdelouahed Radi, said in Lisbon Friday risks of conflicts in the Mediterranean region are mainly economic. Morocco, Politics, 9/21/2000 - Some 69 Syrian students from the Golan arrived in Syria for study
Some 69 students from the occupied Golan heights arrived in Syria on Wednesday to study in the Syrian universities. Syria, Politics, 9/21/2000 - Illegal immigration web dismantled
A web specializing in smuggling people to Europe was dismantled recently by the police in Casablanca. Morocco, Judicial, 9/21/2000 - GCC ministers of culture meet in al-Riyadh
Ministers in charge of culture at the Gulf Co-operation Council GCC on Monday hold their 9th meeting at the general secretariat of the GCC in al-Riyadh. Gulf, Politics, 9/21/2000 - Torabi's party supports demonstrations but deplores destruction
The Sudanese public national conference party headed by Hasan El-Torabi spoke of support to the 'fair demands' of the demonstrators that took place in many cities of Sudan in the last days yet he rejected the sabotage and destruction of the people's properties that was due to these demonstrations. Sudan, Politics, 9/21/2000 - Yemeni president will visit Paris in October
Arab sources assured that the Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh will make a business visit to Paris on the coming month the 19th during which he will meet the French President Jacques Chirac. Yemen, Politics, 9/21/2000 - Somali president discusses developments in Makdishu with Gaddafi
Abdi Kasem Salad Hosni, the new Somali president reviewed in Libya with the Libyan president the latest developments in Somalia and means of establishing stability, restoring the infrastructure, means of enhancing the Somali - Libyan cooperation, some issues of joint concern and implementing the resolutions of Djibouti's conference during which the Somalia president was elected. Libya, Politics, 9/21/2000 - Moroccan associatios and parties denounce hosting an Israeli agricultural conference
A Moroccan Islamic party urged all the Moroccan organizations and fronts to protest to stop the visit that is to be paid today be a delegation of Israeli businessmen to Morocco and to work on canceling their decided visit's program to some Moroccan areas. Morocco, Politics, 9/21/2000 - Israeli businessmen are visiting Morocco today Morocco, Economics, 9/21/2000
- Concrete measures contemplated to promote textile sector
A set of concrete measures are being finalized to pull Morocco's textile sector out of its crisis, Mohamed Lahlou, chairman of the Moroccan textile and garments industry association (AMITH) announced. Morocco, Economics, 9/21/2000
Short Takes
- The secretary general of the Arab league AL Ismat Abdul Miguid has announced the Arab foreign ministers will convene a special meeting in Cairo on October 21 and 22 to discuss arrangements for convening an annual Arab summit. On September 4, the AL council adopted an appendix for the AL charter states to convene an Arab summit every one year in march at the AL headquarters. Then the AL chief said the AL member states have to ratify the appendix so as to adopt the first appendix added to the charter of the Al since its foundation in 1945.. Go
- Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Wednesday at the Damascus al-Shaab palace received the prince of al-Riyadh district in Saudi Arabia prince Salman Bin Abdul Aziz al-Saud and members of the accompanying delegation. The delegation is composed of the secretary general of the higher council for tourism prince Faisal Bin Salman and the prince of the city of al-Riyadh Dr. Abdul Aziz Bin Muhammad Ayaf al-Makram and the Saudi ambassador in Syria Baker Abdullah baker. Go
- Egypt's foreign minister Amr Mousa on Wednesday in Cairo discussed with the US ambassador to Egypt latest developments concerning the Middle East peace process. Following the meeting, the US ambassador said that his country will follow up its contacts with all sides concerned with the ME peace process in order to achieve a progress on all tracks. Go
- Saudi Arabia and Brazil on Wednesday in Brazilia signed a bilateral agreement to having access to the markets of commodity and services. The agreement was in the course of Saudi Arabia's attempt to join the World Trade Organization. Go
- The Arab group at the UNESCO insisted Wednesday that the success of the Middle East peace process depends on the fate of Al-Quds (Jerusalem) city. Go
- Morocco participates September 26 through October 5 in an international anti-illiteracy forum in Chad. Go
- The US ambassador in Damascus Rayan Crocker on Wednesday evening held a reception at his residence on the occasion of the 224th anniversary of his country's independence. Go