Arabic News Daily Page for 5/22/2001
Daily Edition - Tuesday, May 22, 2001
- Over one billion persons live in precarious conditions, Annan
UN Secretary General Kofi Annan said some 1.2 billion persons, i.e. 1/5 of the world population, are living in unthinkable conditions of suffering and poverty. Regional, Politics, 5/22/2001 - UN conference adopts action plan to help world's least developed countries
Nearly 200 governments participating in a just-concluded United Nations conference in Brussels have committed themselves to fighting poverty in the world's poorest countries while improving the lives of the 600 million people there. Regional, Politics, 5/22/2001 - Arab-African ministerial conference holds first plenary session
The conference of Arab and African finance ministers --convening in Marrakesh May 21-23 to prepare for the World Child Summit, due next September 19-21 at the United Nations headquarters in New York-held a first plenary session Monday afternoon. Regional, Politics, 5/22/2001 - Speaker of Portuguese Parliament in Morocco Thursday
Speaker of the Portuguese parliament, Almeda Santos, pays an official visit to Morocco May 24-27, at the invitation of speaker of the House of representatives (lower house of the Moroccan parliament), Abdelouahed Radi. Morocco-Portugal, Politics, 5/22/2001 - President of Mauritius island calls for world mobilization against AIDS
President of Mauritius Island, Cassam Uteem, on Monday called on UN member states to fight aids in Africa and to set up an anti-aids fund. Regional, Health, 5/22/2001 - Sudanese efforts to fill food gap Sudan, Agriculture, 5/22/2001