Arabic News Daily Page for 2/22/2003
Weekend Edition - Saturday, February 22, 2003
- Jordanian king denies neglecting political development
The Jordanian King has met with a group of university students representing Amman's al-Ahleyah University and talked to them about various local and Arab political and economic issues. He denied neglecting political development in the country and called for uniting the parties. Jordan, Politics, 2/22/2003 - Kuwait, Qatar refuse commitment over their lands not to be used militarily
The delegation representing the Non- Aligned Movement NAL, member states which held yesterday in Malaysia preliminary discussions in preparations for today's meeting of its foreign ministers and the summit to be held on February 24 and 25, attended by 60 leaders, failed to agree on the content of a draft statement condemning the aggression against Iraq. This resolution is proposed by the hosting country and the Arab states, After Singapore and Chile expressed their rejection for the matter. Iraq-Regional, Politics, 2/22/2003 - Opposition official: the demonstrator against war on Iraq are 'naive'
The chairman of the local government in al-Suleimaneyah to the north of Iraq, Barham Saleh, said yesterday that there is a "strong moral case" to launch a war against Saddam Hussein's regime in order to "end decades of total extermination and oppression against the Iraqi people." He described the moves of protests against the American threats as "naive." Bahrain, Politics, 2/22/2003 - European tourists to Tunisia declined; Inter-Arab tourism up
Official statistics issued yesterday revealed a decline in the number of German tourists who visited Tunisia by 65 % to 350,000 tourists in 2002. Tunisia, Economics, 2/22/2003 - Canada withdraws its non- basic diplomats from the Middle East
Canada said yesterday it had pulled out its non- basic diplomats from Israel, the West Bank, Jordan and Syria and recommended the Canadians not to travel to these three countries nor to the occupied Palestinian territories. Regional-Canada, Politics, 2/22/2003