Arabic News Daily Page for 3/14/2003
Daily Edition - Friday, March 14, 2003
- New crisis threaten collapse of Sudanese peace talks
The current negotiations between the Sudanese government and the rebels (SPLA) of Sudan in Nairobi, Kenya is witnessing a crisis threatening its collapse. Sudan, Politics, 3/14/2003 - Moroccan-Spanish ties too strong to be affected by fleeting tensions, ambassador
Moroccan-Spanish relationships are strong enough to overcome fleeting tensions, Spanish Ambassador to Rabat, Fernando Arias Salgado, told Moroccan weekly in Spanish "La Manana." Morocco-Spain, Politics, 3/14/2003 - Al-Watan: Al-Ateyah: No foreign pressures behind the Gulf intention to develop curricula
The secretary general of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) has denied what was rumored on that there are sides which try to impose on the GCC member states certain changes in their curricula. He stressed that no attention should be paid to such statements. Gulf, Education, 3/14/2003 - Iraq: 3 more banned missiles, 7 warheads destroyed under UN oversight
United Nations arms inspectors supervised the destruction of three more banned Iraqi missiles and seven warheads today as they continued to scour food plants for possible evidence of biological or chemical weapons. Iraq-UN, Politics, 3/14/2003 - French industrialists keen on enhancing partnership with Morocco
Some 20 French industrialists, currently on a visit to the Northern city of Tangier, expressed the particular interest that French economic circles grant to investing in Morocco and to establishing partnership with Moroccan peers. Morocco-France, Economics, 3/14/2003 - New sahara-maghreb association set up
An association named "Sahara-Maghreb" was recently set up by several civil society militants and associations "to contribute to Maghreb construction and settle regional conflicts." Morocco-Maghreb, Politics, 3/14/2003 - UN withdraws all its observers from the Iraqi borders
The UN observer mission between Iraq and Kuwait announced it had withdrawn all its observers from the Iraqi side of the buffer zones between the two states in a precaution under the current circumstance. Kuwait-UN, Politics, 3/14/2003 - UN inspector killed in a car crash in Iraq
An Iraqi source said that one UN inspector was killed and another was wounded on Thursday after a truck collided with their car as they were returning back from an inspection mission. Iraq, Local, 3/14/2003 - Jordan uses Haifa port to transport its exports
The Jordanian minister of commerce and industry Salah al-Bashir announced yesterday that Jordan intends to increase the volume of its exports to the USA in case the Iraqi market is closed and that he will use the Israeli port of Haifa to transport its exports to the USA. Jordan, Economics, 3/14/2003