Arabic News Weekly Edition for Egypt, 11/6/2000
Weekly Edition, Egypt - Week of November 6, 2000
- Report to Mubarak on Arab summit resolutions
Arab Summit Chairman President Hosni Mubarak will receive a detailed report this week from Foreign Minister Amr Moussa and Secretary-General of Arab League (AL) Esmat Abdul Maguid. The report deals with the results of follow-up committee concerning the carrying out of the latest Arab League resolutions. Egypt-Regional, Politics, 11/11/2000 - Prime minister delineates future image of Egypt
Ebeid said Egypt managed to cut down foreign debt by 700 million dollar and minimized the gap between exports and imports by 2 billion dollar during the past nine months compared to the corresponding period last year. Egypt, Politics, 11/11/2000 - Egypt seeks to make Islamic summit success
Egypt's Foreign Minister Amr Moussa announced that Egypt seek for the success of the Islamic summit in supporting the Palestinian cause but we hope that it would be a subjective success rather than a phoney one. Egypt-Qatar, Politics, 11/11/2000 - Abdel-Rahman al-Sharqawi: an innovative poet, critic, novelist and intellectual
Abdel-Rahman AL-Sharqawi was a leading multi-talented intellectual. During the late forties, he was one of the leading pioneers of the innovative movement in Arabic poetry, as well as a major exponent of the social realistic trend in literary criticism. In poetry, he was a pioneer of a new trend of Arabic poetry. He also introduced a totally new social moral, ideological and critical approach to biographies of major Islamic figures. Egypt, People, 11/11/2000 - Ibrahim Pasha (1798-1848)
Ibrahim Pasha (1798-1848), the oldest son of Muhammad Ali, he was the victory of Egypt the commander of the Egyptian army in the wars of independence. Egypt, People, 11/11/2000 - Mubarak says selection of names by the NDP in elections is wrong approach
In statements to the reports, the President denied any shortcomings in the parties' performance in Egypt because some NDP members, who won the parliamentary elections as indpendents, rejoined the winning NDP list. Such independents are members in the ruling party firstplace and they were not fired, President Mubarak said. Egypt, Politics, 11/10/2000 - Mubarak - Arafat talks Egypt-Palestine, Politics, 11/9/2000
- Egypt denounces Israeli aggression on Palestinians
Egypt has strongly denounced incessant Israeli attacks on the unarmed Palestinian people, expressing hope that the Palestinian people with all peace-loving nations would be able to celebrate in Bethlehem and other Palestinian towns the establishment of an independent Palestinian state on its soil soon. Egypt-Palestine, Politics, 11/9/2000 - Egypt continues reform march under Mubarak's reign
Asked to comment on the parliamentary experiment in Egypt following the present elections, Ebeid said that the future picture will surely improve greatly and success will be on the side of those who are among the people, feel their feelings and express their needs. Egypt, Politics, 11/9/2000 - Remains of the missing pharaoh may be discovered near Abydos
German archaeologists, digging at an ancient burial ground in southern Egypt, are within weeks of discovering whether the desert site contains the remains of a missing pharaoh, excavation campaign head said on Monday. Egypt, History, 11/9/2000 - Cabinet discusses five reports on results of elections first, second phases
Voters head today for polling stations in 8 governorates to elect 160 new People's Assembly members in the third phase of elections out of 1325 candidates belonging to various parties and independents. Egypt, Politics, 11/8/2000 - Media activities of religions, sectarian or partisan nature not allowed Egypt, Economics, 11/8/2000
- Israel's foreign minister cancels visit to Egypt Egypt-Israel, Politics, 11/8/2000
- Parliamentary elections, source of pride to President Mubarak
Egypt's Prime Minister Atef Ebeid said parliamentary elections, now underway in Egypt, are a source of pride to President Mubarak who has ushered in an unprecedented atmosphere of freedom. Egypt, Politics, 11/7/2000 - Democracy and freedom, most important pillars of Mubarak's era
These organizations said that the choice of democracy and freedom is the most important cornerstone of Mubarak's era. They further added that President Mubarak's support of democratic practice was the primary motive behind the high turn out of voters, thus reflecting mutual trust between the people and the leader. Egypt, Politics, 11/7/2000 - Arab rights can be restored through steadfastness and pressuring Israel
Osama AL Baz, the Political Advisor to the President said war cannot restore rights to the Palestinian people adding that this can be rather achieved through steadfastness in the face of Israel and pressuring it, indicating that the myth of Israeli military superiority has come to an end with the end of October war. Egypt, Politics, 11/7/2000 - First Lady Mubarak stresses keenness on health services to children
Head of the National Council for Childhood and Motherhood, First Lady Suzanne Mubarak underlined that the state, the private sector and all the civil society groups should cooperate in order to promote social development. Egypt, Culture, 11/7/2000 - Egypt stresses collective responsibility in peacekeeping forces
Egypt's Permanent Delegate to the UN Ahmed Abul Gheit said participation in international peacekeeping forces is collective responsibility to be shouldered by the major west countries on equal footing with many of the developing states. Egypt, Politics, 11/7/2000 - Egypt serious in luring foreign Investment
Regional Manager of Japan Bank for International Cooperaton Mmogi Yama said the Egyptian government is serious in luring foreign investments in a way that serves the country's ambitions projects. Egypt-Japan, Economics, 11/7/2000 - Egyptian women can get passports Egypt, Culture, 11/6/2000
- Mubarak meets with al-Sahaf
The Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak on Sunday in Cairo received Iraq's foreign minister Muhammad Saeed al-Sahaf who handed him a message from the Iraqi leadership. Egypt-Iraq, Politics, 11/6/2000 - Moussa stresses Israeli troops pullout
Egypt's Foreign Minister Amr Moussa said that the Israeli withdrawal from Palestinian lands will help pacify the situation and re-build the peace process in a more credible way. Egypt-Palestine, Politics, 11/6/2000 - Peace, not a permanent one-sided commitment
A senior Egyptian official has said that Egypt deems peace a strategic option but not a one-sided commitment "for ever". "There should be pursuit of a fair and comprehensive peace," Osama El-Baz, President Hosni Mubarak's political advisor, told Egyptian TV late Saturday. Egypt, Politics, 11/6/2000 - Current elections mirrors freedom under Mubarak Egypt, Politics, 11/6/2000
- Egypt strikes exceptional diplomatic triumph at UN
Together with the Arab, Islamic and the Non-Aligned group at the UN, Egypt succeeded in garnering unprecedented international support behind its draft resolution on the elimination of nuclear weapons in the Middle East. Egypt, Politics, 11/6/2000 - Egyptian chambers of commerce boycott Israel
The chairman of the federation of the Egyptian chambers of commerce Khaled Abu Ismael has announced that all chambers of commerce in the Egyptian provinces have boycotted Israel and refused any relation with it. Egypt-Israel, Economics, 11/6/2000 - A new plan to develop local markets
Egypt's Prime Minister Atef Ebeid Sunday urged business organizations, chambers of commerce and investment associations to meet at least once every year to look into their problems and come up with the best solutions. Egypt, Economics, 11/6/2000