Arabic News Weekly Edition for Egypt, 12/22/2003
Weekly Edition, Egypt - Week of December 22, 2003
- Kuwaiti oil to be refined in Egypt
A Kuwaiti oil experts delegation is due in Cairo during the second half of January 2004 for talks with their counterparts in Egypt on refining Kuwaiti oil in Egyptian refineries. Egypt-Kuwait, Economics, 12/27/2003 - Kiftaro meets with Islamic- Christian delegation of Egypt Syria-Egypt, Religion, 12/27/2003
- Shehab: Egyptian satellite for scientific research to be launched next October
Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research Moufid Shehab said that Egypt will launch the first Satellite for scientific purposes "Egypt Sat 1" next October in cooperation with Ukraine. Egypt, Science, 12/26/2003 - Egyptian Christian clergy deplores Israel practices against Palestinians
Chairman of the Bishopric Church in Egypt, Muneer Hanna Anees, denounced the Israeli aggressive and "inhuman practices against the Palestinian people," stressing that these practices contradict international law, human values, and religious doctrine. Egypt-Palestine, Politics, 12/26/2003 - Project for repairing cemetery of Amenhotep III in Luxor Egypt, Local, 12/26/2003
- $ 170 m for pharmaceutical industries in South Valley
The General Authority for Investment and Free Zones (GAFI) has approved six new investment project worth $170 million in caital. Egypt, Economics, 12/26/2003 - Demonstration in Cairo calling for political reform
Some 100 members of the leaderships of the Egyptian opposition parties and civil society organizations gathered in al-Tahrir square in Cairo demanding the introduction of comprehensive political reforms. Egypt, Politics, 12/25/2003 - Mubarak, al-Assad meeting in Sharm esh Sheikh
Syria's President Bashar al-Assad and Egyptian counterpart Hosni Mubarak held a bilateral meeting in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, on Wednesday attended by high level officials on both sides. Egypt-Syria, Politics, 12/25/2003 - Egyptian human rights organizations condemns Israeli massacre in Rafah
The Cairo-based Arab Human Rights Organization strongly condemned Israel's latest massacre in the Gaza refugee camp of Rafah, in which dozens of Palestinians were killed and wounded by Israeli soldiers, describing the carnage as a "war crime." Egypt-Israel, Politics, 12/25/2003 - Ebeid: Mubarak-Assad Summit very important Egypt-Syria, Politics, 12/24/2003
- Syrian- Egyptian premiers chair meeting for businessmen
Syria's Prime Minister Naji Otari and his Egyptian counterpart, Atef Obeid chaired in Damascus on Tuesday the meeting of the Syrian-Egyptian businessmen. Syria-Egypt, Politics, 12/24/2003 - Khatami hopes to end oddity with Egypt
the Egyptian weekly al-Musawar announced on Wednesday that normalization of relations between Cairo and Tehran, and Mubarak's meeting at Tehran's invitation, is linked to removing the name and picture of Khaled Islambuli who killed the former Egyptian President Anwar al- Sadat in 1981 in one of the Iranian capital streets. Egypt-Iran, Politics, 12/24/2003 - Egypt to set up first solar power station in Mideast, Africa
Egypt at the beginning of 2004 will set up the first solar power station in Mideast and Africa. Egypt, Economics, 12/24/2003 - Syrian - Egyptian committee statements
Otari, speaking at the start of the Syrian-Egyptian Higher Committee in presence of both states' delegations, added that the Arab states, under the absence of the international resolution and under the logic of force, have become targeted under pretexts of terrorism or under the claim of possession and development of mass destruction weapons. Such false pretexts are taken as justification to intervene Syria-Egypt, Politics, 12/23/2003 - Palestine official, groups denounce attack on Egypt's foreign minister at al-Aqsa mosque
The Egyptian foreign minister Ahmed Maher has described the incident he was exposed to during his visit to al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem as "simple and of inconsequential." Palestine-Egypt, Politics, 12/23/2003 - Egyptian optimism following Sharon 's meeting, occupation forces continue invasion
Two Israelis were killed in an ambush implanted by Palestinian fighters near Kesovim settlement in the downtown of Gaza. A third was wounded in Hebron, while 12 Palestinians were wounded in Jenin, Nablus and Khan Younis by the occupation army which detained 15 Palestinians in the West Bank. Egypt-Israel, Politics, 12/23/2003 - Al-Assad confers with Egyptian FM Syria-Egypt, Politics, 12/23/2003