Arabic News Weekly Edition for Egypt, 12/13/2004
Weekly Edition, Egypt - Week of December 13, 2004
- Government to declare realistic policies to support low-income brackets
Egypt's Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif will deliver tomorrow the first government's policy statement since he assumed office a few months ago. Egypt, Economics, 12/18/2004 - Kuwaiti papers welcome Mrs. Mubarak's visit
He referred to the two pilot projects she had adopted, the Reading for All and the Family Library. Egypt-Kuwait, Culture, 12/18/2004 - Baz: Palestinian struggle should continue based on international law
Osama El-Baz, the Presidential Political Adviser, said that the Palestinians are a struggling people and they will not surrender to the oppression and violence practiced by the Israeli occupation forces against them. Egypt-Palestine, Politics, 12/18/2004 - Islamic-Christian conference rejects religious discrimination
The Islamic-Christian conference wrapped up Friday in Ain Al Sukhna with a call of rejecting distinction between the Egyptian people on the basis of race or religion. Egypt, Religion, 12/18/2004 - Senegalese president arrives in Cairo Egypt-Senegal, Politics, 12/18/2004
- Million German tourists to visit Hurghada next year Egypt-Germany, Economics, 12/18/2004
- Khedr, Abul Naga probe boosting Egyptian- Ethiopian relations Egypt-Ethiopia, Economics, 12/18/2004
- Attorney general in Egypt denies Rev. wife embracing Islam
The attorney general in Egypt advisor Maher Abdul Wahid denied that the wife of one Reverend, had embraced Islam. The case which provoked Christian objections in Egypt recently. Egypt, Local, 12/17/2004 - Tantawi :Islam prohibits attacks on innocent people
The Grand Imam of Al-Azhar Sheikh Mohamed Sayed Tantawi Tuesday denied foreign pressures while setting down curricula offered by the institutions of the world's highest religious Sunni authority. Egypt-Regional, Religion, 12/16/2004 - Mubarak receives Prince Walid Bin Talal Egypt-Saudi Arabia, Business, 12/16/2004
- Egypt signs Qualified Industrial Zones agreement with Israel, the USA
Egypt,US and Israel sign today the Qualified Industrial Zones (QIZ) protocol. Egypt's Foreign Trade and Industry Minister Rasheed Mohammed Rasheed will sign for Egypt, US Trade Representative Robert Zoellick for US and Israeli Deputy Premier Ehud Olmert for Israel. Egypt-USA, Economics, 12/15/2004 - Jerusalem Post: Israeli proposal for building a separation wall along frontiers with Egypt
The Israeli "Jerusalem Post" newspaper yesterday quoted the Deputy Israeli Interior Minister as saying he sent to Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Chief of Staff Moshe Yaalon few months ago a suggestion for building a separation wall along frontiers with Egypt. Egypt-Israel, Politics, 12/14/2004 - Cairo: a demonstration against extension, inheritance of authority
Some 1000 Egyptian activists in Cairo yesterday demonstrated in protest of nominating the Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak for a new term of office in 2005 and nominating his son Jamal. This was expressed in the first and largest protest of its kind since Mubarak assumed presidency in 1981. Egypt, Politics, 12/13/2004 - Mubarak, Bashir discussed efforts to solve Darfur issue
The spokesman for the Egyptian presidency Majid Abdul Fattah announced that the Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak held yesterday in Cairo talks on Darfur with his Sudanese counterpart Omar Hassan al-Bashir who paid a short visit to Egypt. After al-Bashir arrived in Cairo yesterday morning he left it immediately following his meeting with Mubarak. Egypt-Sudan, Politics, 12/13/2004 - Mrs. Mubarak attends celebration on World Volunteering Day
Egypt's First Lady Suzanne Mubarak said "I was keen to take part in the celebrations of the World Volunteering Day out of belief in the voluntary work and in the specialty of the celebration that came upon an initiative of Egyptian youth who are willing to express love and affiliation by taking serious actions and proposing enlightened initiatives. Egypt, Culture, 12/13/2004 - Egypt, Turkey study navigation route, natural gas exports
Egypt and Turkey discussed on Sunday a proposal to launch a navigation route between Egyptian and Turkish ports and the latest developments in the natural gas deal signed earlier this year by the two countries. Egypt-Turkey, Economics, 12/13/2004