Arabic News Weekly Edition for Jordan, 12/6/1999
Weekly Edition, Jordan - Week of December 6, 1999
- Jordan ready to host Syrian-Israeli peace negotiations
A high-ranking Jordanian official has told the AFP that Jordan is ready, if it is asked, to host the peace negotiations between Syria and Israel after these are officially resumed in Washington next week. Jordan-Regional, Politics, 12/11/1999 - Jordanian airplanes will not work on New Years Jordan, Business, 12/11/1999
- Al-Rawabdeh hails Jordan's relations with France
Jordanian Prime Minister Abdul Raouf al-Rawabdeh hailed the level of French - Jordanian relations. Jordan-France, Politics, 12/9/1999 - Report: Jordanian divan chief visited Lebanon
A London-based paper said on Wednesday, quoting well-informed Jordanian sources, that the chairman of the Jordanian royal court, Abdul Karim al-Kabareiti, last Sunday paid a secret visit to Lebanon which lasted for two days Jordan-Lebanon, Politics, 12/9/1999 - Jordanian parliamentarians against Israeli participation in Amman's IPU conference
Parliamentarian Khalil Ateyah has called on the parliamentarians in Jordan to submit a collective resignation in case Israel's participation in the conference is confirmed. Jordan-Israel, Politics, 12/8/1999 - Jordan: Limited spread of Newcastle chicken disease
The Jordanian ministries of health and agriculture asserted that news reports which spoke about the spread of the "Newcastle disease in the poultry farms in Jordan is too much exaggerated, and the average of casualties from this disease is within its natural frame." Jordan, Agriculture, 12/8/1999 - Issuing a Jordanian verdict on land merchants in the occupied areas
A Jordanian court issued yesterday a one-year prison sentence against four Palestinians carrying Israeli citizenship for forging Jordanian seals and documents to forge transactions of land sales in Jerusalem near Al-Aqsa mosque to Israeli persons. Jordan-Israel, Politics, 12/8/1999 - Jordanian - French relations reviewed Jordan-France, Politics, 12/7/1999
- Jordanian king starts visit to China
Jordan's King Abdullah II arrived in Beijing on Monday for a three-day visit to China aimed at strengthening relations between the two countries. Jordan-China, Politics, 12/7/1999 - Jordanian Muslim Brothers confirm resignations over Hamas issue
One member of the shoura council of the Muslim Brothers group in Jordan has confirmed news published by the Jordanian weekly al-Majd last week that ten members of the council submitted their resignations from the council in protest of "loose attempts" made by the Muslim Brothers' leaders on the question of arresting and then expelling Hamas leaders from Jordan to Qatar. Jordan, Politics, 12/7/1999 - Israeli fears over deteriorated conditions with Jordan
Political sources at the Israeli Foreign Ministry have expressed their fears of the deterioration of the Israeli-Jordanian relations on the background of boycotts pursued by various Jordanian vocational trade unions, especially the journalists union and bar association, which both call for halting Jordan's normalization with Israel. Jordan-Israel, Politics, 12/7/1999 - Al-Rawabdeh: procedures against Hamas leaders are not against Palestinians or Hamas
Jordanian Prime Minister Abdul Raouf al-Rawabdeh said that the last Jordanian procedures against the leaders of the Hamas resistance movement in Jordan have nothing to do with the movement itself or with Palestine, but is about Jordanian citizens that should not have joined a non-Jordanian system in the Jordanian territories. Jordan, Politics, 12/7/1999 - Emergency plan in Jordan to confront water crisis
Jordanian Minister of Water and Irrigation Kamal Mahadin said yesterday that Jordan has begun preparing an emergency plan to confront the water crisis anticipated during the coming summer as a result of a lack of rains and the discouraging indicators regarding the current winter season. Jordan, Economics, 12/7/1999 - Jordanians protest against Israel's participation in charity Bazaar Jordan, Politics, 12/7/1999
- Israel buys more factories in Jordan Jordan-Israel, Business, 12/7/1999
- Jordanian king in South Korea after visiting Japan
King Abdullah II of Jordan has urged South Korea to send more tourists and increase investments in his country. Jordan-South Korea, Politics, 12/6/1999 - $400 million in Japanese aid to Jordan
Jordan said that Japan has offered it economic aid worth $400 million to help achieve Jordan's economical stability, as Jordan suffers from a shortage in the payment balance and a large external debt. Jordan-Japan, Economics, 12/6/1999 - Al-Rawabdeh stops receiving tribes backing government acts against Hamas
The Jordanian government on Sunday decided to stop receiving delegations of tribal delegations that back measures taken against the Hamas resistance movement following large-scale protests from Jordanian party and trade union activists, who have accused the government of perpetuating "tribal divisions and rising the hatred of the Jordanian people against the Islamic movements which oppose peace with Israel." Jordan, Politics, 12/6/1999 - Jordanian engineering unit destroys anti-personnel land mines
The Jordanian royal engineering unit on Sunday carried out the second stage of an operation to get rid of mines, during which some 8,000 anti-personnel land mines were destroyed. Jordan, Military, 12/6/1999