Arabic News Weekly Edition for Jordan, 8/4/2003
Weekly Edition, Jordan - Week of August 4, 2003
- 11 persons killed in explosion against the Jordanian embassy in Baghdad
Iraqi medical sources said that the number of victims of the explosion which targeted the Jordanian embassy yesterday morning increased to 11 and 57 injured. Jordan-Iraq, Politics, 8/8/2003 - Jordan refuses to link the attack to receiving Saddam's two daughters
Jordan has officially rejected linking the attack against its embassy in Iraq to the Kingdom's receiving of the two daughters of the toppled Iraqi President. Iraq-Jordan, Politics, 8/8/2003 - Some 27 Jordanian parliamentarians loom to vote no confidence for his government; Abu al-Ragheb: we are committed to Iraq
The Jordanian Prime minister Ali Abul Ragheb has stressed in the ministerial statement which he proposed yesterday to the new parliament to win confidence over his new government to "support and protect" the democratic march which started in Jordan in 1989. Jordan, Politics, 8/7/2003 - Islamists parliamentarians will vote no confidence in the Jordanian government
The chairman of the Islamic parliamentary bloc at the Jordanian parliament, Azzam al-Huneidi, has disclosed the intention of the parliamentarians of the "Islamic Action Front Party" to vote no confidence for the government of Ali Abul Ragheb which will present its ministerial statement to the Jordanian parliament today to win the confidence of the parliament. Jordan, Politics, 8/6/2003 - Kuwait- Jordanian oil deal
The Jordanian minister of energy and mineral resources Muhammad al-Bateynah, who is accompanying the Jordanian prime minister Ali Abul Ragheb in an official visit to Kuwait said that Jordan had agreed with Kuwait to be supplied with oil shares "at preferable price" following the suspension of oil supplies that used to arrive from Iraq. Jordan-Kuwait, Economics, 8/6/2003 - Arab al-Youm: Jordan ready to dispatch forces at the request of the Governing Council
The Jordanian minister of information said yesterday that Jordan is ready to take part in sending peace keeping forces to Iraq in case the appointed Iraqi governing council asks the American occupation authorities for that. Jordan-Iraq, Politics, 8/6/2003 - Maher, Muasher rule out return back of the two ambassadors to Israel
Egypt and Jordan announced yesterday that time is not proper for the return back of the Egyptian and Jordanian ambassadors to Israel. Egypt-Jordan, Politics, 8/6/2003 - Abul Ragheb discusses in Kuwait latest developments in the region
The Jordanian prime minister Ali Abul Ragheb discussed with his Kuwaiti counterpart yesterday ways of bilateral cooperation in the political, economic and energy fields. Jordan-Kuwait, Politics, 8/5/2003 - Haartez: Jordanian King: Besieging Arafat will make the Abbas mission complex
In a statement with the Israeli daily Haartez, the Jordanian King Abdullah II warned that the besiege of the Palestinian President Yasser Arafat at the headquarters of his leadership in Ramullah will complicate matters for the Palestinian prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas. Jordan-Palestine, Politics, 8/4/2003