Arabic News Weekly Edition for Jordan, 5/17/2004
Weekly Edition, Jordan - Week of May 17, 2004
- Amman hosts a conference on violence against women
Works of the Arab consultation meeting start today in Amman. The event is organized by the International institute in solidarity with women in Jordan under the title towards issuing " an Arab report on violence against the woman." Regional-Jordan, Culture, 5/22/2004 - Jordan: al- Majd stopped, refusing apology to Saudi Arabia
The Jordanian weekly al-Majd decided yesterday to stop publishing over rejecting giving " explanation " about an article it had published considered damaging for the relations between Jordan and Saudi Arabia. This is, however, after the state security court set that ( apology) as a precondition so as to permit the paper continue publication. Jordan-Saudi Arabia, Politics, 5/21/2004 - King Abdallah of Jordan in Morocco Morocco-Jordan, Politics, 5/20/2004
- King Abdullah: we do not have the right to send forces to Iraq
The Jordanian King Abdullah II stressed in the closing ceremony of the world economic forum in al-Shouna in Jordan that the international community faces the challenge of finding solutions for the Palestinian issue and the future of Iraq, while the Israeli foreign minister Silvan Shalom seized the opportunity of taking part in the final session of the forum in order to defend demolishing the houses of the Palestinian in Gaza and to launch a campaign against the Palestinian authority. Jordan-Iraq, Politics, 5/18/2004