Arabic News Weekly Edition for Palestine, 5/1/2000
Weekly Edition, Palestine - Week of May 1, 2000
- Palestinian people's front denies involvement in Lockerbie incident
Talal Naji, the assistant secretary general of the People's Front- General Command, led by Ahmad Jibril, expressed the readiness of the front to send a lawyer to give his testimony in the trial of the two Libyans who are accused of exploding a Pan Am passenger jet over Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988. Regional-Palestine, Politics, 5/5/2000 - Ross doubts progress on the Palestinian track Palestine-Israel-USA, Politics, 5/4/2000
- Arafat criticizes expansion of Israeli settlement
The Palestinian president Yasser Arafat denounced the Israeli government's decision to expand the Maalia Abu Ghoneim settlement, one of the largest Israeli settlements in the West Bank Palestine-Israel, Politics, 5/4/2000 - Saudi defense minister confers with Arafat Saudi Arabia-Palestine, Politics, 5/3/2000
- Israel welcomes US role in the peace process
Israeli negotiator Oded Eran said that any role played by US diplomacy in the peace process will be acceptable, whatever it is. Palestine-Israel-USA, Politics, 5/3/2000 - Moratinos confers with Palestinians
The chairman of the Palestinian delegation to the final status talks with Israel has stated that the Palestinian and Israeli sides have not yet found a mechanism to start discussion on substantial issues pending in these negotiations. Palestine-Israel-European Union, Politics, 5/3/2000 - Ross arrives in Tel Aviv
Dennis Ross, the US coordinator for the Middle East peace process, arrived in Israel today on a new US assignment to advance the negotiations on the Palestinian- Israeli track. Palestine-Israel-USA, Politics, 5/2/2000 - Bahraini foreign minister confers with Ashrawi
Bahraini Foreign Minister Sheikh Muhammad Bin Mubarak al-Khalifa met on Monday with Palestinian Legislative Council member Hanan Ashrawi, currently visiting Manama. Bahrain-Palestine, Politics, 5/2/2000 - Arafat confers with Australia's foreign minister
Arafat told journalists following his meeting with Australian Prime Minister John Howard that the US, Europe and the UN also consider the settlement process as destructive to the peace process, adding that the new Israeli government issued during one year some 7,128 licenses to build settlements inside and outside Jerusalem and attempted to besiege Bethlehem from all directions. Palestine-Australia, Politics, 5/2/2000 - Arafat visits Riyadh today
Palestinian President Yasser Arafat is heading today for a two-day visit to Riyadh to discuss the peace process developments in the Middle East. Palestine-Saudi Arabia, Politics, 5/2/2000 - Bahrain 's prime minister confers with Hanan Ashrawi Bahrain-Palestine, Politics, 5/1/2000
- Palestinian state is an existing reality
In an interview granted to the Egyptian magazine "Al-Musawwar", published on April 28, 2000, His Holiness Pope Shenouda III said that the Palestinian State is an existing reality since the Partition Resolution which stipulated the establishment of two states on the Palestinian territory. Egypt-Palestine, Politics, 5/1/2000