Arabic News Weekly Edition for Qatar, 7/16/2001
Weekly Edition, Qatar - Week of July 16, 2001
- Threats against Qatar
The Kuwaiti daily al-Seyasah said on Friday that it had received critical information from Egyptian sides saying that the Egyptian authorities fear over the carrying operations by extremists Arab sides inside Qatar and against its interests abroad might reach the level of liquidating certain political figures, in reply to the extreme dealing with Israel. Qatar-Israel, Politics, 7/21/2001 - Yemen will not attend Doha economic conference if Israel takes part
The Yemeni armed forces newspaper ( September 26) said that Yemen will not take part in the meeting of the world Trade Organization which will be hosted by Qatar in November this year of Israel will be taking part. Yemen-Qatar, Politics, 7/20/2001 - A Gulf country holds an Israeli ship heading for Qatar
The Jordanian weekly al-Bilad has published excerpts from press reports on Wednesday saying that a certain Gulf states,not mentioned by name, has recently held, for the second time during several weeks a ship loaded by Israeli commodities for Qatar without legal passage licensing and is hiding behind forged documents. Qatar-Israel, Politics, 7/19/2001 - Kuwait calls for boycotting Doha conference
In retaliation to Qatar's declaration of Israel's participation at the World Trade Conference due to be held in Doha in November this year, the chairman of the Kuwaiti al-Ummah council ( parliament) Jasem al-Khurafi hoped that Kuwait will not take part in this conference because of Israel's participation in it. Kuwait-Qatar, Politics, 7/18/2001 - Jordanian, Qatari crisis continues
The Jordanian weekly al-Majd said in its recent issue published on Monday that the Jordanian- Qatari crisis which erupted because of the official spokesman for the Hamas Movement Ibrahim Ghoushe and the Qatari plane which took him to Amman's airport has been calmed, yet still flaring under the ashes despite Ghoushe's return to Jordan and the return of the plane to Qatar. Jordan-Qatar, Politics, 7/17/2001 - Four Arab Gulf states agree on the Qatari candidate for the GCC secretary post
Press sources said that the Qatari candidate for the post of the secretary general of the Gulf Cooperation Council Abdul Rahman al-Ateyah, the secretary of the Qatari foreign ministry got the consent of four Arab Gulf states to this post. Gulf-Qatar, Politics, 7/17/2001