Arabic News Weekly Edition for Saudi Arabia, 12/29/2003
Weekly Edition, Saudi Arabia - Week of December 29, 2003
- Saudi women demand women's rights from crown prince Abdullah
The second session of the "national dialogue" continues deliberations in Mecca, where a group of Saudi women, most of them are university graduate called in a petition submitted to the crown prince Abdullah to found a higher council for women and to draw "special rules concerning the family in 'divorce cases.'" Saudi Arabia, Politics, 12/31/2003 - Saudi King Fahd receives Qurei'
Saudi Arabia King Fahd Bin Abdul Aziz yesterday received the Palestinian prime minister Ahmad Qurei' and members of the accompanying delegation and discussed with them latest developments concerning the Palestinian issue, bilateral relations, and Arab, Islamic and international affairs especially the Palestinian question, and the acts of killing and destruction practices against the Palestinians at the hands of the Israeli forces. Saudi Arabia-Palestine, Politics, 12/31/2003 - Settling all trade obstacles between Egypt, Saudi Arabia Egypt-Saudi Arabia, Economics, 12/31/2003
- Saudi Arabia: no casualties in al-Salaam quarters in Riyadh
An official at the Saudi ministry of the interior said that no casualties or damaged resulted from the car explosion which took place Monday in Riyadh. Saudi Arabia, Local, 12/31/2003 - Saudi Arabia: senior al-Qaida member surrenders
The Saudi Arabian official mass media announced that one of the main wanted extremist Islamists in Saudi Arabia surrendered to the police yesterday. Saudi Arabia, Local, 12/31/2003 - National dialogue forum started work in Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabian scholars and intellectuals started on Sunday a forum that aims at eliminating what is called r"eligious extremism" in the Kingdom, which witnessed the killing of 50 persons in attacks targeting residential sites. Saudi Arabia, Politics, 12/29/2003 - Ghali's talks in Arabia touch on investment in petrochemicals
Egypt's Foreign Trade Minister Youssef Boutros Ghali said his talks with officials from the Saudi Basic Industries Company (SABIC)touched on the possibility of setting up investment projects in Egypt, particularly in the field of fertilizers. Saudi Arabia-Egypt, Economics, 12/29/2003 - Moroccan, Saudi FMs probe bilateral ties
Moroccan minister of foreign affairs and cooperation, Mohammed Benaissa, currently on a two-day visit to Saudi Arabia, met in Jeddah Friday evening his Saudi peer, Prince Saoud Al Faisal, on bilateral ties. Saudi Arabia-Morocco, Politics, 12/29/2003