Arabic News Weekly Edition for Syria, 10/16/2000
Weekly Edition, Syria - Week of October 16, 2000
- On President Bashar al-Assad's concluded visits to Saudi Arabia, Jordan
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Wednesday concluded two visits to each of Saudi Arabia and Jordan during which he met in al-Riyadh with the US secretary of state Madeleine Albright who called on him to " contain Hizbullah provocative acts " against Israel. President al-Assad replied that the Hizbullah party is " a social force in itself." Syria-Regional, Politics, 10/19/2000 - A third Syrian plane to Baghdad
A third Syrian plane arrived on Wednesday to Baghdad carrying aid from the executive bureau of the Arab agronomists union and contains agricultural herbicides and seeds with the aim to improve agricultural production and ensuring the minimum requirements of Iraqi farmers needs under the sanction imposed on the Iraqi people. Syria-Iraq, Politics, 10/19/2000 - Al-Assad discusses with Saudi king Arab developments
King Fahd Bin Abd al-Aziz of Saudi Arabia received the Syrian president Bashar al-Assad and the U.S Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. Saudi Arabia-Syria, Politics, 10/18/2000 - Palestinian Intifada wounded at Damascus hospital
A group of the wounded people of al-Aqsa Intifada arrived on Tuesday in Damascus through the border center in Daraa, on the border with Jordan. Syria-Palestine, Politics, 10/18/2000 - Al-Assad arrives in Amman, meets with Albright in al-Riyadh Jordan-Syria, Politics, 10/18/2000
- On President al-Assad's today visit to Saudi Arabia
The Saudi daily al-Watan has described the visit made by President Bashar al-Assad to Saudi Arabia today as a crowning and continuity of the strategic relations between the two states in the framework of what is called the " three principles which form the element of inter- Arab balance since ten years during which there were no Arab summits and an urgent need has emerged to establish a balance that brings all the Arabs together." Saudi Arabia-Syria, Politics, 10/17/2000 - Tlass comments on chances of war with Israel
Syrian deputy premier and defense minister Lt. Gen. Mustafa Tlass has stressed that Syria will not give Israel the chance to impose a war on it. Syria-Israel, Politics, 10/16/2000