Arabic News Weekly Edition for Syria, 8/5/2002
Weekly Edition, Syria - Week of August 5, 2002
- Syria: opening foreign currency accounts for residents, non residents,without asking for their source Syria, Economics, 8/9/2002
- Al-Shara: Syria will not give up an inch of its territories
Al-Shara talked about "Syria's unwavering and principled stand in supporting the Palestinian resistance and the Palestinian uprising until liberation, ending the Israeli occupation and founding the independent Palestinian state with Jerusalem as a capital.." Syria-Regional, Politics, 8/9/2002 - Media cooperation agreement between Syria, Tunisia
During his visit to Tunisia, the Syrian information minister Adnan Omran held several meetings with the Tunisian information and human rights minister Fatehi al-Hweidi. Tunisia-Syria, Politics, 8/9/2002 - Passport requirement removed for travel between Amman, Damascus
The Jordanian minister of tourism Taleb al-Refae announced that Amman and Damascus are now studying measures to be taken for travel between the two capitals by the use ID, not passports, noting that this decision was taken in 2001 but was postponed to be enforced because of the security condition the region is passing. Jordan-Syria, Politics, 8/8/2002 - Al- Shara to visit India, Pakistan next week
The Syrian foreign minister Farouk al-Shara will on August 14- 17 visit both India and Pakistan. He will, in India, takes part in its national day and meet in the second with President Pervez Musharraf and hold bilateral talks with him. Syria-Regional, Politics, 8/8/2002 - Before investigating him, Syrian company director disappears
The Syrian al-Baath ( party) daily, mouthpiece of the ruling party in Damascus, said Monday that the director general of one of the public sector's companies has disappeared after investigations started regarding " frozen debts estimated at 300 million Syrian pounds ( $ 6 million)." Syria, Politics, 8/6/2002 - Plans for 9 new Israeli settlements in the occupied Syrian Golan
The Israeli forces are removing the remains of a Syrian village to the north of the occupied Golan in order to build a new settlement of 150 houses. Syria-Israel, Politics, 8/6/2002 - Qaddoura, al-Shara review with Khouri Syrian- Lebanese relations
The speaker of the Syrian People's Assembly ( parliament ) Abdul Qader Qaddoura on Monday received the secretary general of the Syrian- Lebanese higher council Nasri al-Khouri. Syria-Lebanon, Politics, 8/6/2002 - Syria: new gas well in west of Palmyra
The minister of oil and mineral resources in Syria Ibrahim Haddad has announced the discovery of a new gas well to the west of Palmyra. This is the second gas well to be discovered within three months by the Croatian EINA company Syria, Economics, 8/5/2002