Arabic News Weekly Edition for Syria, 4/12/2004
Weekly Edition, Syria - Week of April 12, 2004
- Marines forces reinforcement on the border with Syria, Washington calls on Damascus to halt sneaking, religious clerics support al-Sader
The Shiite clergy Muqtada al-Sader appeared yesterday in al-Kofa, after several days in hiding, defying the occupation forces and announcing his total rejection to desolve "al-Mahdi army" in a sharp Friday sermon, that went in contradiction with what stated by his circles recently that he had given up all his conditions and placed himself at the disposal of the religious clerics which seemed to have decided to support him and consider any aggression against him as being against it." Syria-USA, Politics, 4/17/2004 - Keftaro meets with Finnish intellectual Delegation
Syria's Grand Mufti, Sheikh Ahmad Keftaro on Friday received a Finnish delegation chaired by Hamin Antila, the chairman of Eastern Studies Institute at Helsinki University. Syria-Finland, Politics, 4/17/2004 - Frateini calls on Damascus to mediate to release his citizens in Iraq Syria-Italy, Politics, 4/17/2004
- Arab Funds are ready to invest in Syria
Syria's Minister of Finance Mohammed Al-Hussein on Thursday announced Arab Funds heads willingness to invest in ambitious projects of development taking place in Syria. Syria-Regional, Politics, 4/16/2004 - US congratulates Syria on Evacuation Day; urges help
US President George W. Bush on Thursday sent a message of congratulations to President Bashar Al-Assad on Syria's National Day of April 17, the day when French troops evacuated Syria. Syria-USA, Politics, 4/16/2004 - Syrian - Egyptian universities co-operation agreement signed
Aleppo and Ein Shams Universities on Thursday signed a scientific cooperation accord for the years 2004 and 2006. Syria-Egypt, Education, 4/16/2004 - Syrian activists detained
The Syrian security authorities detained the Syrian lawyer Aktham Nueisah, a human rights activist after he had received a notification to be before the military security branch office in Lattakia. Syria, Politics, 4/15/2004 - Moussa arrives in Damascus
al-Shara described the latest developments in Iraq as dangerous, adding there is a state of tension and escalation that included the whole region. He Syria-Regional, Politics, 4/15/2004 - Syria seeks to attract more investors; Kuwaiti official
The Syrian government is on the look out to surmount all obstacles facing investors as to guarantee their investments and their growth. This would be done by laws, modern and updated legislations, Minister of Finance Mohammed Hussein said in Kuwait on Tuesday. Syria-Kuwait, Economics, 4/15/2004 - Al-Assad meets with Lebanese parliamentarian Syria-Lebanon, Politics, 4/15/2004
- Syrian legal society calls for disclosing the fate of the missing
The Human rights society in Syria called on the "authorities concerned to find out a solution for the file of missing and notify their relatives about their fate, take necessary legal measures and material and moral compensations for their relatives in order to close the file of the past and heal the wounds. Syria, Politics, 4/14/2004 - Refaee: Syria's economy is booming
Syria's Economy and Trader Minister Ghassan al-Refaee on Tuesday said the Syrian Economy is witnessing a big economic openness that focuses on several basic sectors in industry, banking, administration and finance. Syria, Politics, 4/14/2004 - Al-Assad confers with Saudi FM Syria-Saudi Arabia, Politics, 4/14/2004
- Syriac Heritage Conference opened in Damascus
The Minister of Culture, Mahmoud al-Sayyed, inaugurated at the al-Assad Library in Damascus Tuesday the 3-day 9th Conference of Syriac Heritage sponsored by the Ministry of Culture and the Lebanese Center for Oriental Studies and Researches. Syria-Regional, Local, 4/14/2004 - Khaddam receives PLO executive committee chief Syria-Palestine, Politics, 4/14/2004
- Islamic Jurisprudence-Forum opened at Damascus's al-Assad library
Syria's Minister of Islamic Trusts ( Waqf ) on Monday opened at al-Assad Library in Damascus the first Islamic forum on "Jurisprudence Between Renovation and Abuse" hosted by the Abul Nour Foundation in cooperation between the Ministry of Islamic Trusts and the World Islamic League (WIL). Regional-Syria, Religion, 4/13/2004 - Information minister and the Greater Middle East project
Syria's Information Minister Ahmad al-Hassan underlined on Monday the necessity for confronting the so-called 'the Greater Middle East initiative" and the other ready-made and manufactured projects that "aim at driving us away from issues of the Arab-Israeli conflict and Iraq's occupation." Syria-Regional, Politics, 4/13/2004 - Al-Assad confers with Qaddoumi Syria-Palestine, Politics, 4/13/2004
- Syrian - Saudi health cooperation Syria-Saudi Arabia, Economics, 4/13/2004
- Syrian Red Crescent aids to Falouja people Syria-Iraq, Politics, 4/13/2004