Arabic News Weekly Edition for Syria, 3/28/2005
Weekly Edition, Syria - Week of March 28, 2005
- Syria to completely pull out its forces before the Lebanese elections
Syria said it will withdraw all its forces existing in Lebanon before the elections so as this announcement will end any speculation on the presence of 10,000 soldiers in the Bekaa plain, in the east of Lebanon. Lebanon-Syria, Politics, 3/30/2005 - Syrian forces complete first phase of withdrawal
Damascus has completed the first phase of the withdrawal plan by pulling out its forces to the Bekaa plain, in the east of Lebanon, and pulled out more than one third of its forces deployed there into inside the Syrian territories. Lebanon-Syria, Politics, 3/30/2005 - Syria licenses Islamic banks
Syria's Minister of Finance on Tuesday said the cabinet's decision to build Islamic banks in Syria will play a significant role to bring financial savings and improve banking and finance markets as well back development projects. Syria, Economics, 3/30/2005 - Golan citizens committed to their syrian identity
British newspaper of Financial Times said Tuesday that the Syrian citizens of the occupied Golan are committed to loyalty to their motherland and wished that their ordeal under the Israeli occupation would get international attention. Syria-Israel, Politics, 3/30/2005 - Syria's economy is passing by significant stage, Dardari
The economy in Syria and the developing process are passing thorough a very important stage taking into consideration the need to merge into the international economy, Chairman of the State Planning Commission said today. Syria, Economics, 3/30/2005 - Symposium on Damascus flower, the Jasmine
Jasmine is one of the plants Damascus is historically famous for besides the Damascene Rose, a symposium on Jasmine plantation in the Syrian capital said on Tuesday. Syria, Local, 3/30/2005 - Reforms in Syria: Baath party national congress furnishes for the regional congress in June
Well informed sources in Damascus said that the 10th Regional Congress of the Baath Arab Socialist party in Syria will be held by the beginning of June and will be preceded by a national ( pan Arab) congress for the party which will be the first in 22 years. Syria, Politics, 3/29/2005 - Al-Assad: security in Lebanon was not Syria's task
The Syrian President Bashar al-Assad considered that the UN report on the assassination of the former Lebanese prime minister Rafic Hariri is "a political report based on views rather than evidence." Syria-Lebanon, Politics, 3/29/2005 - Lebanese figures and parties reject foreign intervention
Lebanese national parties in Baalbek underlined rejection of foreign intervention, asserting the importance of rapprochement and dialogue based on the Taif accord and the national principles in facing all attempts to harm the national unity. Lebanon-Syria, Politics, 3/29/2005 - Junblat rules out dismantling Hizbullah weapons now Lebanon-Syria, Politics, 3/29/2005
- Syrian forces continue withdrawal from Lebanon
While Lebanon is preparing today, Monday, to celebrate the 40th day after the death of the late Lebanese prime minister Rafic Hariri, amid tense security atmospheres, the Syrian forces continued on Sunday their withdrawal from the Lebanese territories. Lebanon-Syria, Politics, 3/28/2005 - Syrian-Tunisian joint higher committee concludes deliberations
Syria and Tunisia on Sunday signed a number of agreements, protocols and understanding memorandums. Syria-Tunisia, Politics, 3/28/2005 - Washington intensifies contacts with the Syrian opposition
The American administration has intensified contacts with the Syrian opposition, amid fears that the state of unrest in Lebanon will cause wider instability in the region, according to American officials. Syria-USA, Politics, 3/28/2005 - Al-Assad confers with Tunisia's Ghannoushi Syria-Tunisia, Politics, 3/28/2005