Arabic News Weekly Edition for Tunisia, 5/3/1999
Weekly Edition, Tunisia - Week of May 3, 1999
- First Tunisian private sector power link established
The French Alestom engineering group won a contract to establish an electric station with a strength of 471 million megawatts near the Tunisian capital in the first private project for generating electricity in Tunis. Tunisia-France, Economics, 5/6/1999 - Preparations for the Tunisian elections
The ruling RCD started an early election campaign in the recent weeks by collecting the support of public organizations, vocational, social and cultural associations for its list, seeking to maintain the first position. Tunisia, Politics, 5/5/1999 - King Hassan sends message to Tunisian president
King Hassan II has sent president Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali of Tunisia a message related mainly to the follow-up of the official visit Ben Ali paid to Morocco last March 15-16. Morocco-Tunisia, Politics, 5/4/1999 - Saudi Arabia, Tunisia discuss regional and bilateral issues
Saudi Arabia and Tunisia have expressed in a joint statement their concern over the stalemate in the Middle East peace process and held Israeli responsible for the stalemate. Saudi Arabia-Tunisia, Politics, 5/3/1999