Arabic News Weekly Edition for Tunisia, 4/9/2001
Weekly Edition, Tunisia - Week of April 9, 2001
- Tunisia: poverty rates decreased in the year 2000
Poverty rate decreased in Tunisia in the year 2000 to 4.2% after it was 6.2% in 1995. This is due to the developmental policies purused by the Tunisian government since the year 1987. A policy which gave special interest to social care and fair distribution of profits, as more than one million inhabitants benefited from loans given by the National Fund for solidarity known as Fund 26-26, which was established by the Tunisian President Zein al-Abidin Bin Ali in 1992. Tunisia, Economics, 4/14/2001 - Al-Assad returned back home concluding visits to Morocco, Tunisia
" We are today in dire need for unity, manliness and faithfulness with a view to confronting the imminent danger represented by Israel and its racist and expansionist ambitions in the Arab homeland. This very danger still plants poisons in the body of the steadfast and heroic Palestinian people and targets all Arabs, who have according to the teachings of the Holy Koran. to confront this danger and repel it." Tunisia-Syria, Politics, 4/14/2001 - Bin Ali, al-Assad hold talks on Arab issues
Talks dealt with Syrian- Tunisian relations and prospects of their developments and current regional and international issues. Tunisia-Syria, Politics, 4/12/2001 - Syria and Tunisia: joint care for maintaining remarkable relations
Thanks to Tunisia's remarkable position among other Arab states, Syria seeks to deepen and consolidate these relations with it especially on the economic and political areas to withstand international and regional developments. Tunisia-Syria, Politics, 4/11/2001