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Following a two-day session in Moscow of the Joint Control Commission (JCC) tasked with monitoring the situation in the South Ossetian conflict zone, the Georgian and South Ossetian government representatives [...]

According to Sabah, Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul returned to Turkey from the US, ending his four-day official visit to Washington. Speaking to journalists upon his arrival at Ankara's Esenboga Airport, [...]

According to 'Syria Live', President Bashar Al-Assad received at AL-Rawda Palace Former Member of the Lebanese Parliament, Mr. Najah Wakim. President Al-Assad also received Member of the Lebanese Parliament, Elias [...]

According to 'Dunya', the governors of six eastern and southeastern Anatolia provinces and 19 high-level officials from Ankara met in Diyarbakir to discuss possible measures to be taken in case [...]

According to 'Dunya', US Ambassador to Ankara Robert Pearson is scheduled to brief select Turkish parliamentarians on the Iraq issue. Pearson will lay out the US policy on Iraq to [...]

According to 'Dunya', Yannakis Kasulides, the foreign minister of Greek Cyprus, stated that the UN's Cyprus plan might be changed per the separate requests of both sides on the island. [...]

According to 'Dunya', Iraq's Ambassador to Ankara Talip Abid Salih al-Dileymi stated that Iraq appreciated Turkey's efforts to find a peaceful solution to the current crisis in his country. Stating [...]

Speaking to journalists in Paris, Sergei Ivanov stressed that Moscow and Paris hold virtually identical views of the Iraq situation, Russian and Western news agencies reported. Ivanov added that Russia [...]

Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov arrived in Paris on 15 November for the inaugural meeting of the Russian-French Security Cooperation Council, Russian and Western news agencies reported. The new body comprises [...]

The KSA Today newspaper gave details on the discussions in the Joint Syrian-Iraqi Supreme Council to implement agreements signed in early August 2002. The paper noted that the discussions were [...]

According to Cumhuriyet, Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) President Rauf Denktas, following his meeting with Greek Cypriot leader Glafkos Clerides as part of the sixth round of the direct [...]

President of the Lebanese Phalanges Party Kareem Baqradouni emphasized Tuesday that Syrian-Lebanese relations constitute an example of the integration between two brotherly countries and Arab-Arab relations in confronting Israel. In [...]

Saudi Arabia and Libya inked in the port city of Jeddah Tuesday a comprehensive cooperation agreement to strengthen economic, investment and cultural relations between the two Arab countries. The agreement [...]

Chief of the Syrian Chamber of Commerce Union, Dr. Rateb Shallah received in Damascus on Tuesday a Romanian Businessmen Delegation representing representatives of the Romanian Industrial, Commercial and Agricultural companies [...]

Lebanon's Information Minister, Ghazi al-Aridi has emphasized the unity of Syrian and Lebanese attitudes in wake of the Israeli aggressions in Palestine as well as US threats against Iraq, and [...]

Turkish Deputy Foreign Minister is scheduled to arrive in Israel for a two-day visit, Israel Radio reported Wednesday. He is expected to discuss bilateral cooperation during his talks with Israeli [...]

Syrian Parliament Speaker Abdel-Qadder Qaddoura restated Damascus' commitment to just peace and to the restoration of all the usurped Arab rights. During a speech delivered in Iraq's capital city of [...]

United States envoy David Satterfield has arrived in Beirut, Lebanon on the final stop of a Middle East tour, Israel Radio reported, cited by the Jerusalem Post Wednesday. He is [...]

According to IRNA, European Union (EU) Foreign Policy Chief Javier Solana met with Expediency Council (EC) Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani. Hashemi Rafsanjani referred to Iran's decision to strengthen ties in [...]

In Syria, Damascus Radio has said that the blatant U.S. bias towards Israel and the adoption of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's policies 'not only has negatively reflected on the [...]

'We are not trying to overpower the Palestinian people, we are trying to underrate Palestinian terror,' Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres told CNN Tuesday night. The foreign minister is currently [...]

As many as sixty trucks loaded with relief assistance for the Palestinian people, are expected to leave Saudi Arabia on Thursday for Jordan. Dr. Abdulrahman Al-Suweilim, the president the Saudi [...]

Iraqi Foreign Minister Dr. Naji Sabri met on Tuesday with the Chief of the United Nations Iraq-Kuwait Observation Mission (UNIKOM) General Morino. The two sides discussed relations between Iraq and [...]

Deputy Chairman of the Revolution Command Council Izzat Ibrahim received Wednesday the Qatari Charge d'Affaires, Sheikh Hamad Bin Mohammed Bin Mubarak Al Khalefa. Ibrahim received a written message from Deputy [...]

President George W. Bush mentioned Iran in his annual 'Captive Nations Week' proclamation, released on 17 July. 'In too many corners of the earth, freedom and independence are the victims [...]

Al-Ahram newspaper gave details of a session of a delegation of experts from the European Union countries visiting Egypt with the Commercial Attaches serving in European Countries. The paper noted [...]

According to Al-Hayat newspaper (July 14, 2002), the Japanese Embassy in Sanaa announced that an agreement was signed to contribute $7.8 million to build a tuberculosis treatment center in Yemen. [...]

According to Al-Hayat newspaper (July 13, 2002), a senior official in the Yemeni Ministry of Treasury revealed that the Yemeni government will sign bilateral agreements with some of the borrowing [...]

Cyprus and Moldavia signed earlier this week an aviation agreement to strengthen cooperation between the two countries in air transports, the Cyprus News Agency reported. According to an official press [...]

Kuwait's first deputy premier and foreign minister Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah returned home from Saudi Arabia on Tuesday evening after conveying a message from Kuwait's Amir Sheikh Jaber al-Ahmad al-Jaber [...]

Cypriot Minister of Foreign Affairs Ioannis Kasoulides met on Tuesday in Jerusalem with Knesset (Parliament) Speaker Avraham Burg. In the course of the meeting, which took place behind closed doors, [...]

Yemen's Foreign Minister, Abu Baker al-Qerbi, returned to Sanaa on Saturday after attending meetings of the Arab Mid-East peace follow-up and initiative committees held in Cairo on Friday. On his [...]

Russia TV on 9 April broadcast an interview with Russian ultranationalist and State Duma deputy speaker Vladimir Zhirinovsky regarding Iraq. Zhirinovsky denied that he had any personal financial interest in [...]

According to Al-Hayat newspaper (March 10, 2002), the United Kingdom, the United States, Germany and Finland agreed to finance the necessary feasibility studies for launching projects in various states situated [...]

According to 'Jordan Times', King Abdullah will pay a one-day visit to Syria for talks with President Bashar Al Assad on the situation in the West Bank and Gaza. A [...]

Syrian Minister of Justice Mohammed Nabil Khatib arrived in Khartoum, heading a high level delegation on a visit to Sudan to attend the 24th session of the Arab Justice Ministers [...]

The European Union has welcomed the announcement of a meeting between the heads of state of Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia to be held in Rabat upon the invitation! by [...]

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak applauded Israel's coordination with the Palestinian Authority Saturday during a phone conversation with Israeli Defense Minister Benjamin Ben Eliezer, public radio reported, according to AFP. Mubarak [...]

On Saturday, United States President George W. Bush and his French counterpart, Jacques Chirac, exchanged views on the Middle East and Asia during a telephone conversation described by the White [...]

According to Cumhuriyet, Turkish Defense Minister Sabahattin Cakmakoglu traveled to Pakistan upon the official invitation of his Pakistani counterpart Abdul Sattar. During his visit, Cakmakoglu is also due to meet [...]

According to 'Jordan Times', the plan for a joint Jordanian-Israeli airport that was stipulated by the 1994 peace treaty remains shelved, as each side prepares to develop its allocated land [...]

According to Turkiye, Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) President Rauf Denktas visited TGNA Speaker, Omer Izgi, and then addressed the parliament. Explaining the developments in Cyprus in the last [...]

Armenian Foreign Minister Vardan Oskanian said that 'Turkish-Georgian military cooperation causes serious alarm in Yerevan because this may considerably upset the regional balance,' Prime-News reported on 26 April. He said [...]

In an interview with Reuters released on 26 April, Armenian Foreign Minister Oskanian said that Yerevan 'will not accept any subjugation of Nagorno-Karabakh' to Baku. He said, however, that Armenia [...]

Syrian Foreign Minister Faruq Al-Shar'a told a Kuwaiti National Assembly delegation that Syria will defend Kuwait if its security is ever threatened, Damascus Radio reported on 30 January. He added [...]

According to Assafir newspaper (January 10, 2001), the Lebanese agriculture ministry has recently received an initial shipment of an aid containing shrubs contributed by Syria. The first shipment included 400,000 [...]

A Bulgarian delegation, headed by former Bulgarian Prime Minister Zhen Videnov, held a series of talks with Iraqi officials in Baghdad on bilateral cooperation between the two countries, Baghdad Radio [...]

Albania's Foreign Ministry said on 8 November that it is prepared to establish contacts with the Yugoslav government, AP reported. Foreign Minister Paskal Milo said in a statement that 'Albania [...]

Following a meeting in Bratislava with Czech Premier Milos Zeman, Slovak Prime Minister Mikulas Dzurinda told CTK on 2 November that 'Czech-Slovak relations are developing without problems and are very [...]

The inconspicuous discussions regarding a deal by which the four Israelis taken hostage by Hizbollah forces and held in Lebanon have been underway. The current plan, put together by President [...]