2011/10/24

Oct 23 Regional

سورية والعراق يبحثان إمكانية إقامة منطقتي تجارة حرة مشتركة
Syria, Iraq Discuss Possibility of Establishing Two Joint Free Trade Zones
http://www.sana.sy/ara/4/2011/10/24/377261.htm
http://www.sana.sy/eng/24/2011/10/23/377272.htm
Oct 23, 2011

DAMASCUS, (SANA) – Director-General of the General Establishment for Free Zones Abdul-Hakim Qaddah on Sunday discussed with Chairman of the Iraqi Free Zones Commission Saleh al-Qaisi and the accompanying delegation the possibility of establishing two joint Syrian-Iraqi free trade zones in al-Ya'arubyia and al-Bukamal in Syria and in Rabia and al-Qaem in Iraq.

The two sides also touched upon the means of facilitating the work at the joint free trade zones to increase the volume of trade exchange between the two countries and to introduce the businessmen and the investors on the available economic and investments capabilities and to develop them.


Developing Intra-Arab Trade Conference Kicks off in Cairo
http://www.sana.sy/eng/24/2011/10/23/377421.htm
Oct 23, 2011

CAIRO, (SANA) – Conference of developing the intra-Arab trade kicked off on Sunday in the Egyptian capital of Cairo with the participation of Syria.

The conference is organized by the Economic Union Council, affiliated to the Arab League.

The Syrian interposition focuses on trade, investment and the investment environment in Syria in addition to showcasing the improving rates of economic growth and completing economic, social and administrational reform.

The two-day conference will also tackle subjects related to developing the intra-Arab trade, particularly the establishment of the Arab Authority of Marketing in addition to discussing the role of marine transportation in activating the Arab economic cooperation agreements.


تضارب الأنباء حول مصير سيف الاسلام.. ديرشبيغل: المخابرات الألمانية ضالعة في تحديد مكان وجود القذافي قبل مقتله
Conflicting reports about the fate of Saif al-Islam .. SPIEGEL: German intelligence was involved in determining the whereabouts of Gaddafi before his death
http://www.sana.sy/ara/3/2011/10/23/377325.htm
October 23, .2011
Capitals (SANA) -

In light of the ongoing debate on how to kill Colonel Muammar Gaddafi after his capture alive and ways to identify those responsible for the killing and the relationship with NATO forces that revealed the German magazine Der Spiegel revealed today that the German external intelligence services BND discovered the place Gaddafi before his death a week full of it in an obvious to the possibility of a relationship to the German intelligence to provide information on the place of hiding by the target of bombing by NATO planes, where the alliance admitted later bombed for two vehicles to Ebian in Sirte, without having the knowledge of the existence Gaddafi them.

The weekly magazine in a story from Monday's upcoming deployment of the advance today on the media that the intelligence the German public knew exactly the whereabouts of Gaddafi in the town of Sirte, his hometown through a dense network of news sources have in the Middle East, traditionally, they did not announce the geographic coordinates for the site that will help an air strike upon by NATO who was also apparently aware of the whereabouts of al-Qadhafi.

She drew the German magazine that French warplanes fired on the convoy of Gaddafi when he tried out last Thursday from the town of Sirte, noting that this is not the first time that interfere with the intelligence, the German public in a war involving Germany, officially, as happened also in the invasion of Iraq in 2003 He refused to former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder then flatly to participate in this war but the Germans supplied the customer with information on the Americans Baghdad.

And considered the magazine that the failure of Germany to agree to air strikes by NATO against Libya and support in the UN Security Council to pay to the bargaining German intelligence to give information on the cache Qaddafi for months to compensate for the effects of the political consequences of retaining Germany's vote in the Security Council, noting that This will cause the device to withstand BND a share of the responsibility of killing Gaddafi.


أرسلان يؤكد تلازم المسار والمصير اللبناني السوري
Arslan stresses inherent in the track and the Lebanese-Syrian-determination (speeches by pro-Syrian political figures in Lebanon)
http://www.sana.sy/ara/3/2011/10/24/377278.htm
October 24, .2011
Beirut, (SANA) -

The head of the Lebanese Democratic Party MP Talal Arslan on the importance of brotherly relations between Syria, Lebanon and the inseparability of the track and the Lebanese-Syrian-determination.

Arslan and condemned during his meeting yesterday in Khaldeh delegations popular areas of the Chouf amplification events in Syria through the media and politicized Almmana directed against the role of Syria in the region.

Hamdan and the benefit of trying to warn others to make Lebanon a conduit to target Syria

For his part, warned Khalil Hamdan, a member of the Presidency in the Amal movement

the Lebanese parliament member Abdul Majid Saleh mass of Liberation and Development

Lebanese MP Hani Kobeissi member of the Liberation and Development bloc

Khaled Lebanese Communist Party


The dynasty's new blood
Talking to MP Sami Gemayel

http://www.nowlebanon.com/NewsArticleDetails.aspx?ID=315856
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Hanin Ghaddar
September 27, 2011

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On another note, when was the last time you visited a Shia village or town?

Gemayel: Honestly, I have never been invited to visit a Shia village, but I would gladly go. We are ready to visit any Lebanese region when anyone invites us. But we do not like to impose our presence anywhere.


(It seems that Mr Heikal of Egypt was the first person that used the term "new Sykes Picot".)

هيكل ‏..‏في الجزء الثالث من حواره بصراحة‏:‏
في غياب مصر‏ ..‏خرائط جديدة تتشكل ..‏من رسمها ‏..‏ومن يرسمها؟
http://www.ahram.org.eg/Al-Ahram%20Files/News/102838.aspx
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2011.09.23


الثورات العربية تنهب بـ"سايكس بيكو" ثانية !
Arab revolutions plundered the "Sykes-Picot" again!

http://www.felesteen.ps/details/24698/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AB%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D8%B1%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D8%AA%D9%86%D9%87%D8%A8-%D8%A8%D9%80%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%83%D8%B3-%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%88-%D8%AB%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%A9-.htm
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Mohamed Gamal Arafa
Egyptian writer and journalist
Monday, September 26, 2011, 11:27 GMT

Pay attention .. Our Arab revolution being stolen .. Yes being stolen .. Americans and Europeans who are interfering now firmly in Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Syria and Yemen, the character revolutions Arab objectives in real freedom, dignity and possession of the popular will independent, and seek only to divide the interests and resources in the region, including the achievement of their interests that were lost with the loss of dictators who keep them on the of interest.

And partition this time is a division of resources and sites division Unlike the first time (in the famous Sykes-Picot agreement), which was geographically division and distribution of spheres of influence!


On Syrian frontier, Turks bemoan soured ties
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2011/10/19/uk-turkey-syria-hatay-idUKTRE79I43720111019
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By Jonathon Burch
ANTAKYA, Turkey | Wed Oct 19, 2011 4:19pm BST

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In Reyhanli, a main border crossing in Hatay, Turkish trucks queue for hours in a line snaking back several kilometres (miles). Drivers reported no let-up in work but some said they now faced hostility from some Syrians and felt increasingly unsafe.

"They swear at our prime minister. They say 'we stamp on Erdogan with our shoes'," said 31-year-old truck driver Mehmet Ozdemir, who was transporting oven materials to Syria.

"They tell us our women are being raped in the Turkish camps and say 'you're taking them to Antalya and selling them'," Ozdemir said, referring to a city on Turkey's Mediterranean coast popular with Turkish and foreign tourists.

More than 7,500 Syrian refugees are living in six camps in Hatay and last month, Syrian state media reported that women were being raped and tortured in the camps. Turkey has strongly denied the claims.

"It is hard now to travel through Syria. We used to make our own food by the side of the road or sit in a restaurant but now we don't stop, we just drive straight through because of the security," said another truck driver, Abdulwahid Erisik.

"Sometimes they stop our convoys on the road. They threaten you with a gun. They wear civilian clothes. I don't know if they are police, civilians or what," said Erisik.

For some, the hostility has led to resentment of Turkey's assistance to the thousands of Syrians seeking refuge in Hatay.

"They are all gypsies, they don't have an ID card in Syria so they come here to get a Turkish passport," said hairdresser Celik, referring to the Syrian refugees.

Turkey does not refer to them as refugees, saying they are "guests" and can come and go as they please.

"We don't have a problem with the Syrian people but we should sort out our problems first," said another truck driver who did not want to be named.


Qatari PM tells Arab leaders to listen to the people
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/2011/Oct-24/152014-qatari-pm-tells-arab-leaders-to-listen-to-the-people.ashx
October 24, 2011 01:05 AM
Reuters

DUBAI: Arab leaders must be open to reform and listen to their peoples so that issues can be resolved without "conflict or protest," Qatar's prime minister said in a televised interview Sunday.

"Reform is not wrong – what's wrong is staying as you are and being arrogant at this time," Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim al-Thani told Al-Arabiya at the World Economic Forum in Jordan, two days after the capture and killing of Libya's Moammar Gadhafi.

"Nothing happens in an Arab country, or any country around the world, without there being a smart Arab leader who learns lessons and tries to reform."

Since uprisings began 10 months ago, the leaders of Tunisia, Egypt and Libya have been toppled, while Syria and Yemen continue to see mass demonstrations against autocratic rule.

Qatar, along with other rich Gulf countries, have mostly been spared such protests thanks to cradle-to-grave benefits for their smaller populations.

Qatar, ruled by the Thani Sunni monarchy for more than a century, was a key backer of tribal forces fighting against Gadhafi and has an influential voice in the Arab world, thanks to the Doha-based Al-Jazeera and to its mediation efforts.

"It is in [our] interests for there to be intellectual and rational openness to any idea for reform that can benefit [our] countries," said Sheikh Hamad, a distant cousin of Qatar's Emir, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani.

At the same time, Sheikh Hamad cautioned that violence was not the best way to bring about change: "We sympathize with all Arab countries and hope that this issue can be solved between governments and their people without going into conflict or protest."

In Bahrain, a Gulf island nation near Qatar, the Sunni-ruled monarchy crushed protests in February and March led mainly by majority Shiites demanding better access to jobs and benefits.

Al-Jazeera kept mostly silent on the protests, and last month its chief Waddah Khanfar stepped down, a sudden departure seen as a sign that the Qatar-backed broadcaster was toning down its coverage of regional unrest.


اللجنة الوزارية العربية تجتمع في الدوحة قبل زيارة دمشق
Arab Ministerial Committee meets in Doha before visiting Damascus
http://www.aksalser.com/index.php?page=view_news&id=77741aea7ec31873baa87a77b62c81f2&ar=789850938
Sunday - October 23 - 2011 - 22:29:07

Deputy Secretary-General of the Arab League, Ahmed Ben Helli, the Arab ministerial committee in charge of work on finding a solution to the crisis in Syria will meet Tuesday in Doha before heading to Damascus on Wednesday.

Ben Helli said, "al-Arabi will travel to Doha on Monday evening to participate in the meeting of the ministerial committee headed by the Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassem bin Jabor Al Thani, and also comprises the foreign ministers of Egypt, Oman, Algeria and Sudan.

At the time said the Secretary-General of the League Nabil al-Arabi "that the Arab League Council and the Committee of Ministers is not set to issue warnings or threats, or the like, but they are seeking in all seriousness to rally Arab efforts to help Syria out of the crisis and to ensure also the implementation of political reforms required ".

He added the Arab reporters, "The Commission is seeking in all seriousness to rally Arab efforts to help Syria out of the current crisis through specific mechanisms to allow a cease-fire and acts of violence in all its forms and create the appropriate atmosphere to start a comprehensive national dialogue puts Syria on a peaceful political solution away by the specter of foreign intervention and civil strife and to ensure also the implementation of political reforms required to meet the aspirations of the people to freedom. "


دانة غاز الإماراتية تقول إنها لا تجري محادثات بشأن الاستثمار في سوريا
UAE's Dana Gas says it is not in talks about investing in Syria
http://www.aksalser.com/index.php?page=view_news&id=db044d6a960346a12a8a6080c8aed11b&ar=336181760
Sunday - October 23 - 2011 - 15:15:41

Declared, "Ahmed Rashid Raver" CEO "Dana" the UAE, announced yesterday that his company is not in talks with the Syrian government on investment there.

The "Raver" in a statement to the Stock Exchange, said that while Dana Gas has examined the opportunities in Syria last year, but it is currently not conducting any talks with the Syrian authorities, has not signed any contracts or agreements.

The newspapers UAE said in early October that "Dana Gas", which has activities in Egypt and Iraq, the talks reached an advanced stage with Damascus to enter the Syrian energy sector, but the "Dana", a natural gas company only listed in the Gulf announced it no longer in talks with the Syrian government in light of the reluctance of foreign companies are increasingly doing business with Damascus because of the sanctions imposed on the country.

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