Kuwait: Protesters urge multi-party rule ACCOUNT FOR PUBLIC FUNDS … RESIGN, RALLY TELLS GOVERNMENT
http://www.arabtimesonline.com/NewsDetails/tabid/96/smid/414/ArticleID/173867/reftab/36/t/Protesters-urge-multi-party-rule/Default.aspx
KUWAIT CITY, Sept 16: Hundreds of Kuwaitis rallied Friday demanding a constitutional monarchy and an elected government, as Kuwait battles with an unprecedented corruption scandal involving MPs.
Holding banners calling for fundamental reforms, including appointing a prime minister from outside the Al-Sabah ruling family, the protesters also chanted slogans urging the dismissal of the prime minister and dissolving parliament.
"The people want to topple the prime minister" — Sheikh Nasser Mohammad Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, a nephew of the Amir — chanted the mostly young protesters in the demonstration dubbed as "the people's day."
Protesters called for dissolving parliament after the public prosecution last week launched a probe into bank accounts of at least nine MPs in the 50-member house for alleged illegal deposits.
Local media and opposition MPs claimed the funds, estimated at around $350 million (252 million euros), were given to MPs in exchange for voting on key issues in parliament, including grillings of ministers.
Kuwait has been little affected by the so-called Arab Spring that has already toppled three leaders, but opposition Islamist MP Waleed Al-Tabtabaei warned that this could come.
"The breeze of the Arab Spring is blowing on Kuwait but not to topple the regime, only to reform it," Tabtabaei told a gathering Tuesday night.
On Thursday, the state minister for cabinet affairs and government spokesman Ali al-Rashed, in an interview with Al-Rai television, accused those who call for a Kuwaiti Spring as "traitors who aim at toppling the regime."
Youth activists have also called for deep reforms to legalise political parties and have a popular government.
"These proposals aim to transfer Kuwait from the family state into the state of the people ... This is a popular demand and the authority must look seriously into it," one of the organisers told the crowd.
Under the proposed reform, the Al-Sabah family would still have the Amir and Crown Prince as stipulated by the 1962 constitution, but the post of the prime minister would go to the people.
The family remains in control of most key cabinet posts, including the premiership and the so-called sovereign ministries of defence, interior and foreign affairs.
Kuwait has been rocked by a series of political disputes over the past five years, stalling development plans despite abundant financial surpluses amounting to $300 billion.
No Shia, no Sunni, One nation, one people and government elected by the people, were other slogans chanted by the protesters amidst tight security, in front of the Kuwait City Municipality building.
The rally was attended by notables like Khalid Al-Fadallah, Zaid Al-Zaid as well as Member of Parliament Mubarak Al-Walaan. While calling for deep reforms in government, MP Walaan said corruption is eating into the fabric of government and the best thing is for the government to resign, parliament dissolved and popular elections held for the selection of the prime minister and the National Assembly.
A youth activist Hamad Al-Olyan in an interview said too much money is being wasted with no new development taking place in Kuwait. He alleged that monies are being dished out to MPs by the prime minister as bribe for their support for his continued stay in power, adding that those monies could have been put to better use in the expansion of healthcare and education for the people, as those sectors-education and health have not seen any new development in a long time. "So we want the prime minister to resign immediately and be replaced by someone else, but our ultimate aim is to have that position elected by the people of Kuwait".
There were others among the protesters like Khalid Al-Mulaifi, who apart from the common demand they all held calling for the dissolution of parliament and government, demanded an equal share of the national cake for all citizens as well as hold to account those found to be plundering the national wealth.
Ummu Abdullah was worried about the health minister getting his priorities misplaced, when he sanctioned the evacuation of wounded foreigners into Kuwait to be flown out to Europe for medical attention at the state's expense. Another issue she complained about was the alleged stagnation in development in the country, citing the inadequate hospitals as well as one university serving the entire country. "It's a shame that Kuwaitis are suffering from chronic illnesses without any proper healthcare in place", she said.
The protesters, whose attempt to take their march to the street got thwarted by the strong security presence, dispersed with a decision to meet again at a later date.
2011/09/17
Sep 17 Regional
أكد أن الشركات السعودية في سورية تتعرض لخسائر جسيمة .. مسؤول سعودي : شلل في الصادرات السعودية لسورية
He stressed that Saudi companies in Syria is under heavy losses .. Saudi official: paralysis of the Saudi exports to Syria
http://www.aksalser.com/index.php?page=view_news&id=f37e04315b7fb6bce98673ca04fe8de7&ar=222948443
Saturday - September 17 - 2011 - 9:33:18
An official in the Saudi Arabian Business Council - Syrian Saudi investments in Syria suffered heavy losses in general, as a result of recent events experienced by the country, pointing out that the recent European sanctions have caused direct damage to Saudi companies contracting with the Syrian government, led by energy companies.
According to the newspaper "al-Hayat", the Deputy Chairman of the Board "Mohammed Qaraawi" that the majority of companies that have contracts directly with the Syrian government has been significantly influenced and affected by the results of the economic sanctions imposed by America and Europe to that government, as represented on the contracts of energy and electricity, which carried out by Saudi investors in Syria.
"The Qaraawi": "security situation and political crisis in Syria also affected in all of Saudi investments there, and caused damage to low operating and stop sales of all tourism projects and agricultural and industrial, although the rates of damage varied in each sector from the other, cement factories stopped, and the draft products food and agricultural stopped, and we are now in the process of counting the damage to an investment. "
The "Qaraawi" to hit the semi-paralysis of Saudi exports to Damascus and Beirut during the recent period, as it stops the export of all food products, petrochemicals and all the goods there, because of the unrest and the disruption of road traffic to Syria.
The Vice President of Business Council, Saudi Arabia - Syria that, despite the political crisis, dealing with the Syrian government with Saudi investors still good, and did not spare them any ill-treatment, at the time committed itself to these investors have their places, and did not fly one of them to Syria after crisis.
The volume of Saudi investments in Syria is estimated at $ 2.5 billion, is concentrated in manufacturing, food and tourism, with nearly two thousand jobs.
Turkey denies soldier's rendition
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/n.php?n=turkey-denies-soldier8217s-rendition-2011-09-16
Friday, September 16, 2011
ANKARA – Hürriyet Daily News
Turkey has denied extraditing Syrian refugees to Damascus or rejecting those seeking asylum, dismissing such allegations as "disinformation activities originating from Syria in the face of its internal problems."
"It is out of the question for Turkey to send any Syrian citizen back to Syria or to another country under the current circumstances," a Foreign Ministry statement said Friday, emphasizing that "allegations concerning Syrian citizen Hussein Harmoush are baseless."
Harmoush, a lieutenant colonel, was the first military officer to publicly declare his defection from the Syrian army in June, after which he led the "Brigade of Free Officers," a group of dozens of officers who have deserted the regime.
Opposition sources in Damascus said Harmoush was recently captured in Turkey by Syrian intelligence agents and brought back to Syria, Agence France-Presse reported.
The officer appeared on Syrian state television Thursday, claiming he returned willingly. He denied ever receiving orders to shoot civilians and repeated the government line that armed gangs were killing them. Omar al-Muqdad, a prominent Syrian opposition activist now in exile in Turkey applying for refugee status, said the Turks handed Harmoush over to the Syrian secret police, CNN reported Thursday.
Turkey continues to shelter about 7,500 Syrians at six camps in the border province of Hatay, the Foreign Ministry said, adding that 10,600 people had returned home. It renewed a call on Damascus to end a bloody crackdown on anti-regime demonstrations and initiate reform.
"Harmoush was an ordinary colonel before he led the rebel movement in Syrian army. He was supported by the Muslim Brotherhood. As the Syrian army started to look for him, he fled to Turkey," a former Syrian MP and intelligence official who declined to give his name told the Hürriyet Daily News on Friday.
According to the official, Harmoush was delivering money he had collected from the Muslim Brotherhood to the Syrian opposition and was entering and leaving Syria frequently for this reason. As Syrian forces increased the border checks, they caught him in an ambush at the Syria-Turkey border.
الجاسوس الإسرائيلي أنعيم: جندت للعمل لصالح الموساد وزودتهم بمعلومات سهلت اغتيال الشهيد عماد مغنية ومعلومات عن اللاذقية وسكانها وميناءي اللاذقية وطرطوس
Israeli spy Ane'im: recruited to work for the Mossad and provided them with information facilitated the assassination of Imad Mughniyeh and information on population, and Latakia ports of Latakia and Tartous
http://www.sana.sy/ara/336/2011/09/18/369934.htm
http://www.sana.sy/eng/337/2011/09/18/369945.htm
Sep 18, 2011
He stressed that Saudi companies in Syria is under heavy losses .. Saudi official: paralysis of the Saudi exports to Syria
http://www.aksalser.com/index.php?page=view_news&id=f37e04315b7fb6bce98673ca04fe8de7&ar=222948443
Saturday - September 17 - 2011 - 9:33:18
An official in the Saudi Arabian Business Council - Syrian Saudi investments in Syria suffered heavy losses in general, as a result of recent events experienced by the country, pointing out that the recent European sanctions have caused direct damage to Saudi companies contracting with the Syrian government, led by energy companies.
According to the newspaper "al-Hayat", the Deputy Chairman of the Board "Mohammed Qaraawi" that the majority of companies that have contracts directly with the Syrian government has been significantly influenced and affected by the results of the economic sanctions imposed by America and Europe to that government, as represented on the contracts of energy and electricity, which carried out by Saudi investors in Syria.
"The Qaraawi": "security situation and political crisis in Syria also affected in all of Saudi investments there, and caused damage to low operating and stop sales of all tourism projects and agricultural and industrial, although the rates of damage varied in each sector from the other, cement factories stopped, and the draft products food and agricultural stopped, and we are now in the process of counting the damage to an investment. "
The "Qaraawi" to hit the semi-paralysis of Saudi exports to Damascus and Beirut during the recent period, as it stops the export of all food products, petrochemicals and all the goods there, because of the unrest and the disruption of road traffic to Syria.
The Vice President of Business Council, Saudi Arabia - Syria that, despite the political crisis, dealing with the Syrian government with Saudi investors still good, and did not spare them any ill-treatment, at the time committed itself to these investors have their places, and did not fly one of them to Syria after crisis.
The volume of Saudi investments in Syria is estimated at $ 2.5 billion, is concentrated in manufacturing, food and tourism, with nearly two thousand jobs.
Turkey denies soldier's rendition
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/n.php?n=turkey-denies-soldier8217s-rendition-2011-09-16
Friday, September 16, 2011
ANKARA – Hürriyet Daily News
Turkey has denied extraditing Syrian refugees to Damascus or rejecting those seeking asylum, dismissing such allegations as "disinformation activities originating from Syria in the face of its internal problems."
"It is out of the question for Turkey to send any Syrian citizen back to Syria or to another country under the current circumstances," a Foreign Ministry statement said Friday, emphasizing that "allegations concerning Syrian citizen Hussein Harmoush are baseless."
Harmoush, a lieutenant colonel, was the first military officer to publicly declare his defection from the Syrian army in June, after which he led the "Brigade of Free Officers," a group of dozens of officers who have deserted the regime.
Opposition sources in Damascus said Harmoush was recently captured in Turkey by Syrian intelligence agents and brought back to Syria, Agence France-Presse reported.
The officer appeared on Syrian state television Thursday, claiming he returned willingly. He denied ever receiving orders to shoot civilians and repeated the government line that armed gangs were killing them. Omar al-Muqdad, a prominent Syrian opposition activist now in exile in Turkey applying for refugee status, said the Turks handed Harmoush over to the Syrian secret police, CNN reported Thursday.
Turkey continues to shelter about 7,500 Syrians at six camps in the border province of Hatay, the Foreign Ministry said, adding that 10,600 people had returned home. It renewed a call on Damascus to end a bloody crackdown on anti-regime demonstrations and initiate reform.
"Harmoush was an ordinary colonel before he led the rebel movement in Syrian army. He was supported by the Muslim Brotherhood. As the Syrian army started to look for him, he fled to Turkey," a former Syrian MP and intelligence official who declined to give his name told the Hürriyet Daily News on Friday.
According to the official, Harmoush was delivering money he had collected from the Muslim Brotherhood to the Syrian opposition and was entering and leaving Syria frequently for this reason. As Syrian forces increased the border checks, they caught him in an ambush at the Syria-Turkey border.
الجاسوس الإسرائيلي أنعيم: جندت للعمل لصالح الموساد وزودتهم بمعلومات سهلت اغتيال الشهيد عماد مغنية ومعلومات عن اللاذقية وسكانها وميناءي اللاذقية وطرطوس
Israeli spy Ane'im: recruited to work for the Mossad and provided them with information facilitated the assassination of Imad Mughniyeh and information on population, and Latakia ports of Latakia and Tartous
http://www.sana.sy/ara/336/2011/09/18/369934.htm
http://www.sana.sy/eng/337/2011/09/18/369945.htm
Sep 18, 2011
Sep 17 Economy
Syria Comes Third in Arab Region…888.000 Tons of Citrus Production in Lattakia
سورية الثالثة عربياً بإنتاجه.. 888 ألف طن تقديرات إنتاج الحمضيات باللاذقية والمعاناة تتركز حول آليات التسويق
http://www.sana.sy/eng/24/2011/09/17/369819.htm
http://www.sana.sy/ara/7/2011/09/17/369815.htm
أكثر من 97 مليون شجرة زيتون في سورية وتوقعات أن يصل إنتاجها إلى مليون طن لهذا الموسم
More than 97 million olive trees in Syria and expectations that production up to one million tons for this season
http://www.sana.sy/ara/7/2011/09/17/369821.htm
حصاد ثمانية أشهر : 96.5 مليار ليرة عجز الميزان التجاري السوري
Trade balance of eight months: 96.5 billion pounds deficit CBS
http://www.aksalser.com/index.php?page=view_news&id=253d059dd38b3585473a430fa4bd1673&ar=740830902
Saturday - September 17 - 2011 - 12:22:32
Did not exceed the Syrian exports during the eight months the first year to four million tons of various goods equivalent to 156 billion Syrian pounds, and in return the total Imports from abroad during the same period to 8.4 million tons of cargo a total value of 252.55 billion pounds, if you include The difference between the value of imports and exports becomes a deficit in the trade balance 96.5 billion Syrian pounds.
As the value of the total Syrian exports in the first quarter of this year to 56.365 billion pounds, while the export value reached in the second quarter to 57 billion pounds, while the total recorded value of the seventh and eighth months of exports amount to 42.6 billion pounds.
According to Al-Watan newspaper, record our balance of trade of some important numbers in the current year despite all the difficulties and the days of pitch-black that went through our home, and as evidence of the recovery and return to normal almost there was a rise in the number of Syrian exports during the eighth month of the year from its predecessor rose to 26.661 billion lira.
In contrast, total Syrian imports from the various needs and goods in the seventh and eighth months of this year, 2.66 million tons with a total value amounted to 61.753 billion lira.
On return to the numbers the Central Bureau of Statistics, we find that the deficit this year, and that the improvement in part, but he remains a continuation of the inability of the past years, and the figures of trade balance in 2009 tended for the benefit of imports deficit of up to 225.8 billion lira, the value of imports in that year 714.216 billion Syrian pounds, while exports amounted to 488.33 billion Syrian pounds.
The figures show that there is a big drop in exports and a decline in imports in 2008 was the value of exports in that year to 707.798 billion, which fell to 488 billion and the value of imports 839 419 000 000 liras, and thus the overall level of foreign trade has decreased from 2008.
If the figures were announced by several points on the Syrian exports for the year 2010, amounting to 141 billion lira, the trade deficit is still going Exports declined in 2009, up to 219 billion pounds, while imports fell up to 125 billion pounds with about 50% of the level of decline in exports.
جولة على مشاريع مؤسسة الآغا خان للتنمية بحلب ... وضع خطوات تنفيذية لإطلاق مشاريع حديقة قنسرين والسراي وحمام يلبغا
A tour of the projects of the Aga Khan Development Aleppo ... Development of operational steps to launch projects and Qinnisreen Garden and Serail and Hammam Yalbugha
http://jamahir.alwehda.gov.sy/_View_news2.asp?FileName=31149862820110917222834
http://backupurl.com/ii5m6r
Sunday 18/09/2011
سورية الثالثة عربياً بإنتاجه.. 888 ألف طن تقديرات إنتاج الحمضيات باللاذقية والمعاناة تتركز حول آليات التسويق
http://www.sana.sy/eng/24/2011/09/17/369819.htm
http://www.sana.sy/ara/7/2011/09/17/369815.htm
أكثر من 97 مليون شجرة زيتون في سورية وتوقعات أن يصل إنتاجها إلى مليون طن لهذا الموسم
More than 97 million olive trees in Syria and expectations that production up to one million tons for this season
http://www.sana.sy/ara/7/2011/09/17/369821.htm
حصاد ثمانية أشهر : 96.5 مليار ليرة عجز الميزان التجاري السوري
Trade balance of eight months: 96.5 billion pounds deficit CBS
http://www.aksalser.com/index.php?page=view_news&id=253d059dd38b3585473a430fa4bd1673&ar=740830902
Saturday - September 17 - 2011 - 12:22:32
Did not exceed the Syrian exports during the eight months the first year to four million tons of various goods equivalent to 156 billion Syrian pounds, and in return the total Imports from abroad during the same period to 8.4 million tons of cargo a total value of 252.55 billion pounds, if you include The difference between the value of imports and exports becomes a deficit in the trade balance 96.5 billion Syrian pounds.
As the value of the total Syrian exports in the first quarter of this year to 56.365 billion pounds, while the export value reached in the second quarter to 57 billion pounds, while the total recorded value of the seventh and eighth months of exports amount to 42.6 billion pounds.
According to Al-Watan newspaper, record our balance of trade of some important numbers in the current year despite all the difficulties and the days of pitch-black that went through our home, and as evidence of the recovery and return to normal almost there was a rise in the number of Syrian exports during the eighth month of the year from its predecessor rose to 26.661 billion lira.
In contrast, total Syrian imports from the various needs and goods in the seventh and eighth months of this year, 2.66 million tons with a total value amounted to 61.753 billion lira.
On return to the numbers the Central Bureau of Statistics, we find that the deficit this year, and that the improvement in part, but he remains a continuation of the inability of the past years, and the figures of trade balance in 2009 tended for the benefit of imports deficit of up to 225.8 billion lira, the value of imports in that year 714.216 billion Syrian pounds, while exports amounted to 488.33 billion Syrian pounds.
The figures show that there is a big drop in exports and a decline in imports in 2008 was the value of exports in that year to 707.798 billion, which fell to 488 billion and the value of imports 839 419 000 000 liras, and thus the overall level of foreign trade has decreased from 2008.
If the figures were announced by several points on the Syrian exports for the year 2010, amounting to 141 billion lira, the trade deficit is still going Exports declined in 2009, up to 219 billion pounds, while imports fell up to 125 billion pounds with about 50% of the level of decline in exports.
جولة على مشاريع مؤسسة الآغا خان للتنمية بحلب ... وضع خطوات تنفيذية لإطلاق مشاريع حديقة قنسرين والسراي وحمام يلبغا
A tour of the projects of the Aga Khan Development Aleppo ... Development of operational steps to launch projects and Qinnisreen Garden and Serail and Hammam Yalbugha
http://jamahir.alwehda.gov.sy/_View_news2.asp?FileName=31149862820110917222834
http://backupurl.com/ii5m6r
Sunday 18/09/2011
Sep 17 International
Russian Federation Council Delegation Starts Visit to Syria
وفد المجلس الاتحادي الروسي يبدأ زيارة إلى سورية: عدم قبول التدخل بشؤون الدول والتعاون لدفع الحوار الوطني في سورية
http://www.sana.sy/eng/21/2011/09/17/369887.htm
http://www.sana.sy/ara/336/2011/09/17/369878.htm
Leave Syria alone –Russian official
http://english.ruvr.ru/2011/09/17/56314372.html
أيغور بانارين عميد الأكاديمية الدبلوماسية التابعة لوزارة الخارجية الروسية: الإعلام الأسود يلعب دوراً تخريبياً في الشرق الأوسط لتقسيم الدول العربية وإدخال الإرهابيين إلى الدول العلمانية
Panarin: Black Media plays a subversive role in the Middle East to divide the Arab states and terrorists to enter the secular states
http://www.sana.sy/ara/3/2011/09/17/369907.htm
September 17, .2011
Moscow, (SANA) -
Igor Panarin said Dean of the Diplomatic Academy of the Russian Foreign Ministry .. The BBC plays a role of a Trojan horse to sabotage the Middle East and the destruction of civilized secular states to divide the Arab countries and the introduction of elements of terrorism and ignite the bloody civil wars.
Panarin said in an interview with Russia Today channel .. The largest website owner, who spoke about the largest mass killings and provocations in Syria and introduced himself as a Syrian turned out to be an American and I expect to be employed by intelligence agencies, as the site misled many information technology and ingenious way.
Panarin said .. The Americans are the first to introduce the media as a special kind of war, the Dallas head of the CIA first used the word media in his surrender hidden in 1960, pointing out that in 1992 appeared for the first time a close ideological of the General Staff in America called the media war and used by the U.S. United lethal weapon for nearly 20 years against the various countries of the world.
He Panarin .. What we see today in the Middle East black media distorted information across the entire industry by the satellite channels that work on the ignition and the escalation of the situation and undermine it in Syria, Libya and Egypt as well.
The Panarin said that the BBC with the satellite channels are known and the Wikileaks site and play an inflammatory large and used for the social communications media such as Facebook and recent events have appeared a large infusion of media promotional black, which is clear when you do not understand from the filming and where .. Many of the photos did not pick up in Syria or Libya, but fabricated and this in itself a violation of human rights as well as to provide figures distorted and untrue on the number of victims.
Panarin said that the black media liar who distorts and misrepresents the facts and actually a vulgar and distorted and tasks carried out by these channels to incite hatred, violence and terrorism and to find events and fake these steps sabotage against Syria and Libya will be the beginning of the later stages against Russia, China, India and Brazil, the so-called group Brics.
He Panarin What happened in Uzbekistan is similar what is happening in Syria and Libya, where she helped the U.S. intelligence and Western terrorists to escape from Afghanistan to Uzbekistan and the first thing the president Uzbek Islam Karimov has done was closure of all events and activities of the agency, the BBC and CNN channels and other hostile and thus deprived the terrorists of Media Support and events put down very quickly.
Panarin said .. Been smuggling terrorists from other countries and bringing them into Syria, Libya, but the potential now to close the activities of satellite channels and networks information pointing to the need for information networks, especially in the targeted countries to communicate its views to the people and at the same time disrupt the strong influence that comes from abroad and find the key to lock into streams of information tendentious.
Panarin pointed out that the strike against Syria and Libya to Russia as directed Syria since 2006 a member of the Euro-Asian alliance so the strike directed against NATO, and we devote all our efforts to help the Syrian people to withstand the specter of the media war.
التايمز: حان الوقت لاستهداف دمشق .. وأردوغان هو الحل
The Times: It's time to target Damascus .. Erdogan and is the solution
http://www.aksalser.com/index.php?page=view_news&id=fb9bd9d74818a7fa0c24168a401795c4&ar=368633166
Saturday - September 17 - 2011 - 9:08:39
Under the title "It's time to target Damascus," the Times editorial calling for the West that "enhance the penalties for his effective measures to isolate the Syrian leadership."
The Times says that the risk of Britain and France of supporting the opposition in Libya back on the two honored in Tripoli and Benghazi and all over Libya and the Arab world.
She adds that after the Libya, it is time to focus on Syria.
Acknowledges that the paper's editorial in Syria's military intervention unlikely, but believes that condemnation, sanctions and isolate Syria a sponsor to bring down the system.
The Times believes that the impact of sanctions has so far not mentioned.
And calls for the Times in an editorial that translates to speak about sanctions measures to fill gaps in order to yield the desired result of sanctions which bring down the system.
The Times says that the pressure on Syria from the region appeared to be stronger than the west, and hit the example of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
She adds that Erdogan did not criticize the Syrian regime, but he demanded that Iran cease its support for Syria.
مسؤول أمني فرنسي رفيع : فرنسا خسرت مبادئها وشرفها ومصداقيتها في ليبيا
Senior French security official: France lost its principles and honor and credibility in Libya
http://www.aksalser.com/index.php?page=view_news&id=c5a35329434df1c3383a9d5a31df9303&ar=184439064
وفد المجلس الاتحادي الروسي يبدأ زيارة إلى سورية: عدم قبول التدخل بشؤون الدول والتعاون لدفع الحوار الوطني في سورية
http://www.sana.sy/eng/21/2011/09/17/369887.htm
http://www.sana.sy/ara/336/2011/09/17/369878.htm
Leave Syria alone –Russian official
http://english.ruvr.ru/2011/09/17/56314372.html
أيغور بانارين عميد الأكاديمية الدبلوماسية التابعة لوزارة الخارجية الروسية: الإعلام الأسود يلعب دوراً تخريبياً في الشرق الأوسط لتقسيم الدول العربية وإدخال الإرهابيين إلى الدول العلمانية
Panarin: Black Media plays a subversive role in the Middle East to divide the Arab states and terrorists to enter the secular states
http://www.sana.sy/ara/3/2011/09/17/369907.htm
September 17, .2011
Moscow, (SANA) -
Igor Panarin said Dean of the Diplomatic Academy of the Russian Foreign Ministry .. The BBC plays a role of a Trojan horse to sabotage the Middle East and the destruction of civilized secular states to divide the Arab countries and the introduction of elements of terrorism and ignite the bloody civil wars.
Panarin said in an interview with Russia Today channel .. The largest website owner, who spoke about the largest mass killings and provocations in Syria and introduced himself as a Syrian turned out to be an American and I expect to be employed by intelligence agencies, as the site misled many information technology and ingenious way.
Panarin said .. The Americans are the first to introduce the media as a special kind of war, the Dallas head of the CIA first used the word media in his surrender hidden in 1960, pointing out that in 1992 appeared for the first time a close ideological of the General Staff in America called the media war and used by the U.S. United lethal weapon for nearly 20 years against the various countries of the world.
He Panarin .. What we see today in the Middle East black media distorted information across the entire industry by the satellite channels that work on the ignition and the escalation of the situation and undermine it in Syria, Libya and Egypt as well.
The Panarin said that the BBC with the satellite channels are known and the Wikileaks site and play an inflammatory large and used for the social communications media such as Facebook and recent events have appeared a large infusion of media promotional black, which is clear when you do not understand from the filming and where .. Many of the photos did not pick up in Syria or Libya, but fabricated and this in itself a violation of human rights as well as to provide figures distorted and untrue on the number of victims.
Panarin said that the black media liar who distorts and misrepresents the facts and actually a vulgar and distorted and tasks carried out by these channels to incite hatred, violence and terrorism and to find events and fake these steps sabotage against Syria and Libya will be the beginning of the later stages against Russia, China, India and Brazil, the so-called group Brics.
He Panarin What happened in Uzbekistan is similar what is happening in Syria and Libya, where she helped the U.S. intelligence and Western terrorists to escape from Afghanistan to Uzbekistan and the first thing the president Uzbek Islam Karimov has done was closure of all events and activities of the agency, the BBC and CNN channels and other hostile and thus deprived the terrorists of Media Support and events put down very quickly.
Panarin said .. Been smuggling terrorists from other countries and bringing them into Syria, Libya, but the potential now to close the activities of satellite channels and networks information pointing to the need for information networks, especially in the targeted countries to communicate its views to the people and at the same time disrupt the strong influence that comes from abroad and find the key to lock into streams of information tendentious.
Panarin pointed out that the strike against Syria and Libya to Russia as directed Syria since 2006 a member of the Euro-Asian alliance so the strike directed against NATO, and we devote all our efforts to help the Syrian people to withstand the specter of the media war.
التايمز: حان الوقت لاستهداف دمشق .. وأردوغان هو الحل
The Times: It's time to target Damascus .. Erdogan and is the solution
http://www.aksalser.com/index.php?page=view_news&id=fb9bd9d74818a7fa0c24168a401795c4&ar=368633166
Saturday - September 17 - 2011 - 9:08:39
Under the title "It's time to target Damascus," the Times editorial calling for the West that "enhance the penalties for his effective measures to isolate the Syrian leadership."
The Times says that the risk of Britain and France of supporting the opposition in Libya back on the two honored in Tripoli and Benghazi and all over Libya and the Arab world.
She adds that after the Libya, it is time to focus on Syria.
Acknowledges that the paper's editorial in Syria's military intervention unlikely, but believes that condemnation, sanctions and isolate Syria a sponsor to bring down the system.
The Times believes that the impact of sanctions has so far not mentioned.
And calls for the Times in an editorial that translates to speak about sanctions measures to fill gaps in order to yield the desired result of sanctions which bring down the system.
The Times says that the pressure on Syria from the region appeared to be stronger than the west, and hit the example of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
She adds that Erdogan did not criticize the Syrian regime, but he demanded that Iran cease its support for Syria.
مسؤول أمني فرنسي رفيع : فرنسا خسرت مبادئها وشرفها ومصداقيتها في ليبيا
Senior French security official: France lost its principles and honor and credibility in Libya
http://www.aksalser.com/index.php?page=view_news&id=c5a35329434df1c3383a9d5a31df9303&ar=184439064
Sep 17 Central government
الحكومة تعيد أحياء قانون "من أين لك هذا؟"
Government revives the law of "Where did you get this?" (asset disclosure law of public employees)
http://www.aksalser.com/index.php?page=view_news&id=5dfab15f4be557892f9e325783c089b1&ar=709333927
Government revives the law of "Where did you get this?" (asset disclosure law of public employees)
http://www.aksalser.com/index.php?page=view_news&id=5dfab15f4be557892f9e325783c089b1&ar=709333927
Sep 17 Pro-government, National dialogue
Participants in National Dialogue Call for New Economic Policies, Following up on Issued Decrees
جلسات الحوار الوطني بالمحافظات: تعزيز الديمقراطية والتعددية والاستجابة لمطالب المواطنين وتعزيز الوحدة الوطنية واستقلالية القرار الوطني
http://www.sana.sy/eng/21/2011/09/17/369906.htm
http://www.sana.sy/ara/2/2011/09/17/369803.htm
تزامناً مع عقد اجتماع للمعارضة داخل سوريا .. حسن عبد العظيم : نرفض التسلح والصراعات الداخلية و التدخل الخارجي
Coincide with a meeting of opposition in Syria .. Hassan Abdel-Azim reject arms and internal conflict and external intervention
http://www.aksalser.com/index.php?page=view_news&id=88ab81288434ccc3ab7e9cdca82b49d6&ar=323277895
Saturday - September 17 - 2011 - 9:36:45
Syrian opposition meets to boost protests (inside Syria)
http://arabnews.com/middleeast/article502959.ece
جلسات الحوار الوطني بالمحافظات: تعزيز الديمقراطية والتعددية والاستجابة لمطالب المواطنين وتعزيز الوحدة الوطنية واستقلالية القرار الوطني
http://www.sana.sy/eng/21/2011/09/17/369906.htm
http://www.sana.sy/ara/2/2011/09/17/369803.htm
تزامناً مع عقد اجتماع للمعارضة داخل سوريا .. حسن عبد العظيم : نرفض التسلح والصراعات الداخلية و التدخل الخارجي
Coincide with a meeting of opposition in Syria .. Hassan Abdel-Azim reject arms and internal conflict and external intervention
http://www.aksalser.com/index.php?page=view_news&id=88ab81288434ccc3ab7e9cdca82b49d6&ar=323277895
Saturday - September 17 - 2011 - 9:36:45
Syrian opposition meets to boost protests (inside Syria)
http://arabnews.com/middleeast/article502959.ece
Sep 17 Anti-government
داعياً إلى استصدار قرار أممي ضد سورية ..المعارض رضوان زيادة : لا أحد يدعمنا لأننا لا نملك النفط
Calling for a UN resolution against Syria .. Radwan Ziyadah opposition: No one supports us because we do not have oil
http://www.aksalser.com/index.php?page=view_news&id=313737292c66c60910211fdce4b084da&ar=809765548
Calling for a UN resolution against Syria .. Radwan Ziyadah opposition: No one supports us because we do not have oil
http://www.aksalser.com/index.php?page=view_news&id=313737292c66c60910211fdce4b084da&ar=809765548
Sep 17 Incidents
Syrian official media rejects reports on Friday protests
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2011-09/17/c_131143286.htm
English.news.cn 2011-09-17 05:41:45
DAMASCUS, Sept. 16 (Xinhua) -- Doha-based al-Jazeera TV and some other satellite networks said protests erupted Friday in several Syrian cities, including the country's capital Damascus and cities in the provinces of Idlib, Homs and Hama. . .
At least 36 people were killed by gunfire of the Syrian security forces, the channels said, adding that 16 of them were killed in the northern Idlib province.
Syria's official news agency SANA denied the reports, saying that the only major incident on Friday was an attack on the law-enforcement forces in the Busra al-Hareer area in the southern city of Daraa, which killed one officer and injured four others.
Syria's demonstrations wanes, Friday "the calmest": official media
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2011-09/17/c_131144261.htm
English.news.cn 2011-09-17 17:40:52
DAMASCUS, Sept. 17 (Xinhua) -- The demonstrations in Syria are waning as it was "absolutely the calmest" on Friday with no killing of civilians, the government-run Al-Thawra newspaper said Saturday.
Only a sergeant was killed and four law-enforcement agents were wounded by the gunshots of "terrorist" groups in the southern province of Daraa, the paper said, adding that a number of assailants were captured.
In the same context, a media source dismissed late Friday as "absolutely baseless" reports broadcasted by some Arab TV channels claiming that a number of civilians were killed during Friday's demonstrations in various Syrian provinces.
The source told Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) that such reports came in the context of the "campaign of provocation and facts falsification" launched by those channels since the eruption of protests in Syria in mid-March.
Doha-based al-Jazeera TV and some other satellite networks said protests erupted Friday in several Syrian cities, including the country's capital Damascus and cities in the provinces of Idlib, Homs and Hama, leaving at least 46 people killed by gunfire of Syrian security forces.
Meanwhile, Al-Thawra said a number of armed groups, who had took part in sabotaging acts, have turned themselves in to the Syrian authorities in the central province of Homs following the airing of an interview with an army defector.
Syria's official TV aired Thursday confessions made by the recently-arrested defected officer, Lt. Col. Hussein Harmoush, who was detained during "a special operation" in northern Idlib province.
سفير سوريا في أمريكا : تقديرات الأمم المتحدة حول عدد القتلى في سوريا "أكاذيب مفضوحة"
Syria's ambassador in America: the United Nations estimates about the number of dead in Syria, "outright lies"
http://www.aksalser.com/index.php?page=view_news&id=2e32099cdee9679b71ae8df08f710b1b&ar=698543847
Saturday - September 17 - 2011 - 14:25:21
Law-Enforcement Member Martyred, Several Injured in Two Ambushes by Armed Terrorist Groups in Idleb and Homs (Khan al-Shaikhoun, al-Qusair)
استشهاد عنصر من حفظ النظام وإصابة آخرين في كمينين نصبتهما المجموعات الإرهابية المسلحة بخان شيخون و القصير
http://www.sana.sy/eng/337/2011/09/17/369886.htm
http://www.sana.sy/ara/336/2011/09/17/369724.htm
One Martyr, 6 Wounded in Armed Ambush against Army in Douma
http://www.sana.sy/eng/21/2011/09/17/369684.htm
Family of Lt. Col. Rahia Refute Allegations of Biased Channels Regarding His Death (al-Jazeerah fabrication)
http://www.sana.sy/eng/337/2011/09/17/369863.htm
السفير : تهريب السلاح إلى سوريا تطور من أسلحة فردية إلى متوسطة وقاذفات
al-Safir: Syrian arms smuggling to the development of medium weapons and RPGs
http://www.aksalser.com/index.php?page=view_news&id=ce478fe716536ff4acc69d9feba5dfed&ar=337606098
Saturday - September 17 - 2011 - 9:39:46
Turkey denies soldier's rendition (Husain Harmoush)
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/n.php?n=turkey-denies-soldier8217s-rendition-2011-09-16
Friday, September 16, 2011
ANKARA – Hürriyet Daily News
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2011-09/17/c_131143286.htm
English.news.cn 2011-09-17 05:41:45
DAMASCUS, Sept. 16 (Xinhua) -- Doha-based al-Jazeera TV and some other satellite networks said protests erupted Friday in several Syrian cities, including the country's capital Damascus and cities in the provinces of Idlib, Homs and Hama. . .
At least 36 people were killed by gunfire of the Syrian security forces, the channels said, adding that 16 of them were killed in the northern Idlib province.
Syria's official news agency SANA denied the reports, saying that the only major incident on Friday was an attack on the law-enforcement forces in the Busra al-Hareer area in the southern city of Daraa, which killed one officer and injured four others.
Syria's demonstrations wanes, Friday "the calmest": official media
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2011-09/17/c_131144261.htm
English.news.cn 2011-09-17 17:40:52
DAMASCUS, Sept. 17 (Xinhua) -- The demonstrations in Syria are waning as it was "absolutely the calmest" on Friday with no killing of civilians, the government-run Al-Thawra newspaper said Saturday.
Only a sergeant was killed and four law-enforcement agents were wounded by the gunshots of "terrorist" groups in the southern province of Daraa, the paper said, adding that a number of assailants were captured.
In the same context, a media source dismissed late Friday as "absolutely baseless" reports broadcasted by some Arab TV channels claiming that a number of civilians were killed during Friday's demonstrations in various Syrian provinces.
The source told Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) that such reports came in the context of the "campaign of provocation and facts falsification" launched by those channels since the eruption of protests in Syria in mid-March.
Doha-based al-Jazeera TV and some other satellite networks said protests erupted Friday in several Syrian cities, including the country's capital Damascus and cities in the provinces of Idlib, Homs and Hama, leaving at least 46 people killed by gunfire of Syrian security forces.
Meanwhile, Al-Thawra said a number of armed groups, who had took part in sabotaging acts, have turned themselves in to the Syrian authorities in the central province of Homs following the airing of an interview with an army defector.
Syria's official TV aired Thursday confessions made by the recently-arrested defected officer, Lt. Col. Hussein Harmoush, who was detained during "a special operation" in northern Idlib province.
سفير سوريا في أمريكا : تقديرات الأمم المتحدة حول عدد القتلى في سوريا "أكاذيب مفضوحة"
Syria's ambassador in America: the United Nations estimates about the number of dead in Syria, "outright lies"
http://www.aksalser.com/index.php?page=view_news&id=2e32099cdee9679b71ae8df08f710b1b&ar=698543847
Saturday - September 17 - 2011 - 14:25:21
Law-Enforcement Member Martyred, Several Injured in Two Ambushes by Armed Terrorist Groups in Idleb and Homs (Khan al-Shaikhoun, al-Qusair)
استشهاد عنصر من حفظ النظام وإصابة آخرين في كمينين نصبتهما المجموعات الإرهابية المسلحة بخان شيخون و القصير
http://www.sana.sy/eng/337/2011/09/17/369886.htm
http://www.sana.sy/ara/336/2011/09/17/369724.htm
One Martyr, 6 Wounded in Armed Ambush against Army in Douma
http://www.sana.sy/eng/21/2011/09/17/369684.htm
Family of Lt. Col. Rahia Refute Allegations of Biased Channels Regarding His Death (al-Jazeerah fabrication)
http://www.sana.sy/eng/337/2011/09/17/369863.htm
السفير : تهريب السلاح إلى سوريا تطور من أسلحة فردية إلى متوسطة وقاذفات
al-Safir: Syrian arms smuggling to the development of medium weapons and RPGs
http://www.aksalser.com/index.php?page=view_news&id=ce478fe716536ff4acc69d9feba5dfed&ar=337606098
Saturday - September 17 - 2011 - 9:39:46
Turkey denies soldier's rendition (Husain Harmoush)
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/n.php?n=turkey-denies-soldier8217s-rendition-2011-09-16
Friday, September 16, 2011
ANKARA – Hürriyet Daily News
2011/09/16
Zionists are planning a revolution in Algeria on Sep 17
Algeria links uprising call to Camp David peace accords
http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=48072
Middle East Online
2011-09-15
Interior minister says foreigners, Zionists behind call for anti-government protests this weekend.
Coincidence or on purpose?
ALGIERS - Foreign parties linked to Zionists are behind an online campaign urging Algerians to stage anti-government protests this weekend, Algeria's interior minister told local media Thursday.
Since late August, a call for an "Algerian revolution on September 17, 2011" has circulated on Facebook encouraging young people to flood the streets in opposition to President Abdelaziz Bouteflika's regime.
"Had it been people inside (the country), we would have exposed and arrested them, but the clues point us toward foreign parties in relation with the Zionist entity," Interior Minister Dahou Ould Kablia told the Ennahar daily newspaper.
The "proof", according to Ould Kablia, is that date chosen for the uprising is the anniversary of the Camp David peace accords, signed by Egypt and Israel on September 17, 1978.
The minister further noted that the massacres of Palestinian refugees carried out by an Israeli-allied Christian militia at Sabra and Shatila in Lebanon happened on the 16th and 17th of September, 1982.
"The choice of September 17 is no accident for the enemies of the Arab people," Ould Kablia told the paper.
"The calls are failing to elicit any response and there won't be any demonstrations or any trouble on this date," he said.
Protests in Algeria, inspired by uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt, intensified at the start of the year, but were effectively suppressed by the government.
Since then scores of political and social movements have emerged across the country, prompting Bouteflika to create a presidential panel that is currently weighing reforms.
Since the holy fasting month of Ramadan ended in August, riots broke out over insufficient housing.
http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=48072
Middle East Online
2011-09-15
Interior minister says foreigners, Zionists behind call for anti-government protests this weekend.
Coincidence or on purpose?
ALGIERS - Foreign parties linked to Zionists are behind an online campaign urging Algerians to stage anti-government protests this weekend, Algeria's interior minister told local media Thursday.
Since late August, a call for an "Algerian revolution on September 17, 2011" has circulated on Facebook encouraging young people to flood the streets in opposition to President Abdelaziz Bouteflika's regime.
"Had it been people inside (the country), we would have exposed and arrested them, but the clues point us toward foreign parties in relation with the Zionist entity," Interior Minister Dahou Ould Kablia told the Ennahar daily newspaper.
The "proof", according to Ould Kablia, is that date chosen for the uprising is the anniversary of the Camp David peace accords, signed by Egypt and Israel on September 17, 1978.
The minister further noted that the massacres of Palestinian refugees carried out by an Israeli-allied Christian militia at Sabra and Shatila in Lebanon happened on the 16th and 17th of September, 1982.
"The choice of September 17 is no accident for the enemies of the Arab people," Ould Kablia told the paper.
"The calls are failing to elicit any response and there won't be any demonstrations or any trouble on this date," he said.
Protests in Algeria, inspired by uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt, intensified at the start of the year, but were effectively suppressed by the government.
Since then scores of political and social movements have emerged across the country, prompting Bouteflika to create a presidential panel that is currently weighing reforms.
Since the holy fasting month of Ramadan ended in August, riots broke out over insufficient housing.
Sep 16 Economy
يوفر آلاف فرص العمل ويساهم في الاكتفاء الذاتي.. قطاع الإنتاج الحيواني في درعا يعاني ارتفاع أسعار الأعلاف وقصور السياسات التسويقية
Provides thousands of jobs and contribute to self-sufficiency .. Livestock sector in the shield suffers high feed prices and inadequate marketing policies (general description about dairy farming in Daraa)
http://www.sana.sy/ara/355/2011/09/16/369712.htm
تنفيذ 90% من صيانة طريق حمص- طرطوس- اللاذقية
Implementation of 90% of the Homs road maintenance - Tartous - Lattakia
http://www.aksalser.com/index.php?page=view_news&id=3e6746d8113e7580d918efdfa406c1b2&ar=268064067
العقوبات الأميركية تهدد المواقع الإلكترونية السورية
U.S. sanctions threaten Syrian sites
http://www.alwatanonline.com/economy_news.php?kind=-1&id=690
http://backupurl.com/qyu42t
Provides thousands of jobs and contribute to self-sufficiency .. Livestock sector in the shield suffers high feed prices and inadequate marketing policies (general description about dairy farming in Daraa)
http://www.sana.sy/ara/355/2011/09/16/369712.htm
تنفيذ 90% من صيانة طريق حمص- طرطوس- اللاذقية
Implementation of 90% of the Homs road maintenance - Tartous - Lattakia
http://www.aksalser.com/index.php?page=view_news&id=3e6746d8113e7580d918efdfa406c1b2&ar=268064067
العقوبات الأميركية تهدد المواقع الإلكترونية السورية
U.S. sanctions threaten Syrian sites
http://www.alwatanonline.com/economy_news.php?kind=-1&id=690
http://backupurl.com/qyu42t
Sep 16 Regional
الرئيس اللبناني السابق إميل لحود: خط المقاومة المتمثل بلبنان وسورية ليس قابلاً للاختراق
Former Lebanese President Emile Lahoud: the line of resistance of Lebanon and Syria is not capable of penetrating
http://www.sana.sy/ara/3/2011/09/16/369685.htm
حطيط ينتقد بيان وزراء الخارجية العرب حول الأحداث ب سورية .
Hoteit a statement criticizing the Arab foreign ministers on the events to Syria. (Statements from pro-Syrian figures in Lebanon about Arab League, etc.)
http://www.sana.sy/ara/3/2011/09/16/369703.htm
لبنان : الأحداث في سوريا تضرّ بالسياحة والتجارة عبر الحدود
Lebanon: the events in Syria harm to tourism and cross-border trade
http://www.aksalser.com/index.php?page=view_news&id=1a573d2434637df9c55c245ba7f08ab4&ar=683259448
The Governor of the Bank of Lebanon, Riad Salameh, said . . . that the "bank deposits in Lebanon increased by about 4.5 billion dollars during the past few months," expected "growth in deposits, about 7 percent in 2011."
In response to a question on whether the deposit growth is partly due to flows from Syria, he said, "No, is essentially normal flows that we receive from Lebanese expatriates, did not notice significant transfers from Syria to Lebanon."
Erdogan to visit Iran
http://www.irna.ir/ENNewsShow.aspx?NID=30566687&SRCH=1
Ankara, Sept 16, IRNA – Turkish Prime Minister Recep Teyyip Erdogan will pay an official visit to Iran, according to Turkish news sources.
"I plan visiting Iran in the near future," Erdogan told reporters during his Thursday visit to Tunisia. Soon I will send Hakan [Fidan, undersecretary of the National Intelligence Organization (M?T)] to Tehran to hold meetings with Iranian officials."
He said Turkey is in talks with Iran on regional developments, Syria issues and campaign against terrorism.
Turkish PM Erdogan says Syrian oppressors won't survive (just a performance of a politician apparently)
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/2011/Sep-16/148933-turk-pm-says-syrian-oppressors-wont-survive.ashx
Former Lebanese President Emile Lahoud: the line of resistance of Lebanon and Syria is not capable of penetrating
http://www.sana.sy/ara/3/2011/09/16/369685.htm
حطيط ينتقد بيان وزراء الخارجية العرب حول الأحداث ب سورية .
Hoteit a statement criticizing the Arab foreign ministers on the events to Syria. (Statements from pro-Syrian figures in Lebanon about Arab League, etc.)
http://www.sana.sy/ara/3/2011/09/16/369703.htm
لبنان : الأحداث في سوريا تضرّ بالسياحة والتجارة عبر الحدود
Lebanon: the events in Syria harm to tourism and cross-border trade
http://www.aksalser.com/index.php?page=view_news&id=1a573d2434637df9c55c245ba7f08ab4&ar=683259448
The Governor of the Bank of Lebanon, Riad Salameh, said . . . that the "bank deposits in Lebanon increased by about 4.5 billion dollars during the past few months," expected "growth in deposits, about 7 percent in 2011."
In response to a question on whether the deposit growth is partly due to flows from Syria, he said, "No, is essentially normal flows that we receive from Lebanese expatriates, did not notice significant transfers from Syria to Lebanon."
Erdogan to visit Iran
http://www.irna.ir/ENNewsShow.aspx?NID=30566687&SRCH=1
Ankara, Sept 16, IRNA – Turkish Prime Minister Recep Teyyip Erdogan will pay an official visit to Iran, according to Turkish news sources.
"I plan visiting Iran in the near future," Erdogan told reporters during his Thursday visit to Tunisia. Soon I will send Hakan [Fidan, undersecretary of the National Intelligence Organization (M?T)] to Tehran to hold meetings with Iranian officials."
He said Turkey is in talks with Iran on regional developments, Syria issues and campaign against terrorism.
Turkish PM Erdogan says Syrian oppressors won't survive (just a performance of a politician apparently)
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/2011/Sep-16/148933-turk-pm-says-syrian-oppressors-wont-survive.ashx
Sep 16 International
China Hopes International Community Respect UN Principles, Sovereign Independence of Syria
الصين تأمل بأن يحترم المجتمع الدولي مبادىء الأمم المتحدة والاستقلال السيادي لسورية وسلامة أراضيها
http://www.sana.sy/eng/22/2011/09/16/369697.htm
http://www.sana.sy/ara/3/2011/09/16/369688.htm
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/china/2011-09/15/c_131140850.htm
Feature: Vibrant life returns to southern Syrian city, once epicenter of protests (Xinhua reports from Daraa)
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2011-09/16/c_131141233.htm
English.news.cn 2011-09-16 06:22:17
by Hummam Sheikh Ali
باريس في تطوير اتصالات مع المعارضة السورية.
French Foreign Ministry announces receiving Syrian dissidents
http://www.aksalser.com/index.php?page=view_news&id=deaa96d949c8b2187ed0ebd57ada157f&ar=22741037
الصين تأمل بأن يحترم المجتمع الدولي مبادىء الأمم المتحدة والاستقلال السيادي لسورية وسلامة أراضيها
http://www.sana.sy/eng/22/2011/09/16/369697.htm
http://www.sana.sy/ara/3/2011/09/16/369688.htm
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/china/2011-09/15/c_131140850.htm
Feature: Vibrant life returns to southern Syrian city, once epicenter of protests (Xinhua reports from Daraa)
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2011-09/16/c_131141233.htm
English.news.cn 2011-09-16 06:22:17
by Hummam Sheikh Ali
باريس في تطوير اتصالات مع المعارضة السورية.
French Foreign Ministry announces receiving Syrian dissidents
http://www.aksalser.com/index.php?page=view_news&id=deaa96d949c8b2187ed0ebd57ada157f&ar=22741037
Sep 16 Local government
تعيين محام عام جديد لمحافظة ادلب
New attorney general appointed in Idlib
http://www.aksalser.com/index.php?page=view_news&id=051726b454ca9046fb040bbd564e5be8&ar=379349409
Damascus: Number of naturalized ajanib climbs to 51,000 (naturalization of Kurds)
http://www.kurdwatch.org/index?aid=1998
New attorney general appointed in Idlib
http://www.aksalser.com/index.php?page=view_news&id=051726b454ca9046fb040bbd564e5be8&ar=379349409
Damascus: Number of naturalized ajanib climbs to 51,000 (naturalization of Kurds)
http://www.kurdwatch.org/index?aid=1998
Sep 16 No problem in government finance
مصرف سورية المركزي : سوريا لم تبع أصولاً على الإطلاق
Central Bank of Syria: Syria did not sell assets at all
http://www.aksalser.com/index.php?page=view_news&id=4f4fa8413536ad959ccb2ebc8b36801b&ar=988520320
"Syrian government has issued bonds before the crisis, and continues according to its needs and the need for that."
the financing of the Syrian economy is through the regular income from foreign exchange in addition to reserves, pointing out that things are going as they are and there is no forms.
Central Bank of Syria: Syria did not sell assets at all
http://www.aksalser.com/index.php?page=view_news&id=4f4fa8413536ad959ccb2ebc8b36801b&ar=988520320
"Syrian government has issued bonds before the crisis, and continues according to its needs and the need for that."
the financing of the Syrian economy is through the regular income from foreign exchange in addition to reserves, pointing out that things are going as they are and there is no forms.
Sep 16 Incidents, Friday Demonstrations
One Martyr, 6 Wounded in Armed Ambush against Army in Douma
http://www.sana.sy/eng/21/2011/09/16/369684.htm
Col. Khallouf Martyred by Armed Terrorist Groups, Not by His Colleagues (al-Jazeerah fabrication)
قنوات العدوان الإعلامي على سورية تواصل مسلسل تضليلها
http://www.sana.sy/eng/337/2011/09/16/369671.htm
http://www.sana.sy/ara/336/2011/09/16/369665.htm
ادلب: تفجير منزلين و استشهاد طفل في قرية " الجانودية " و استعادة 40 سيارة حكومية وخاصة
Idlib: the bombing of two houses and killed children in the village "al-Jaanoudiyyah" in Jisr al-Shughour, 40 government and private cars were taken back from armed gangs in Khurbah al-Jawz on the Syrian-Turkish border.
http://www.aksalser.com/index.php?page=view_articles&id=e941e0e6a7f8d093c495e40003808e23&h=%CC%D3%D1%20%C7%E1%D4%DB%E6%D1&ar=818330364
اختطاف شرطيين واعادتهما بعد تصويرهما على انهما منشقين في ادلب
Abduction of two policemen and bring them back after they were filmed on dissidents in Idlib
http://www.aksalser.com/index.php?page=view_articles&id=d0f3c8dd45821ea8e8df68f5d65285c3&h=%C7%CF%E1%C8&ar=504579962
Lebanese Source: 3 Persons Smuggling Weapons from Lebanon into Syria Arrested
عربي ـ دولي>>توقيف مجموعة تحاول تهريب أسلحة من لبنان إلى سورية
http://www.sana.sy/eng/22/2011/09/16/369747.htm
http://www.sana.sy/ara/3/2011/09/16/369744.htm
Sep 16, 2011
The source said in a statement to the Lebanese NBN satellite channel that large quantities of weapons including RPG and Energia rockets, machine guns and advanced night vision binoculars were confiscated in the operation.
دورية عسكرية سورية تطلق النار على فارين وتصيب حافلة للجيش اللبناني
Syrian military patrol crossed the border and fired on the fleeing, wounded Lebanese army bus
http://www.aksalser.com/index.php?page=view_news&id=6cf7dc36cffd5bc5238b32e3a1b9e46d&ar=300840653
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Politics/2011/Sep-16/148908-lebanese-injured-as-syrian-troops-pursue-refugees-over-border.ashx
3 دونمات كانت جاهزة للقطاف .. الجمارك تصادر مزروعات حقل مزروع بمادة الحشيش شرق حلب
3 acres were ready for harvest .. Customs confiscated crops planted a field of cannabis (hashish) substance east of Aleppo
http://www.aksalser.com/index.php?page=view_news&id=5863618897fad3ee20833bc455e866d6&ar=955071782
كيف تم القبض على الهرموش ؟
How was arrested Hermosh?
http://www.aksalser.com/index.php?page=view_articles&id=295648012dfc9f5d010a800ab0306fac&h=%CF%E3%D4%DE&ar=658295453
There are conflicting reports on how to report the arrest of "dissident" Hussein Harmoush, Syrian television broadcast that his confession yesterday, while the accused's brother Hermosh (Ibrahim), the Turkish authorities to hand over his brother (Hussein) to Syria, opposition sources denied this news, as the Syrian authorities denied that.
A correspondent of the newspaper "Al Quds Al Arabi" homey full Sakr, quoting Syrian sources to keep up with the arrest of Hermosh that the operation was purely a Syrian intelligence effort and through follow-up to the minute movements of land between the Syrian and Turkish.
ICRC slams attacks on medical services in Syria
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/2011/Sep-16/148935-icrc-slams-attacks-on-medical-services-in-syria.ashx
Al-Qamishli: Numerous cases against demonstrators (arrests of mainly Kurds who participated in unlicensed demonstraitons)
http://www.kurdwatch.org/index?aid=1997
Demonstrations after the Friday prayer (Sep 16)
Martyr, 4 Injured from Law Enforcement Forces in Daraa, Attacked by Armed Groups
استشهاد عنصر من قوات حفظ النظام وإصابة أربعة آخرين برصاص مجموعة مسلحة في بصر الحرير
http://www.sana.sy/eng/337/2011/09/16/369729.htm
http://www.sana.sy/ara/336/2011/09/16/369724.htm
خروج مظاهرات عقب صلاة الجمعة .. تضارب في أرقام المعارضة حول عدد الشهداء و وكالة أنباء أمريكية تنفي سقوط اي شهيد
Demonstrations after Friday prayers .. Inconsistencies in the figures of the opposition on a number of martyrs and the American news agency denies any fall a martyr
http://www.aksalser.com/index.php?page=view_articles&id=a137bc8da4241bb01fa97192768f9e18&h=%CF%E3%D4%DE&ar=939556876
Some videos of demonstrations "Friday of Keep Going until Toppling the Regime."
Daraa province
----------------------
al-Sanamain (50km north of Daraa city), Daraa
Shootings.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3GTGMI3s78
Damascus countryside
-----------
al-Qaboun (northern edge of Damascus, slightly to the east)
At 01:31 "We demand Turkey to fix her stance towards Syrian people."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBYF3clAdNc
At 01:26 "Crimes of al-Assad requires air blockade."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBYF3clAdNc
Duma, northeast of Damascus countryside
Splended view from the top of the central mosque.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0U7R0QNM2I
Saqaba, east of Damascus countryside
Voice of support for Harmoush
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_n4X_jMTWuo
Zamalka, east of Damascus countryside
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fL0sz_KOunk
Homs province
------------------
Homs city
Bab al-Sibaa (just east of castle in the old quarter)
Paper at 00:04 says "Breaking News: Bashar ordered his officials to liquidate donkeys in fear of donkeys finally reaching power." 2 red cloths at 00:07 says "SOS" and "No dialogue."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-OrzNpB1gU
At 00:15 "Mr Erdogan, where are your promises to stand with Syrian people? We need action, not words." At 00:18 "People want international protection." At 00:22 "Protection of Syrian people from heavy weapons and figher jets is legal and humanitarian duty for the international community." At 00:24 total fabricated writings on a large cloth "Oh my mom, how can I go to school? There are Shabbihah at school. I don't want to go to school because I am afraid of snipers on the roof."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mew8twVh2J0
al-Khalidiyyah (2km north of the castle in the old quarter, and then the east side of the main street)
Sep 16 Shooting and protesters are running away.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MouLB0FhG-4
Sep 17 Scene of funeral. People are crossing shoulders. I often see people crossing shoulders during protests these days, in an apprarent show of unity.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqYHzx8F870
Homs countryside
al-Waar (a small town at the opposite side of Homs city beyond the Orontes river to the direction of northwest)
Banner at the beginning can read "We want Arab and International intervention to protect civilians."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8LtibisI-o
al-Qusour, northern part within Homs city
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vCwqCn2fxQ
Tartous province
-------------------
Rare demonstration in Tartous at night
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y83k0JkMphw
Banyas
At 00:03 "SOS." At 00:04 "We want protection." At 00:06 "We want NATO." Protesters shout "People want an execution of the president" throughout the recording. At 00:44 "We want military air banning" (no-fly zone).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEvVwy1b_a4
Idlib province
------------------
Jurjnaz (7km east-southeast from Maarrat al-Naaman, which is 30km south from Idlib city)
Paper at the beginning says "We want a noble Arab (Arabi Nabil), not Sec. Gen. of the Arab League (Nabil Arabi)."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fwcpkh6i65s
Saraqib (12km east southeast from Idlib city, 50km southwest from Aleppo)
Like a music concert.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-W9gAIouTo
al-Hasakah province
-------------------
al-Durbasiyyah (50km north of al-Hasakah city, 50km west of al-Qamishli, Kurdish town)
At 00:28 "SOS. We demand international protection."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYReD5r9XoU
Amuda (28km east of al-Qamishli, Kurdish town)
From 01:05 to 01:15, a big picture of human body entitled "Syria is one body", and each parts is given placenames. Amuda is a brain. Homs is a heart. Idlib is a left lung. Hama is a throat. Aleppo is a stomach. Damascus is kidneys. Daraa is a right arm. Damascus countryside is an unknown organ, perhaps a right lung. Latakia is a right leg. Deir al-Zawr is a left arm. al-Suwaida is the small intestine. Tartous is the large intestine. The regime is the rectum. At 02:40 3 Kurdish flags are waving with a voice of "Azadi (freedom)."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fi-y_dB_uk
http://www.sana.sy/eng/21/2011/09/16/369684.htm
Col. Khallouf Martyred by Armed Terrorist Groups, Not by His Colleagues (al-Jazeerah fabrication)
قنوات العدوان الإعلامي على سورية تواصل مسلسل تضليلها
http://www.sana.sy/eng/337/2011/09/16/369671.htm
http://www.sana.sy/ara/336/2011/09/16/369665.htm
ادلب: تفجير منزلين و استشهاد طفل في قرية " الجانودية " و استعادة 40 سيارة حكومية وخاصة
Idlib: the bombing of two houses and killed children in the village "al-Jaanoudiyyah" in Jisr al-Shughour, 40 government and private cars were taken back from armed gangs in Khurbah al-Jawz on the Syrian-Turkish border.
http://www.aksalser.com/index.php?page=view_articles&id=e941e0e6a7f8d093c495e40003808e23&h=%CC%D3%D1%20%C7%E1%D4%DB%E6%D1&ar=818330364
اختطاف شرطيين واعادتهما بعد تصويرهما على انهما منشقين في ادلب
Abduction of two policemen and bring them back after they were filmed on dissidents in Idlib
http://www.aksalser.com/index.php?page=view_articles&id=d0f3c8dd45821ea8e8df68f5d65285c3&h=%C7%CF%E1%C8&ar=504579962
Lebanese Source: 3 Persons Smuggling Weapons from Lebanon into Syria Arrested
عربي ـ دولي>>توقيف مجموعة تحاول تهريب أسلحة من لبنان إلى سورية
http://www.sana.sy/eng/22/2011/09/16/369747.htm
http://www.sana.sy/ara/3/2011/09/16/369744.htm
Sep 16, 2011
The source said in a statement to the Lebanese NBN satellite channel that large quantities of weapons including RPG and Energia rockets, machine guns and advanced night vision binoculars were confiscated in the operation.
دورية عسكرية سورية تطلق النار على فارين وتصيب حافلة للجيش اللبناني
Syrian military patrol crossed the border and fired on the fleeing, wounded Lebanese army bus
http://www.aksalser.com/index.php?page=view_news&id=6cf7dc36cffd5bc5238b32e3a1b9e46d&ar=300840653
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Politics/2011/Sep-16/148908-lebanese-injured-as-syrian-troops-pursue-refugees-over-border.ashx
3 دونمات كانت جاهزة للقطاف .. الجمارك تصادر مزروعات حقل مزروع بمادة الحشيش شرق حلب
3 acres were ready for harvest .. Customs confiscated crops planted a field of cannabis (hashish) substance east of Aleppo
http://www.aksalser.com/index.php?page=view_news&id=5863618897fad3ee20833bc455e866d6&ar=955071782
كيف تم القبض على الهرموش ؟
How was arrested Hermosh?
http://www.aksalser.com/index.php?page=view_articles&id=295648012dfc9f5d010a800ab0306fac&h=%CF%E3%D4%DE&ar=658295453
There are conflicting reports on how to report the arrest of "dissident" Hussein Harmoush, Syrian television broadcast that his confession yesterday, while the accused's brother Hermosh (Ibrahim), the Turkish authorities to hand over his brother (Hussein) to Syria, opposition sources denied this news, as the Syrian authorities denied that.
A correspondent of the newspaper "Al Quds Al Arabi" homey full Sakr, quoting Syrian sources to keep up with the arrest of Hermosh that the operation was purely a Syrian intelligence effort and through follow-up to the minute movements of land between the Syrian and Turkish.
ICRC slams attacks on medical services in Syria
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/2011/Sep-16/148935-icrc-slams-attacks-on-medical-services-in-syria.ashx
Al-Qamishli: Numerous cases against demonstrators (arrests of mainly Kurds who participated in unlicensed demonstraitons)
http://www.kurdwatch.org/index?aid=1997
Demonstrations after the Friday prayer (Sep 16)
Martyr, 4 Injured from Law Enforcement Forces in Daraa, Attacked by Armed Groups
استشهاد عنصر من قوات حفظ النظام وإصابة أربعة آخرين برصاص مجموعة مسلحة في بصر الحرير
http://www.sana.sy/eng/337/2011/09/16/369729.htm
http://www.sana.sy/ara/336/2011/09/16/369724.htm
خروج مظاهرات عقب صلاة الجمعة .. تضارب في أرقام المعارضة حول عدد الشهداء و وكالة أنباء أمريكية تنفي سقوط اي شهيد
Demonstrations after Friday prayers .. Inconsistencies in the figures of the opposition on a number of martyrs and the American news agency denies any fall a martyr
http://www.aksalser.com/index.php?page=view_articles&id=a137bc8da4241bb01fa97192768f9e18&h=%CF%E3%D4%DE&ar=939556876
Some videos of demonstrations "Friday of Keep Going until Toppling the Regime."
Daraa province
----------------------
al-Sanamain (50km north of Daraa city), Daraa
Shootings.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3GTGMI3s78
Damascus countryside
-----------
al-Qaboun (northern edge of Damascus, slightly to the east)
At 01:31 "We demand Turkey to fix her stance towards Syrian people."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBYF3clAdNc
At 01:26 "Crimes of al-Assad requires air blockade."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBYF3clAdNc
Duma, northeast of Damascus countryside
Splended view from the top of the central mosque.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0U7R0QNM2I
Saqaba, east of Damascus countryside
Voice of support for Harmoush
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_n4X_jMTWuo
Zamalka, east of Damascus countryside
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fL0sz_KOunk
Homs province
------------------
Homs city
Bab al-Sibaa (just east of castle in the old quarter)
Paper at 00:04 says "Breaking News: Bashar ordered his officials to liquidate donkeys in fear of donkeys finally reaching power." 2 red cloths at 00:07 says "SOS" and "No dialogue."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-OrzNpB1gU
At 00:15 "Mr Erdogan, where are your promises to stand with Syrian people? We need action, not words." At 00:18 "People want international protection." At 00:22 "Protection of Syrian people from heavy weapons and figher jets is legal and humanitarian duty for the international community." At 00:24 total fabricated writings on a large cloth "Oh my mom, how can I go to school? There are Shabbihah at school. I don't want to go to school because I am afraid of snipers on the roof."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mew8twVh2J0
al-Khalidiyyah (2km north of the castle in the old quarter, and then the east side of the main street)
Sep 16 Shooting and protesters are running away.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MouLB0FhG-4
Sep 17 Scene of funeral. People are crossing shoulders. I often see people crossing shoulders during protests these days, in an apprarent show of unity.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqYHzx8F870
Homs countryside
al-Waar (a small town at the opposite side of Homs city beyond the Orontes river to the direction of northwest)
Banner at the beginning can read "We want Arab and International intervention to protect civilians."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8LtibisI-o
al-Qusour, northern part within Homs city
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vCwqCn2fxQ
Tartous province
-------------------
Rare demonstration in Tartous at night
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y83k0JkMphw
Banyas
At 00:03 "SOS." At 00:04 "We want protection." At 00:06 "We want NATO." Protesters shout "People want an execution of the president" throughout the recording. At 00:44 "We want military air banning" (no-fly zone).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEvVwy1b_a4
Idlib province
------------------
Jurjnaz (7km east-southeast from Maarrat al-Naaman, which is 30km south from Idlib city)
Paper at the beginning says "We want a noble Arab (Arabi Nabil), not Sec. Gen. of the Arab League (Nabil Arabi)."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fwcpkh6i65s
Saraqib (12km east southeast from Idlib city, 50km southwest from Aleppo)
Like a music concert.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-W9gAIouTo
al-Hasakah province
-------------------
al-Durbasiyyah (50km north of al-Hasakah city, 50km west of al-Qamishli, Kurdish town)
At 00:28 "SOS. We demand international protection."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYReD5r9XoU
Amuda (28km east of al-Qamishli, Kurdish town)
From 01:05 to 01:15, a big picture of human body entitled "Syria is one body", and each parts is given placenames. Amuda is a brain. Homs is a heart. Idlib is a left lung. Hama is a throat. Aleppo is a stomach. Damascus is kidneys. Daraa is a right arm. Damascus countryside is an unknown organ, perhaps a right lung. Latakia is a right leg. Deir al-Zawr is a left arm. al-Suwaida is the small intestine. Tartous is the large intestine. The regime is the rectum. At 02:40 3 Kurdish flags are waving with a voice of "Azadi (freedom)."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fi-y_dB_uk
2011/09/15
Now Japan has joined the anti-Syrian camp explicitly (انضمت اليابان للمعسكر المعارضة السورية الآن بشكل صريح)
On September 9, Japan imposed sanctions against Syria. The EU's sanctions include asset ban and travel ban on main figures in the administration. This is a diplomatic expression that the EU members are no longer willing to talk with these Syrian officials.
The Japanese ban covers asset ban only. Those targeted are mainly intelligence people, plus President al-Assad, Vice President Farouq al-Sharaa, and "former" defence minister, with whom Japan does not have any relations from the first, I suppose. (It is ridiculous that the "current" defense minister of Syria can open a bank account in Japan, and send money into and out of Japan freely.) Japan has not issued any travel ban against Syrians officials. So technically speaking, President al-Assad and his ministers can visit Japan. I thought that the Japanese sanctions is only symbolic. I was wrong.
Yesterday the Japanese ambassador in Damascus attended the funeral of Ghiyath Matar, an anti-government activist, along with his other western colleagues. In YouTube videos, I found him in the middle of the ambassadors (5th guy from the left.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVE5kl_qIoY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30foADC2zUE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyVzJ3jgrz0
But I don't think that the ambassador or the Japanese government made the decision on its own. The US must have asked Japan to join, and Japan which does not have any specific Middle East policy, responded positively. Currently there are few commercial relations between Syria and Japan.
It is natural to think that the US asked South Korea to do the same. And they must have refrained from dispatching their ambassador perhaps because South Korea has considerable business relations with Syria.
And on Sep 15, it was revealed that Japan sent an observer to the oppositions' National Council whose aim is to "topple Bashar al-Assad regime."
The appearance of British and other western envoys at an activist's funeral signals an upping of stakes in the stand-off with Damascus
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/julian-borger-global-security-blog/2011/sep/14/syria-foreignpolicy
Ambassadors from the US, Britain, France, Germany, Canada, Japan, Netherlands and the EU attended the funeral on Sunday of activist Giyath Matar.
Anti-regime Syrians release council list
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/n.php?n=anti-regime-syrians--release-council-list-2011-09-15
Thursday, September 15, 2011
Selim Akan
ISTANBUL - Hürriyet Daily News
Syrian opposition members have unveiled a list of 140 dissidents for a "national council" that will aim to topple the present regime through peaceful means and set up a modern state while ensuring civil rights, according to members of the group.
"We are aiming to topple the [Bashar] al-Assad regime while protecting the institutions of the state," the council's spokeswoman, Basma Kadmani, said Thursday during a meeting in Istanbul.
He also said countries including Russia, Canada, Japan and the Netherlands had declared their intentions to send diplomats as observers to the Istanbul meeting; only Canada and Japan's representatives were present at the event, however.
The Japanese ban covers asset ban only. Those targeted are mainly intelligence people, plus President al-Assad, Vice President Farouq al-Sharaa, and "former" defence minister, with whom Japan does not have any relations from the first, I suppose. (It is ridiculous that the "current" defense minister of Syria can open a bank account in Japan, and send money into and out of Japan freely.) Japan has not issued any travel ban against Syrians officials. So technically speaking, President al-Assad and his ministers can visit Japan. I thought that the Japanese sanctions is only symbolic. I was wrong.
Yesterday the Japanese ambassador in Damascus attended the funeral of Ghiyath Matar, an anti-government activist, along with his other western colleagues. In YouTube videos, I found him in the middle of the ambassadors (5th guy from the left.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVE5kl_qIoY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30foADC2zUE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyVzJ3jgrz0
But I don't think that the ambassador or the Japanese government made the decision on its own. The US must have asked Japan to join, and Japan which does not have any specific Middle East policy, responded positively. Currently there are few commercial relations between Syria and Japan.
It is natural to think that the US asked South Korea to do the same. And they must have refrained from dispatching their ambassador perhaps because South Korea has considerable business relations with Syria.
And on Sep 15, it was revealed that Japan sent an observer to the oppositions' National Council whose aim is to "topple Bashar al-Assad regime."
The appearance of British and other western envoys at an activist's funeral signals an upping of stakes in the stand-off with Damascus
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/julian-borger-global-security-blog/2011/sep/14/syria-foreignpolicy
Ambassadors from the US, Britain, France, Germany, Canada, Japan, Netherlands and the EU attended the funeral on Sunday of activist Giyath Matar.
Anti-regime Syrians release council list
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/n.php?n=anti-regime-syrians--release-council-list-2011-09-15
Thursday, September 15, 2011
Selim Akan
ISTANBUL - Hürriyet Daily News
Syrian opposition members have unveiled a list of 140 dissidents for a "national council" that will aim to topple the present regime through peaceful means and set up a modern state while ensuring civil rights, according to members of the group.
"We are aiming to topple the [Bashar] al-Assad regime while protecting the institutions of the state," the council's spokeswoman, Basma Kadmani, said Thursday during a meeting in Istanbul.
He also said countries including Russia, Canada, Japan and the Netherlands had declared their intentions to send diplomats as observers to the Istanbul meeting; only Canada and Japan's representatives were present at the event, however.
Sep 15 Others
The New Middle East: Turkey replaces Israel
http://www.todayszaman.com/columnistDetail_getNewsById.action?newsId=256789
14 September 2011, Wednesday
KERİM BALCI, Columnists
Sarkozy in bid to steal the Libya show from Turkey
http://www.todayszaman.com/news-256898-sarkozy-in-bid-to-steal-the-libya-show-from-turkey.html
Erdoğan would be the first senior foreign leader to be visiting Libya since the toppling of Muammar Gaddafi. . .
"This is constitutes stealing the show. The man [Sarkozy] obviously wanted to arrive earlier than Mr. Erdoğan. Right from the beginning, Sarkozy has claimed Libya as if it is a country on which he is the only one to have a say. . . a senior Turkish diplomat told. . .
Sarkozy's concerns over the upcoming 2012 presidential elections are also a key factor in this hastily planned visit," the diplomat said.
"His [Sarkozy] agenda is solely occupied by his own concerns about the elections, but not by concerns of Libyan people,"
US sounds alarm on threats to religious freedom in post-revolt Arab nations
http://www.lebanese-forces.org/regional/US-sounds-alarm-on-threats-to-religious-freedom-in-post-revolt-Arab-nations1005379.shtml
http://www.todayszaman.com/columnistDetail_getNewsById.action?newsId=256789
14 September 2011, Wednesday
KERİM BALCI, Columnists
Sarkozy in bid to steal the Libya show from Turkey
http://www.todayszaman.com/news-256898-sarkozy-in-bid-to-steal-the-libya-show-from-turkey.html
Erdoğan would be the first senior foreign leader to be visiting Libya since the toppling of Muammar Gaddafi. . .
"This is constitutes stealing the show. The man [Sarkozy] obviously wanted to arrive earlier than Mr. Erdoğan. Right from the beginning, Sarkozy has claimed Libya as if it is a country on which he is the only one to have a say. . . a senior Turkish diplomat told. . .
Sarkozy's concerns over the upcoming 2012 presidential elections are also a key factor in this hastily planned visit," the diplomat said.
"His [Sarkozy] agenda is solely occupied by his own concerns about the elections, but not by concerns of Libyan people,"
US sounds alarm on threats to religious freedom in post-revolt Arab nations
http://www.lebanese-forces.org/regional/US-sounds-alarm-on-threats-to-religious-freedom-in-post-revolt-Arab-nations1005379.shtml
Sep 15 Economy
مسح اقتصاد الظل في سورية قد يتأخر...ماء البارد: البسطات تعوق حركة الناس والتنظيم يعد جزءاً من المشروع
Clear the shadow economy in Syria may be delayed ... cold water: stalls impede the movement of people and the organization is part of the project
http://www.alwatan.sy/dindex.php?idn=108531
http://backupurl.com/g6qglr
التجار والجمارك يفتحون الأوراق على المكشوف...اعتراف بزيادة الرسوم وبوجود حالات تزوير!!
Traders and customs open securities short ... recognition of the increased fees and the existence of fraud!!
http://www.alwatan.sy/dindex.php?idn=108530
http://backupurl.com/m4pxy7
الغرف الزراعية تخفض 50 % من صادرات البيض لصالح السوق المحلية
Chambers of Agriculture cut 50% of the exports of eggs for the local market
http://www.aksalser.com/index.php?page=view_news&id=0a7bc8a1f3f342520a9a80b97414a81a&ar=907281480
Clear the shadow economy in Syria may be delayed ... cold water: stalls impede the movement of people and the organization is part of the project
http://www.alwatan.sy/dindex.php?idn=108531
http://backupurl.com/g6qglr
التجار والجمارك يفتحون الأوراق على المكشوف...اعتراف بزيادة الرسوم وبوجود حالات تزوير!!
Traders and customs open securities short ... recognition of the increased fees and the existence of fraud!!
http://www.alwatan.sy/dindex.php?idn=108530
http://backupurl.com/m4pxy7
الغرف الزراعية تخفض 50 % من صادرات البيض لصالح السوق المحلية
Chambers of Agriculture cut 50% of the exports of eggs for the local market
http://www.aksalser.com/index.php?page=view_news&id=0a7bc8a1f3f342520a9a80b97414a81a&ar=907281480
Sep 15 Arab League, Confession of Harmoush
وفد من المعارضة يسلَّم "العربي" ثمانية مطالب أبرزها فرض حظر جوي و بحري و تجميد عضوية سورية
http://www.aksalser.com/index.php?page=view_news&id=f0407faebb5860632f8579034e6934b5&ar=352034213
الخميس - 15 أيلول - 2011 - 16:47:35
التقى وفد من المعارضة السورية يزور مصر حالياً الأمين العام للجامعة العربية الدكتور نبيل العربي أمس. وقدَّم له ورقة تتضمن ثمانية مطالب، أهمها تجميد عضوية دمشق في الجامعة، وفرض حظر جوي وبحري لوقف حملة " قمع الاحتجاجات في سورية".
وطلب الوفد أيضاً "رفع الشرعية عن النظام السوري، وإيجاد آليات وأساليب ضرورية لوقف عمليات القتل والقمع، وسحب كل الفرق العسكرية والقوى الأمنية من المدن والمحافظات والقرى التي انتشرت بها، وضمان حق التظاهر السلمي، وإيجاد آلية لتمكين دخول منظمات الإغاثة الدولية إلى كل المناطق، خصوصاً المناطق المنكوبة، وتمكين لجان التحقيق الدولية والعربية من دخول البلاد لتقصي الحقائق، وتمكين وسائل الإعلام العربية والدولية من دخول سورية لتغطية الأحداث ".
ونقل أعضاء في الوفد عن العربي تأكيده أن " الوضع في سورية لا يمكن أن يستمر على هذه الحال "، وأن " وضع حقوق الإنسان لم يعد شأناً داخلياً بل خارجياً ".
وأشاروا إلى أنه " شدد على مطالبته الحاسمة للنظام السوري بضرورة وقف العنف فوراً كما جاء في قرار وزراء الخارجية العرب " أول من أمس.
وأشارت مصادر إلى أن " العربي كشف للوفد أنه عرض على الرئيس الأسد استضافته في لقاء لكامل أطياف سورية في مقر الجامعة في القاهرة، لكن الأسد طلب أن يكون اللقاء في دمشق.
و مثل وفد المعارضة الذي حضر اللقاء مع العربي النائب السابق محمد مأمون الحمصي، والقيادي في "الحركة الوطنية الكردية" الشيخ مرشد الخزنوي، ونائب رئيس " اتحاد العشائر السورية " الشيخ إسماعيل الخالدي، ومدير " منظمة سواسية لحقوق الإنسان" في سورية بسام إسحاق، والقيادي في " تجمع 15 آذار من أجل الديموقراطية " الدكتور منذر ماخوس، والكاتب والناشط السياسي " قهار رامكو" ، والناشط الحقوقي " فارس الشوفي "، والناشطة المصرية " أميرة الرفاعي ".
A delegation from the opposition recognizes "al-Arabi" most notably the eight demands to ban air and sea and freeze the membership of Syria
http://www.aksalser.com/index.php?page=view_news&id=f0407faebb5860632f8579034e6934b5&ar=352034213
Thursday - September 15 - 2011 - 16:47:35
Met a delegation from the Syrian opposition is currently visiting Egypt of the Secretary-General of the Arab League, Dr. Nabil Arabi yesterday. And gave him a paper with eight demands, the most important to freeze the membership at the Arab League of Damascus, and the air and sea blockade to stop the "suppression of protests in Syria."
The delegation also asked for "de-legitimize the Syrian regime, and the creation of mechanisms and methods are necessary to stop the killings and repression, and the withdrawal of all the teams of military and security forces from the cities and provinces and villages that spread out and the right of peaceful demonstration, and a mechanism to enable the entry of international relief organizations to all areas, especially affected areas, and enable the international commissions of inquiry and Arab from entering the country to investigate the facts, and the empowerment of the Arab media and international enter Syria to cover the events. "
And the transfer of members of the delegation from the Arab saying that "the situation in Syria cannot continue on this case," and that "the human rights situation is no longer an internal affair, but externally."
They pointed out that, "stressed the crucial demand of the Syrian regime should immediately halt the violence as stated in the decision of the Arab foreign ministers," the day before yesterday.
The sources pointed out that "the discovery of the Arab delegation that was shown to President Assad in a meeting hosted for the entire spectrum of Syria in the Arab League headquarters in Cairo, but al-Assad demanded to have the meeting in Damascus.
Like the opposition delegation, who attended the meeting with the Arab former MP Muhammad Mamoun Al-Homsi, and leader of the "Kurdish national movement," Sheikh Morshed Khaznawi, Vice President of the "Union of tribal Syrian" Sheikh Ismail Khalidi, the director of "the equal human rights" in Syria Bassam Isaac, and leadership in the "Coalition of 15 March for Democracy" Dr. Munther Majos, writer and political activist, "Kahar Ramco," and human rights activist, "Knight Shoufi", the Egyptian activist and "princess-Rifai."
Syria Protests al-Arabi's Meeting Representatives of Syrian Opposition, Serious Precedent in terms of Joint Arab Action (Arab League)
http://www.sana.sy/eng/337/2011/09/15/369639.htm
. . . I cannot but express strong dissatisfaction about leaking information about your meeting with President Bashar al-Assad on September 10th, 2011 in such sensitive time which damaged the confidence. . .
"What provoked our extreme concern is your statements on Wednesday September, 14, 2011 about sending committees to Syria which fully contradict your decision to abandon your report on your visit to Syria and your meeting with President al-Assad which provided for forming a high-level AL Secretariat General delegation to visit the Syrian governorates and know more about the reality of what is taking place with official guarantees for free transportation and providing protection for the delegation members," . . .
the news leaks attributed to you regarding a national dialogue conference and your proposal to be held out of Syria greatly contradicts your report to the AL Council presented on September 13th , 2011 which stressed on launching a national dialogue in Syria with the participation of the AL according to a certain mechanism. . .
what was attributed to you, after your meeting, of implicit suggestions encouraging and inciting external interference in Syrian affairs, especially in terms of considering what is happening in Syria is no longer an internal affair, but an external one, So we are surprised. . .
داوود أوغلو ينفي تسليم تركيا للمقدم " المنشق " حسين هرموش
Davutoglu Turkey denies the delivery of the presenter "dissident" Hussein Harmoush
http://www.aksalser.com/index.php?page=view_news&id=fc181092f38eaf3457f0c21d2986a002&ar=461038134
Turkey blamed after defector is returned to Syria
Lieutenant Colonel Hussein al-Harmoush was first senior military officer to defect during anti-Assad uprising
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/sep/15/turkey-blamed-defector-returned-to-syria
Martin Chulov
Thursday 15 September 2011 20.06 BST
Wissam Tarif from the human rights organisation Avaaz said he had been told that Turkish officials had traded Harmoush for nine members of the PKK Kurdish militant group, which Turkey has proscribed as a terrorist organisation.
"We have heard from the Kurds that there has been a deal done," he said. "The Turks have been extremely interested in finding ways to clearly define the Kurdish role inside the [Syrian opposition] transitional council."
A spokesman for the Turkish government said that he had no information about Harmoush. When asked on Thursday in Cairo about the missing officer, Turkey's prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, did not respond.
Harmoush: I didn't receive any orders to fire at civilians… armed groups were the killers
http://www.sana.sy/eng/337/2011/09/15/369669.htm
http://www.sana.sy/ara/336/2011/09/15/369664.htm
Sep 15, 2011
Interview of Harmoush broadcast by the Syrian TV
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2KHlZ4gM70
http://www.aksalser.com/index.php?page=view_news&id=f0407faebb5860632f8579034e6934b5&ar=352034213
الخميس - 15 أيلول - 2011 - 16:47:35
التقى وفد من المعارضة السورية يزور مصر حالياً الأمين العام للجامعة العربية الدكتور نبيل العربي أمس. وقدَّم له ورقة تتضمن ثمانية مطالب، أهمها تجميد عضوية دمشق في الجامعة، وفرض حظر جوي وبحري لوقف حملة " قمع الاحتجاجات في سورية".
وطلب الوفد أيضاً "رفع الشرعية عن النظام السوري، وإيجاد آليات وأساليب ضرورية لوقف عمليات القتل والقمع، وسحب كل الفرق العسكرية والقوى الأمنية من المدن والمحافظات والقرى التي انتشرت بها، وضمان حق التظاهر السلمي، وإيجاد آلية لتمكين دخول منظمات الإغاثة الدولية إلى كل المناطق، خصوصاً المناطق المنكوبة، وتمكين لجان التحقيق الدولية والعربية من دخول البلاد لتقصي الحقائق، وتمكين وسائل الإعلام العربية والدولية من دخول سورية لتغطية الأحداث ".
ونقل أعضاء في الوفد عن العربي تأكيده أن " الوضع في سورية لا يمكن أن يستمر على هذه الحال "، وأن " وضع حقوق الإنسان لم يعد شأناً داخلياً بل خارجياً ".
وأشاروا إلى أنه " شدد على مطالبته الحاسمة للنظام السوري بضرورة وقف العنف فوراً كما جاء في قرار وزراء الخارجية العرب " أول من أمس.
وأشارت مصادر إلى أن " العربي كشف للوفد أنه عرض على الرئيس الأسد استضافته في لقاء لكامل أطياف سورية في مقر الجامعة في القاهرة، لكن الأسد طلب أن يكون اللقاء في دمشق.
و مثل وفد المعارضة الذي حضر اللقاء مع العربي النائب السابق محمد مأمون الحمصي، والقيادي في "الحركة الوطنية الكردية" الشيخ مرشد الخزنوي، ونائب رئيس " اتحاد العشائر السورية " الشيخ إسماعيل الخالدي، ومدير " منظمة سواسية لحقوق الإنسان" في سورية بسام إسحاق، والقيادي في " تجمع 15 آذار من أجل الديموقراطية " الدكتور منذر ماخوس، والكاتب والناشط السياسي " قهار رامكو" ، والناشط الحقوقي " فارس الشوفي "، والناشطة المصرية " أميرة الرفاعي ".
A delegation from the opposition recognizes "al-Arabi" most notably the eight demands to ban air and sea and freeze the membership of Syria
http://www.aksalser.com/index.php?page=view_news&id=f0407faebb5860632f8579034e6934b5&ar=352034213
Thursday - September 15 - 2011 - 16:47:35
Met a delegation from the Syrian opposition is currently visiting Egypt of the Secretary-General of the Arab League, Dr. Nabil Arabi yesterday. And gave him a paper with eight demands, the most important to freeze the membership at the Arab League of Damascus, and the air and sea blockade to stop the "suppression of protests in Syria."
The delegation also asked for "de-legitimize the Syrian regime, and the creation of mechanisms and methods are necessary to stop the killings and repression, and the withdrawal of all the teams of military and security forces from the cities and provinces and villages that spread out and the right of peaceful demonstration, and a mechanism to enable the entry of international relief organizations to all areas, especially affected areas, and enable the international commissions of inquiry and Arab from entering the country to investigate the facts, and the empowerment of the Arab media and international enter Syria to cover the events. "
And the transfer of members of the delegation from the Arab saying that "the situation in Syria cannot continue on this case," and that "the human rights situation is no longer an internal affair, but externally."
They pointed out that, "stressed the crucial demand of the Syrian regime should immediately halt the violence as stated in the decision of the Arab foreign ministers," the day before yesterday.
The sources pointed out that "the discovery of the Arab delegation that was shown to President Assad in a meeting hosted for the entire spectrum of Syria in the Arab League headquarters in Cairo, but al-Assad demanded to have the meeting in Damascus.
Like the opposition delegation, who attended the meeting with the Arab former MP Muhammad Mamoun Al-Homsi, and leader of the "Kurdish national movement," Sheikh Morshed Khaznawi, Vice President of the "Union of tribal Syrian" Sheikh Ismail Khalidi, the director of "the equal human rights" in Syria Bassam Isaac, and leadership in the "Coalition of 15 March for Democracy" Dr. Munther Majos, writer and political activist, "Kahar Ramco," and human rights activist, "Knight Shoufi", the Egyptian activist and "princess-Rifai."
Syria Protests al-Arabi's Meeting Representatives of Syrian Opposition, Serious Precedent in terms of Joint Arab Action (Arab League)
http://www.sana.sy/eng/337/2011/09/15/369639.htm
. . . I cannot but express strong dissatisfaction about leaking information about your meeting with President Bashar al-Assad on September 10th, 2011 in such sensitive time which damaged the confidence. . .
"What provoked our extreme concern is your statements on Wednesday September, 14, 2011 about sending committees to Syria which fully contradict your decision to abandon your report on your visit to Syria and your meeting with President al-Assad which provided for forming a high-level AL Secretariat General delegation to visit the Syrian governorates and know more about the reality of what is taking place with official guarantees for free transportation and providing protection for the delegation members," . . .
the news leaks attributed to you regarding a national dialogue conference and your proposal to be held out of Syria greatly contradicts your report to the AL Council presented on September 13th , 2011 which stressed on launching a national dialogue in Syria with the participation of the AL according to a certain mechanism. . .
what was attributed to you, after your meeting, of implicit suggestions encouraging and inciting external interference in Syrian affairs, especially in terms of considering what is happening in Syria is no longer an internal affair, but an external one, So we are surprised. . .
داوود أوغلو ينفي تسليم تركيا للمقدم " المنشق " حسين هرموش
Davutoglu Turkey denies the delivery of the presenter "dissident" Hussein Harmoush
http://www.aksalser.com/index.php?page=view_news&id=fc181092f38eaf3457f0c21d2986a002&ar=461038134
Turkey blamed after defector is returned to Syria
Lieutenant Colonel Hussein al-Harmoush was first senior military officer to defect during anti-Assad uprising
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/sep/15/turkey-blamed-defector-returned-to-syria
Martin Chulov
Thursday 15 September 2011 20.06 BST
Wissam Tarif from the human rights organisation Avaaz said he had been told that Turkish officials had traded Harmoush for nine members of the PKK Kurdish militant group, which Turkey has proscribed as a terrorist organisation.
"We have heard from the Kurds that there has been a deal done," he said. "The Turks have been extremely interested in finding ways to clearly define the Kurdish role inside the [Syrian opposition] transitional council."
A spokesman for the Turkish government said that he had no information about Harmoush. When asked on Thursday in Cairo about the missing officer, Turkey's prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, did not respond.
Harmoush: I didn't receive any orders to fire at civilians… armed groups were the killers
http://www.sana.sy/eng/337/2011/09/15/369669.htm
http://www.sana.sy/ara/336/2011/09/15/369664.htm
Sep 15, 2011
Interview of Harmoush broadcast by the Syrian TV
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2KHlZ4gM70
Sep 15 International
Libya, Syria may become terrorist strongholds: Russian official
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2011-09/14/c_131138856.htm
مصادر : موسكو اقترحت مؤتمراً موسعاً للحوار وافقت عليه المعارضة ورفضته القيادة السورية
http://www.aksalser.com/index.php?page=view_news&id=bd7bf743a5f732bb6a297718e6bcc0d6&ar=62301869
الخميس - 15 أيلول - 2011 - 16:35:15
نقلت صحيفة الحياة اللندنية عن مصادر رسمية لبنانية قولها " أن المبعوث الخاص للرئيس الروسي رئيس لجنة الشؤون الدولية في مجلس الشيوخ ميخائيل مارغيلوف أبلغ مسؤولين لبنانيين كبار أن موسكو اقترحت على أطراف الأزمة في سورية استضافة مؤتمر موسع للحوار ، وافقت عليه المعارضة و رفضته القيادة السورية .
وأوضحت المصادر أن " مارغيلوف " الذي زار بيروت أول من أمس والتقى كبار المسؤولين اللبنانيين قال إن " الجانب الروسي اقترح عقد المؤتمر على أن يحضره جميع أطياف المعارضة السورية، بمن فيهم الإخوان المسلمون، في موسكو أو قبرص أو أي مكان آخر يتم الاتفاق عليه ".
و ذكرت المصادر أن مارغيلوف قال لمحدثيه إن " قادة المعارضة الذين زاروا موسكو واجتمع هو معهم، وافقوا على عقد هذا المؤتمر، لكن مستشارة الرئيس بشار الأسد الإعلامية والسياسية الدكتورة بثينة شعبان، رفضت الاقتراح وكررت القول إن الموضوع الأساسي هو أن سورية تتعرض الى مؤامرة صهيونية - أميركية وليس موضوع الحوار مع المعارضة ".
Sources: Moscow has proposed an expanded conference for dialogue and agreed to by the opposition and rejected by the Syrian leadership
http://www.aksalser.com/index.php?page=view_news&id=bd7bf743a5f732bb6a297718e6bcc0d6&ar=62301869
Thursday - September 15 - 2011 - 16:35:15
Newspaper al-Hayat on Lebanese official sources as saying that "the Special Envoy of the President of the Russian President for International Affairs Committee in the Senate, Mikhail Margelov told top Lebanese officials that Moscow proposed to the parties to the crisis in Syria to host conference expanded dialogue, and agreed to by the opposition and rejected by the Syrian leadership.
The sources pointed out that the "upper house", who visited Beirut the day before yesterday and met with senior Lebanese officials said that "the Russian side proposed to hold a conference to be attended by all sections of the Syrian opposition, including the Muslim Brotherhood, in Moscow or Cyprus or any other venue agreed upon."
And sources said that Margelov told his interlocutors that "the opposition leaders who visited Moscow and met is with them, they agreed to hold this conference, but the advisor to President Bashar al-Assad's media and political Dr. Shaaban, rejected the proposal and reiterated that the underlying theme is that Syria is exposed to a Zionist conspiracy - American and not the subject of dialogue with the opposition. "
Russia for dialogue, not sanctions, in Syria
http://english.ruvr.ru/2011/09/15/56202197.html
Sep 15, 2011 12:31 Moscow Time
What is happening in Syria is the unilateral use of force, Russia's Permanent Representative to the European Union Vladimir Chizhov told reporters in Brussels.
Arab world turmoil: time for shuttle policy
http://english.ruvr.ru/2011/09/15/56205823.html
Ricardo Young
Sep 15, 2011 13:22 Moscow Time
Sergei Strokan, a Moscow-based correspondent for the Kommersant newspaper, talks about a special trip that Russian Presidential Envoy to Africa Mikhail Margelov to Egypt and Libya. There now appears to be a significant gap between the group of Western countries, including the US, on one side, and Russia, China, Brazil and South Africa, on the other, who deems to be at loggerheads over the issue of Syria and the general take on the developments in the Arab world. So, Mr. Strokan believes we are still to witness a lot of behind-the-scenes diplomatic maneuvering and that type of shuttle visits.
مسؤول روسي: سنعلق التعاون العسكري التقني مع دمشق في حال فرض عقوبات دولية عليها
http://arabic.rt.com/news_all_news/news/566791
قال دميترييف خلال مؤتمر صحفي في مدينة يكاتيرينبورغ ان"أية عقوبات دولية تفرض قيودا على التعاون العسكري التقني. وإذا فرضت عقوبات على سورية، فسيتم تعليق التعاون معها فورا".
روسيا ستواصل التعاون مع إيران في المجال العسكري التقني
Russian official: We will suspend military-technical cooperation with Damascus in the event of international sanctions
http://arabic.rt.com/news_all_news/news/566791
Dmitriyev said at a news conference in the city of Akatirinburg that "any international sanctions imposed restrictions on military-technical cooperation. And if imposed sanctions on Syria, will be suspended cooperation with it immediately."
Russia will continue cooperation with Iran in the field of military technical
Belarus suspected of helping Iran skirt sanctions
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/2011/Sep-15/148829-belarus-suspected-of-helping-iran-skirt-sanctions.ashx
September 15, 2011 12:50 PM
Reuters
UNITED NATIONS: Belarus is the latest country that Western powers suspect of helping Iran skirt U.N. sanctions aimed at preventing it from expanding its ballistic missile and nuclear programs, Western diplomats told Reuters.
If the suspicions are confirmed, the already isolated Belarus would join China, Russia, Syria, North Korea, Turkey and other states Western powers believe have helped Tehran flout U.N. measures since the Security Council adopted its first sanctions resolution against Iran in late 2006.
Belarus helps Iran to By-Pass UN Sanctions, West (report by a Belarussian newspaper)
http://telegraf.by/en/2011/09/zapad-belarus-pomogaet-iranu-obhodit-sankcii-oon
European Parliament Calls on Assad to Step Down 'Immediately'
http://www.naharnet.com/stories/en/15097-european-parliament-calls-on-assad-to-step-down-immediately
Report: The Vatican to Study, Evaluate al-Rahi's Statements
http://www.naharnet.com/stories/en/15030-report-the-vatican-to-study-evaluate-al-rahis-statements
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2011-09/14/c_131138856.htm
مصادر : موسكو اقترحت مؤتمراً موسعاً للحوار وافقت عليه المعارضة ورفضته القيادة السورية
http://www.aksalser.com/index.php?page=view_news&id=bd7bf743a5f732bb6a297718e6bcc0d6&ar=62301869
الخميس - 15 أيلول - 2011 - 16:35:15
نقلت صحيفة الحياة اللندنية عن مصادر رسمية لبنانية قولها " أن المبعوث الخاص للرئيس الروسي رئيس لجنة الشؤون الدولية في مجلس الشيوخ ميخائيل مارغيلوف أبلغ مسؤولين لبنانيين كبار أن موسكو اقترحت على أطراف الأزمة في سورية استضافة مؤتمر موسع للحوار ، وافقت عليه المعارضة و رفضته القيادة السورية .
وأوضحت المصادر أن " مارغيلوف " الذي زار بيروت أول من أمس والتقى كبار المسؤولين اللبنانيين قال إن " الجانب الروسي اقترح عقد المؤتمر على أن يحضره جميع أطياف المعارضة السورية، بمن فيهم الإخوان المسلمون، في موسكو أو قبرص أو أي مكان آخر يتم الاتفاق عليه ".
و ذكرت المصادر أن مارغيلوف قال لمحدثيه إن " قادة المعارضة الذين زاروا موسكو واجتمع هو معهم، وافقوا على عقد هذا المؤتمر، لكن مستشارة الرئيس بشار الأسد الإعلامية والسياسية الدكتورة بثينة شعبان، رفضت الاقتراح وكررت القول إن الموضوع الأساسي هو أن سورية تتعرض الى مؤامرة صهيونية - أميركية وليس موضوع الحوار مع المعارضة ".
Sources: Moscow has proposed an expanded conference for dialogue and agreed to by the opposition and rejected by the Syrian leadership
http://www.aksalser.com/index.php?page=view_news&id=bd7bf743a5f732bb6a297718e6bcc0d6&ar=62301869
Thursday - September 15 - 2011 - 16:35:15
Newspaper al-Hayat on Lebanese official sources as saying that "the Special Envoy of the President of the Russian President for International Affairs Committee in the Senate, Mikhail Margelov told top Lebanese officials that Moscow proposed to the parties to the crisis in Syria to host conference expanded dialogue, and agreed to by the opposition and rejected by the Syrian leadership.
The sources pointed out that the "upper house", who visited Beirut the day before yesterday and met with senior Lebanese officials said that "the Russian side proposed to hold a conference to be attended by all sections of the Syrian opposition, including the Muslim Brotherhood, in Moscow or Cyprus or any other venue agreed upon."
And sources said that Margelov told his interlocutors that "the opposition leaders who visited Moscow and met is with them, they agreed to hold this conference, but the advisor to President Bashar al-Assad's media and political Dr. Shaaban, rejected the proposal and reiterated that the underlying theme is that Syria is exposed to a Zionist conspiracy - American and not the subject of dialogue with the opposition. "
Russia for dialogue, not sanctions, in Syria
http://english.ruvr.ru/2011/09/15/56202197.html
Sep 15, 2011 12:31 Moscow Time
What is happening in Syria is the unilateral use of force, Russia's Permanent Representative to the European Union Vladimir Chizhov told reporters in Brussels.
Arab world turmoil: time for shuttle policy
http://english.ruvr.ru/2011/09/15/56205823.html
Ricardo Young
Sep 15, 2011 13:22 Moscow Time
Sergei Strokan, a Moscow-based correspondent for the Kommersant newspaper, talks about a special trip that Russian Presidential Envoy to Africa Mikhail Margelov to Egypt and Libya. There now appears to be a significant gap between the group of Western countries, including the US, on one side, and Russia, China, Brazil and South Africa, on the other, who deems to be at loggerheads over the issue of Syria and the general take on the developments in the Arab world. So, Mr. Strokan believes we are still to witness a lot of behind-the-scenes diplomatic maneuvering and that type of shuttle visits.
مسؤول روسي: سنعلق التعاون العسكري التقني مع دمشق في حال فرض عقوبات دولية عليها
http://arabic.rt.com/news_all_news/news/566791
قال دميترييف خلال مؤتمر صحفي في مدينة يكاتيرينبورغ ان"أية عقوبات دولية تفرض قيودا على التعاون العسكري التقني. وإذا فرضت عقوبات على سورية، فسيتم تعليق التعاون معها فورا".
روسيا ستواصل التعاون مع إيران في المجال العسكري التقني
Russian official: We will suspend military-technical cooperation with Damascus in the event of international sanctions
http://arabic.rt.com/news_all_news/news/566791
Dmitriyev said at a news conference in the city of Akatirinburg that "any international sanctions imposed restrictions on military-technical cooperation. And if imposed sanctions on Syria, will be suspended cooperation with it immediately."
Russia will continue cooperation with Iran in the field of military technical
Belarus suspected of helping Iran skirt sanctions
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/2011/Sep-15/148829-belarus-suspected-of-helping-iran-skirt-sanctions.ashx
September 15, 2011 12:50 PM
Reuters
UNITED NATIONS: Belarus is the latest country that Western powers suspect of helping Iran skirt U.N. sanctions aimed at preventing it from expanding its ballistic missile and nuclear programs, Western diplomats told Reuters.
If the suspicions are confirmed, the already isolated Belarus would join China, Russia, Syria, North Korea, Turkey and other states Western powers believe have helped Tehran flout U.N. measures since the Security Council adopted its first sanctions resolution against Iran in late 2006.
Belarus helps Iran to By-Pass UN Sanctions, West (report by a Belarussian newspaper)
http://telegraf.by/en/2011/09/zapad-belarus-pomogaet-iranu-obhodit-sankcii-oon
European Parliament Calls on Assad to Step Down 'Immediately'
http://www.naharnet.com/stories/en/15097-european-parliament-calls-on-assad-to-step-down-immediately
Report: The Vatican to Study, Evaluate al-Rahi's Statements
http://www.naharnet.com/stories/en/15030-report-the-vatican-to-study-evaluate-al-rahis-statements
Sep 15 Gold import, denial of forged banknotes
يفكر بحصر استيراد الذهب بالمركزي...الجليلاتي لـ«الوطن»: مايهم الصاغة التهريب أكثر من الاستيراد!!...الصاغة: كلام الوزير عن التصدير غير صحيح
Thought to limit import of gold for the CBE board ... Aljalilati «alwatan.sy»: Mayhem goldsmiths smuggling more than import !!... goldsmiths: the minister's talk about export is incorrect
http://www.alwatan.sy/dindex.php?idn=108533
http://backupurl.com/iwcv2l
Mayyaleh Refutes Allegations of Circulation of Counterfeit SYP 500 Notes
مياله ينفي وجود أوراق نقدية مزورة من فئة 500 ليرة
http://www.sana.sy/eng/24/2011/09/15/369478.htm
http://www.sana.sy/ara/4/2011/09/15/369477.htm
Thought to limit import of gold for the CBE board ... Aljalilati «alwatan.sy»: Mayhem goldsmiths smuggling more than import !!... goldsmiths: the minister's talk about export is incorrect
http://www.alwatan.sy/dindex.php?idn=108533
http://backupurl.com/iwcv2l
Mayyaleh Refutes Allegations of Circulation of Counterfeit SYP 500 Notes
مياله ينفي وجود أوراق نقدية مزورة من فئة 500 ليرة
http://www.sana.sy/eng/24/2011/09/15/369478.htm
http://www.sana.sy/ara/4/2011/09/15/369477.htm
Sep 15 National dialogue (cont.)
مؤتمر لـ«هيئة التنسيق الوطنية» المعارضة السبت القادم بدمشق
Conference for «national coordinating body» the opposition next Saturday in Damascus
http://www.alwatan.sy/dindex.php?idn=108571
http://backupurl.com/bmy5f1
الحوار في المحافظات يستمر بسخونة عالية...محاورون يتهمون قيادات البعث بتغليب «الانتهازيين».. وآخرون يرون أن «عصر التصفيق ولى».. والبعض يعتبر أن المسؤولين السابقين «نهبوا» البلد وتحولوا إلى حجاج بعد خروجهم
National Dialogue continues in the provinces heat high ... interlocutors accuse the leaders of the Baath prevail «opportunists» .. Others see that «the applause is over the age of» .. The other is that the former officials «looted» country and converted to pilgrims after their release
(firece debate in the governorate level of the National Dialogue)
http://www.alwatan.sy/dindex.php?idn=108563
http://backupurl.com/g9e5io
National Dialogue Sessions Continue in the Syrian Provinces and Universities
جلسات الحوار في المحافظات والجامعات: إعادة النظر بالنهج الاقتصادي وتفعيل الشباب والتواصل بين القوى السياسية لوضع استراتيجية وطنية للبناء والمقاومة
http://www.sana.sy/eng/21/2011/09/15/369456.htm
http://www.sana.sy/ara/2/2011/09/15/369654.htm
Conference for «national coordinating body» the opposition next Saturday in Damascus
http://www.alwatan.sy/dindex.php?idn=108571
http://backupurl.com/bmy5f1
الحوار في المحافظات يستمر بسخونة عالية...محاورون يتهمون قيادات البعث بتغليب «الانتهازيين».. وآخرون يرون أن «عصر التصفيق ولى».. والبعض يعتبر أن المسؤولين السابقين «نهبوا» البلد وتحولوا إلى حجاج بعد خروجهم
National Dialogue continues in the provinces heat high ... interlocutors accuse the leaders of the Baath prevail «opportunists» .. Others see that «the applause is over the age of» .. The other is that the former officials «looted» country and converted to pilgrims after their release
(firece debate in the governorate level of the National Dialogue)
http://www.alwatan.sy/dindex.php?idn=108563
http://backupurl.com/g9e5io
National Dialogue Sessions Continue in the Syrian Provinces and Universities
جلسات الحوار في المحافظات والجامعات: إعادة النظر بالنهج الاقتصادي وتفعيل الشباب والتواصل بين القوى السياسية لوضع استراتيجية وطنية للبناء والمقاومة
http://www.sana.sy/eng/21/2011/09/15/369456.htm
http://www.sana.sy/ara/2/2011/09/15/369654.htm
Sep 15 National Council was formed
Syrian opposition reveals makeup of national council
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2011-09/15/c_131140986.htm
English.news.cn 2011-09-15 19:52:48
TURKEY-ISTANBUL-SYRIA
Basma Kadmani, a Paris-based Syrian opposition member speaks at a press conference held in Istanbul on Sept. 15, 2011. Members of the Syrian opposition managed to put aside their differences and agreed on the makeup of the National Council in Turkey's largest city Istanbul on Thursday. (Xinhua/Ma yan)
ISTANBUL, Sept. 15 (Xinhua) -- Members of the Syrian opposition managed to put aside their differences and agreed on the makeup of the National Council in Turkey's largest city Istanbul on Thursday.
The council will broadly be based on the principle of representing different sections of the Syrian society, according to Dr. Halit Hoca, a member of the council.
For example, 30 percent of the council members may be from Islamic-leaning groups, 30 percent left-leaning groups and 40 percent from various ethnic groups present in Syria, he said, adding that they didn't want to be rigid about percentages.
Hoca said that the council is made up of 65 people who live outside Syria and 70 from inside at the moment, although this number will be open to expansion as new figures will join the council.
"Everyone who is committed to our basic principles is welcome to join the council," said Yasser Tabbara, an independent member of the council.
Tabbara told Xinhua that the basic principles of the council consist of toppling Bashar al-Assad's regime, commitment to peaceful nature of the revolution, opposition to any foreign intervention and maintaining the national unity of Syria.
He also said it is unlikely that the council will see eye-to-eye with the recently formed party named "the Current for Building up the Syrian State" in Damascus since the council would not work with anyone who negotiated with the Assad government.
The various positions in the National Council will be determined after an election process is completed in the next few weeks, said Tabbara.
Syrian dissidents first announced the formation of the council in Istanbul on Aug. 23.
"The council sees three stages in the near future consisting of changing the regime, post-regime transition and then the future political path," said Bassmah Ghodami, a Paris-based Syrian opposition member.
Ghodami said each stage is expected to last six months but the timeframe is flexible depending on events on the ground.
Another aim of the council is to create a political umbrella for Syria's rebels, according to Ghodami.
Imadettin Rashid, another member of the council, said they want a civil and modern government, which protects human rights, and new constitution that will guarantee equal rights of every Syrian citizen.
He also said the Syrian army's role will be protecting the country's borders and will not be politicized.
Anti-regime Syrians release council list
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/n.php?n=anti-regime-syrians--release-council-list-2011-09-15
Thursday, September 15, 2011
Selim Akan
ISTANBUL - Hürriyet Daily News
Syrian opposition members have unveiled a list of 140 dissidents for a "national council" that will aim to topple the present regime through peaceful means and set up a modern state while ensuring civil rights, according to members of the group.
"We are aiming to topple the [Bashar] al-Assad regime while protecting the institutions of the state," the council's spokeswoman, Basma Kadmani, said Thursday during a meeting in Istanbul.
There will be a three-phase transition period in replacing the regime, Kadmani said. "The first phase, which we are already experiencing, includes the collapse of the regime. The second phase will include the replacement of the old regime with the new one and last phase is the establishment of a transitional government."
The council will have 140 members, 40 percent of whom are based outside Syria. A list of 72 members was announced but the names of those inside Syria were mostly withheld to protect them from possible reprisals by Assad's security forces.
Kadmani said they were against foreign intervention to the ongoing crackdown in Syria and added that she expected defections among high-ranking soldiers in the next few months.
"The military will not intervene in politics in the new Syria and the regime will have a separation of powers, freedom of the press and respect for human rights," said İmad Eldin Rasid, a member of the council.
He also said countries including Russia, Canada, Japan and the Netherlands had declared their intentions to send diplomats as observers to the Istanbul meeting; only Canada and Japan's representatives were present at the event, however.
On the ground, as Syria marked six months since anti-regime protests began, security forces shot dead eight people, including a child, in a huge sweep Wednesday against anti-regime protesters in the country's northwest.
Armed with heavy machine guns, the forces cut off roads leading to the Jabal al-Zawiya villages of Baliun, Marayan, Ihsem, Al-Rami and Ibleen, setting up checkpoints and arresting several people, said the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. Four people were killed and dozens more wounded in the operation, it said, adding that 100 people were arrested, including the family of Riad al-Assad, a soldier who defected.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2011-09/15/c_131140986.htm
English.news.cn 2011-09-15 19:52:48
TURKEY-ISTANBUL-SYRIA
Basma Kadmani, a Paris-based Syrian opposition member speaks at a press conference held in Istanbul on Sept. 15, 2011. Members of the Syrian opposition managed to put aside their differences and agreed on the makeup of the National Council in Turkey's largest city Istanbul on Thursday. (Xinhua/Ma yan)
ISTANBUL, Sept. 15 (Xinhua) -- Members of the Syrian opposition managed to put aside their differences and agreed on the makeup of the National Council in Turkey's largest city Istanbul on Thursday.
The council will broadly be based on the principle of representing different sections of the Syrian society, according to Dr. Halit Hoca, a member of the council.
For example, 30 percent of the council members may be from Islamic-leaning groups, 30 percent left-leaning groups and 40 percent from various ethnic groups present in Syria, he said, adding that they didn't want to be rigid about percentages.
Hoca said that the council is made up of 65 people who live outside Syria and 70 from inside at the moment, although this number will be open to expansion as new figures will join the council.
"Everyone who is committed to our basic principles is welcome to join the council," said Yasser Tabbara, an independent member of the council.
Tabbara told Xinhua that the basic principles of the council consist of toppling Bashar al-Assad's regime, commitment to peaceful nature of the revolution, opposition to any foreign intervention and maintaining the national unity of Syria.
He also said it is unlikely that the council will see eye-to-eye with the recently formed party named "the Current for Building up the Syrian State" in Damascus since the council would not work with anyone who negotiated with the Assad government.
The various positions in the National Council will be determined after an election process is completed in the next few weeks, said Tabbara.
Syrian dissidents first announced the formation of the council in Istanbul on Aug. 23.
"The council sees three stages in the near future consisting of changing the regime, post-regime transition and then the future political path," said Bassmah Ghodami, a Paris-based Syrian opposition member.
Ghodami said each stage is expected to last six months but the timeframe is flexible depending on events on the ground.
Another aim of the council is to create a political umbrella for Syria's rebels, according to Ghodami.
Imadettin Rashid, another member of the council, said they want a civil and modern government, which protects human rights, and new constitution that will guarantee equal rights of every Syrian citizen.
He also said the Syrian army's role will be protecting the country's borders and will not be politicized.
Anti-regime Syrians release council list
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/n.php?n=anti-regime-syrians--release-council-list-2011-09-15
Thursday, September 15, 2011
Selim Akan
ISTANBUL - Hürriyet Daily News
Syrian opposition members have unveiled a list of 140 dissidents for a "national council" that will aim to topple the present regime through peaceful means and set up a modern state while ensuring civil rights, according to members of the group.
"We are aiming to topple the [Bashar] al-Assad regime while protecting the institutions of the state," the council's spokeswoman, Basma Kadmani, said Thursday during a meeting in Istanbul.
There will be a three-phase transition period in replacing the regime, Kadmani said. "The first phase, which we are already experiencing, includes the collapse of the regime. The second phase will include the replacement of the old regime with the new one and last phase is the establishment of a transitional government."
The council will have 140 members, 40 percent of whom are based outside Syria. A list of 72 members was announced but the names of those inside Syria were mostly withheld to protect them from possible reprisals by Assad's security forces.
Kadmani said they were against foreign intervention to the ongoing crackdown in Syria and added that she expected defections among high-ranking soldiers in the next few months.
"The military will not intervene in politics in the new Syria and the regime will have a separation of powers, freedom of the press and respect for human rights," said İmad Eldin Rasid, a member of the council.
He also said countries including Russia, Canada, Japan and the Netherlands had declared their intentions to send diplomats as observers to the Istanbul meeting; only Canada and Japan's representatives were present at the event, however.
On the ground, as Syria marked six months since anti-regime protests began, security forces shot dead eight people, including a child, in a huge sweep Wednesday against anti-regime protesters in the country's northwest.
Armed with heavy machine guns, the forces cut off roads leading to the Jabal al-Zawiya villages of Baliun, Marayan, Ihsem, Al-Rami and Ibleen, setting up checkpoints and arresting several people, said the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. Four people were killed and dozens more wounded in the operation, it said, adding that 100 people were arrested, including the family of Riad al-Assad, a soldier who defected.
Sep 15 Incidents
This video claims that Anas Bakkour, a nephew of former Attorney-General of Hama governorate, Mr Adnan Bakkour, who was either abducted or defected, was killed by the security forces in Kafranboudah, Hama, on Sep 12.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICNo2QBdAY8
Terrorists Confess to Opening Fire on Protestors to Frame Security Forces (Damascus al-Ghoutah, al-Jablah)
http://www.sana.sy/eng/337/2011/09/15/369461.htm
Armed Terrorist Group Attacks Citizen's Car, Murders One of His Sons and Wounds the Other (al-Rastan, Homs)
http://www.sana.sy/eng/337/2011/09/15/369480.htm
العثور على 13 جثة بينها عسكري في مناطق متفرقة من حمص
Found 13 bodies, including military, in different parts of Homs (mass grave)
http://www.aksalser.com/index.php?page=view_articles&id=335da3474099803c9b9b4a6c9768bda9&h=%CD%E3%D5&ar=459536902
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICNo2QBdAY8
Terrorists Confess to Opening Fire on Protestors to Frame Security Forces (Damascus al-Ghoutah, al-Jablah)
http://www.sana.sy/eng/337/2011/09/15/369461.htm
Armed Terrorist Group Attacks Citizen's Car, Murders One of His Sons and Wounds the Other (al-Rastan, Homs)
http://www.sana.sy/eng/337/2011/09/15/369480.htm
العثور على 13 جثة بينها عسكري في مناطق متفرقة من حمص
Found 13 bodies, including military, in different parts of Homs (mass grave)
http://www.aksalser.com/index.php?page=view_articles&id=335da3474099803c9b9b4a6c9768bda9&h=%CD%E3%D5&ar=459536902
2011/09/14
Sep 14 Others
اخوان مصر يحذرون اردوغان من السعي للهيمنة على الشرق الاوسط
Egypt Brotherhood Erdogan warned against seeking to dominate the Middle East
http://www.aksalser.com/index.php?page=view_news&id=6460e025a39ce9d1c4c5998b5e3f981a&ar=134623280
Wednesday - September 14 - 2011 - 18:11:49
'Saudi armored vehicles enter Yemen'
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/199172.html
Wed Sep 14, 2011 6:4PM
Saudi Arabia has reportedly dispatched a convoy of armored vehicles and military assistance to Yemen to help Sana'a crack down on the popular revolution.
Sources affiliated with the Yemeni opposition were cited by the independent pan-Arab daily Al-Quds Al-Arabi as saying, "A motorcade of Saudi armored vehicles and military aid entered the Yemeni soil to help the forces of the regime of [Yemen's] Ali Abdullah Saleh," Mehr News Agency reported on Wednesday.
Lebanses Hotels devastated by poor tourist season
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/Business/Lebanon/2011/Sep-14/148695-hotels-devastated-by-poor-tourist-season.ashx
September 14, 2011 01:39 AM (Last updated: September 14, 2011 09:14 AM)
By Tamara Qiblawi
The Daily Star
BEIRUT: Lebanon's hotel sector has seen revenues plummet by 38 percent in 2011, Hotel Owners Association chief Pierre Achkar told The Daily Star. Regional and domestic unrest were the main culprits behind poor performance in the industry this year, pushing tourists normally bound for Beirut to other Near Eastern destinations, mainly Turkey.
Egypt Brotherhood Erdogan warned against seeking to dominate the Middle East
http://www.aksalser.com/index.php?page=view_news&id=6460e025a39ce9d1c4c5998b5e3f981a&ar=134623280
Wednesday - September 14 - 2011 - 18:11:49
'Saudi armored vehicles enter Yemen'
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/199172.html
Wed Sep 14, 2011 6:4PM
Saudi Arabia has reportedly dispatched a convoy of armored vehicles and military assistance to Yemen to help Sana'a crack down on the popular revolution.
Sources affiliated with the Yemeni opposition were cited by the independent pan-Arab daily Al-Quds Al-Arabi as saying, "A motorcade of Saudi armored vehicles and military aid entered the Yemeni soil to help the forces of the regime of [Yemen's] Ali Abdullah Saleh," Mehr News Agency reported on Wednesday.
Lebanses Hotels devastated by poor tourist season
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/Business/Lebanon/2011/Sep-14/148695-hotels-devastated-by-poor-tourist-season.ashx
September 14, 2011 01:39 AM (Last updated: September 14, 2011 09:14 AM)
By Tamara Qiblawi
The Daily Star
BEIRUT: Lebanon's hotel sector has seen revenues plummet by 38 percent in 2011, Hotel Owners Association chief Pierre Achkar told The Daily Star. Regional and domestic unrest were the main culprits behind poor performance in the industry this year, pushing tourists normally bound for Beirut to other Near Eastern destinations, mainly Turkey.
Sep 14 Economy
CBS: SYP/USD Exchange Rate Increases by 0.27 %, Improvement in Euro Trading
تقرير (المركزي) الأسبوعي: الدولار يرتفع أمام الليرة 35 قرشاً واليورو ينخفض 13 قرشاً
http://www.sana.sy/eng/24/2011/09/14/369410.htm
http://www.sana.sy/ara/82/2011/09/14/369351.htm
Sep 14, 2011
DAMASCUS, (SANA) - The SYP/USD opened the week's trade at 47.69 and closed at 48.04, recording a 0.27 % increase, while the Euro started off the weekly trading at 67.72 and closed at SYP 67.59, with a 0.19 % drop.
(Black market rate is fluctuating somewhere around 52.50.)
Damascus stock price index for this week
12/Sep/2011 925.70 trading volume 61 thousand
13/Sep/2011 915.97 volume 109 thousand
14/Sep/2011 909.16 volume 78 thousand
(In a temporal measure, the market is open for 3 days a week only.)
16/Dec/2010 1752.50 (historial high)
14/Sep/2011 909.16 (historical low)
Weekly closing rates
19/May/2011 1323.11
26/May/2011 1256.80
02/Jun/2011 1234.13
09/Jun/2011 1136.82
16/Jun/2011 1133.09
23/Jun/2011 1057.36
30/Jun/2011 1031.04
07/Jul/2011 1067.50
14/Jul/2011 1032.62
21/Jul/2011 1010.06
28/Jul/2011 1013.81
04/Aug/2011 993.89
11/Aug/2011 950.89
17/Aug/2011 951.66
24/Aug/2011 950.73
29/Aug/2011 951.05
07/Sep/2011 933.34
14/Sep/2011 909.16 (51.8% decrease from historial high)
مناقصة سورية لشراء 100 ألف طن من القمح
Syria tender to buy 100 tons of soft wheat
http://www.aksalser.com/?page=view_news&id=1302fa093ea3eda35b47c8db74cef69d&ar=800672040
related article: http://backupurl.com/4m9lqv
انخفاض الصادرات السورية إلى تركيا بنسبة 7% منذ بداية العام 2011
الاربعاء - 14 أيلول - 2011 - 17:21:42
Decline of Syrian exports to Turkey increased by 7% since the beginning of 2011
http://www.aksalser.com/index.php?page=view_news&id=feecf4d1abf32fc4e8d48bf0774e5601&ar=894184969
Wednesday - September 14 - 2011 - 17:21:42
أظهرت إحصائيات التجارة الخارجية بين سورية وتركيا للأشهر السبعة الأولى من العام الجاري تفاوتاً كبيراً لجهة الحركة التجارية بين البلدين على صعيد الواردات والصادرات.
و نقلت مجلة الاقتصادي عن مصدر لها في الملحقية التجارية في السفارة التركية بدمشق قوله " في الوقت الذي انخفضت فيه الصادرات السورية إلى تركيا 7% في سبعة أشهر، ارتفعت الصادرات التركية إلى سورية 1.4% لنفس الفترة من 2011 ".
و بين المصدر أنّ " الصادرات السورية إلى تركيا بلغت 418.2 مليون دولار بين شهري كانون الثاني وتموز 2011 مسجلةً انخفاضاً قدره 7%، في حين بلغت 449.6 مليون دولار لنفس الفترة من العام 2010 ".
وارتفعت الصادرات التركية إلى سورية خلال نفس الفترة من العام الجاري بنسبة 1.4% وبلغت 1.006 مليون دولار، في حين بلغت 992.1 مليون دولار في الفترة نفسها من 2010.
و انخفضت الصادرات السورية إلى تركيا بنسبة 59.3 % ، خلال شهر حزيران الماضي ، و بلغت 48 مليون دولار في حين كانت قيمتها 118 مليون دولار في حزيران 2010 ، أما الصادرات التركية إلى سورية ولنفس الشهر فانخفضت هي الأخرى 18.1% وسجلت 113 مليون دولار، في حين بلغت 138 مليون دولار في حزيران 2010.
اللافت في الأمر أن نسبة التبادل التجاري عادت إلى مستواها الطبيعي وسجلت ارتفاعاً ملحوظاً في تموز الماضي على خلاف أرقام شهر حزيران، إذ ارتفعت الصادرات السورية إلى تركيا بنسبة 106.9% وبلغت74.1 مليون دولار بعد أن كانت 35.8 مليون دولار في تموز 2010، أما الصادرات التركية إلى سورية فسجلت في تموز ارتفاعاً قدره 17% وبلغت 196.4 مليون دولار، بعد أن بلغت 167.8 مليون دولار في تموز 2010.
Showed statistics of foreign trade between Syria and Turkey for the first seven months of this year varied considerably in terms of commercial traffic between the two countries at the level of imports and exports.
And economic magazine quoted a source in the commercial attaché at the Turkish Embassy in Damascus as saying "While the decline in Syrian exports to Turkey 7% in seven months, increased Turkish exports to Syria, 1.4% for the same period of 2011."
Between the source and that "the Syrian exports to Turkey amounted to 418.2 million dollars between January and July 2011 registered a decrease of 7%, while the value of $ 449.6 million for the same period in 2010."
And increased Turkish exports to Syria during the same period of the year by 1.4% and amounted to 1.006 million dollars, while the value of $ 992.1 million in the same period of 2010.
And decreased the Syrian exports to Turkey increased by 59.3% during the month of June, and reached $ 48 million while the value of $ 118 million in June 2010, while Turkish exports to Syria for the same month dropped the other 18.1% and recorded $ 113 million, while amounted to $ 138 million in June 2010.
Striking that the proportion of trade returned to normal and showed a remarkable increase last July, unlike numbers, the month of June, rising Syrian exports to Turkey increased by 106.9% and amounted to $ 74.1 million after the $ 35.8 million in July 2010, while Turkish exports to Syria, was registered in July, a rise of 17% and amounted to $ 196.4 million, after reaching $ 167.8 million in July 2010.
Syria's ports suffer as unrest hits economy
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/Business/Middle-East/2011/Sep-14/148756-syrias-ports-suffer-as-unrest-hits-economy.ashx
September 14, 2011 05:53 PM
By Suleiman al-Khalidi
Reuters
AMMAN: From his window on the corniche of Syria's Mediterranean port city of Tartous, an international shipper bemoans the change since a popular uprising six months ago engulfed the country and dealt a heavy blow to its economy.
"At night, ship lights made Tartous extend into a city on the sea; now it's like a small village. The port's sealine was full of vessels – now the berths are nearly empty," said the shipper, who opened an agency in Tartous to cash in on a boom in traffic after the Iraq war wound down.
Street protests demanding the removal of Syria's President Bashar Assad, many of them bloodily suppressed, have shrunk traffic at the country's ports and damaged its hopes of capitalizing on its position as a Middle East crossroads to grab a bigger share of transit business.
The exact extent to Syria's economy is being hurt by the unrest and resulting international sanctions is not clear; official data is scarce. But many analysts expect gross domestic product to decline this year, perhaps by several percent or more. At the start of this year, the International Monetary Fund predicted it would grow 3 percent.
Shippers and businessmen say exports have dropped as foreign customers have cut orders, while Syrian importers have delayed orders because of the uncertainty. Meanwhile, companies which used Syria as a conduit to conduct trade with other countries in the region are seeking different routes. Syria's principal port of Latakia, where the military deployed three months ago, has been hit hard along with Tartous.
"Even the Mediterranean cruise liners that came to Latakia and Tartous, and had hundreds of Italian and Spanish tourists, have not come this year," said the international shipper, who did not want to be named because of the sensitivity of the issue.
Shipping sources say traffic in general cargoes, dry and liquid bulk cargoes, and containers at Latakia and Tartous has been slipping since the uprising broke out in March. They estimate volumes shrank an average 35 to 40 percent from a year earlier in the first eight months of 2011.
"Importers and exporters are being very cautious, and that has led to imports of raw materials falling sharply as production slows down in many industries due to the troubles," a Syrian transportation official, who requested anonymity, told Reuters from Damascus.
Shipping agents and industry experts said container volumes, the vast majority of which are handled by Latakia, dropped in June alone by 36 percent from a year earlier to 33,527 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU).
Official Latakia port figures for the April-June period show a drop of 16 percent from a year earlier, but industry sources said this data was misleading because it included many containers with empty space.
In Tartous, which handles most of Syria's bulk cargoes, or nearly 9 million tons of annual traffic in normal times, shipping sources said some European operators were avoiding the port after the European Union announced sanctions on Syrian oil exports at the start of September.
They said they were also seeing less business from Iraqi and other Arab traders who were deterred by the increasing checkpoints and roadblocks in many parts of Syria.
"We had 25 to 30 vessels daily arriving. This has dropped to between 10 to five daily," said a major shipping agent based in Tartous, referring to vessels between 8,000 and 35,000 tons.
So far, major regular shipping lines such as Danish firm Maersk, French-based CMA CGM, Geneva-based MSC, and Germany's Hamburg Sud have largely maintained normal vessel calls to Syrian ports despite lower cargo volumes, industry sources said.
Shipping agents say the companies are reluctant to pull out of a transit market that has served the whole region and still has great long-term potential because of its location.
"No major regular shipping lines are quitting at the moment. Once they withdraw from any service, it's very hard to restore," said Talal Halawani, a shipper whose Amman-based Liberty Shipping is an agent of a leading Italian line.
"Although they are suffering because cargo is not like before, they are still operating normally despite all the constraints. It's a wait-and-see attitude."
But other regional companies with no regular services have less ability to sustain losses, and they have omitted port calls or cancelled visits to Syrian ports altogether.
"Liners that made container ship calls four times a month are now calling three times a month. Some regional liners, including one or two Turkish liners, have even dropped port calls altogether," said a second Syrian transportation official.
Some shippers are seeking to offset the drop in their Syrian trade by offering more competitive rates for container slots in nearby Beirut, Mersin and Alexandria ports, which are in the same Europe-Mediterranean service.
The turmoil has prompted many lines to suspend plans, some drawn up only a few months ago, to add more container slots or introduce bigger vessels on Syrian port calls in anticipation of demand related to the reconstruction of Iraq.
Over the past five years, Syrian ports were able to boost their transit trade with Iraq, Jordan and the Arabian peninsula as Syria's red tape and state controls, a legacy of five decades of Soviet-style economic management, were reduced.
Latakia and Tartous were also revitalized by the award of contracts to manage their container terminals to foreign investors in partnership with local investors linked to the Assad family.
The foreign investors – CMA CGM in Latakia, and the Philippines' International Container Terminal Services in Tartous – upgraded the facilities and helped to nearly double the ports' container traffic last year to 620,000 TEU from around 365,000 TEU in 2004.
Nearly 40 percent of Latakia's total incoming cargo volume has been Iraq-bound, shippers and Syrian transportation officials say, while for Tartous the figure has been as high as 70 percent.
Syrian ports' flexibility and lower costs gave them a competitive advantage in Iraq-related business against Turkish and Lebanese ports and and Jordan's Aqaba. Lower land transport costs were also a plus, along with the ability to bypass Suez Canal fees paid by importers using Jordanian and Saudi ports on the Red Sea.
Now, Iraqi, Jordanian and Saudi Arabian importers, who have used Syrian ports in recent years for bulk cargoes of wood, marble, steel and grains from the Black Sea area and North and Central Europe, are looking for alternatives.
"We are getting increasing inquiries from local and Iraqi traders who want to bring their goods to Jordan by sea from Turkey or other markets. This business traditionally would go to Syrian ports. Even goods that would normally go by land via Syria are now being shipped," said Captain Wahid Abu Ajamieh, general manager of CMA CGM Jordan.
"This is an indication that something odd is happening."
Syrian naphtha tender attracts no bids: traders
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/Business/Middle-East/2011/Sep-14/148752-syrian-naphtha-tender-attracts-no-bids-traders.ashx
September 14, 2011 04:00 PM
Reuters
LONDON: A Syrian tender to sell naphtha has attracted no bids due to EU and U.S. sanctions, traders said on Wednesday, refuting suggestions by some market players that small trading houses might chance a deal.
State-run oil marketer Sytrol issues tenders to sell naphtha and crude oil every month and European oil companies and traders typically win these.
This month Sytrol issued a tender to sell 50,000 tonnes of naphtha for loading on Sept 20 to Sept. 22 from Banias but there was no participants, traders said.
"They received no bids for the tender," one trader said. "No one wants it, not Europe nor Asia. They are starting to feel the sanctions."
Another trader said: "Syria is too politically sensitive for most players. Plus we are finding ship owners unwilling to go there too."
Late last week, Syria also issued a separate tender to sell crude oil for October loading. Several crude oil traders in Europe said they would not participate.
The European Union banned imports of Syria's oil on Saturday to put economic pressure on President Bashar al-Assad, while allowing fuel sales to Syria to continue.
Syrian oil under existing contracts can be still imported to the EU until Nov. 15.
Arab League states on Tuesday called for "immediate change" in Syria and an end to the violence after months of a government crackdown on pro-democracy protesters opposed to al-Assad's rule.
تقرير (المركزي) الأسبوعي: الدولار يرتفع أمام الليرة 35 قرشاً واليورو ينخفض 13 قرشاً
http://www.sana.sy/eng/24/2011/09/14/369410.htm
http://www.sana.sy/ara/82/2011/09/14/369351.htm
Sep 14, 2011
DAMASCUS, (SANA) - The SYP/USD opened the week's trade at 47.69 and closed at 48.04, recording a 0.27 % increase, while the Euro started off the weekly trading at 67.72 and closed at SYP 67.59, with a 0.19 % drop.
(Black market rate is fluctuating somewhere around 52.50.)
Damascus stock price index for this week
12/Sep/2011 925.70 trading volume 61 thousand
13/Sep/2011 915.97 volume 109 thousand
14/Sep/2011 909.16 volume 78 thousand
(In a temporal measure, the market is open for 3 days a week only.)
16/Dec/2010 1752.50 (historial high)
14/Sep/2011 909.16 (historical low)
Weekly closing rates
19/May/2011 1323.11
26/May/2011 1256.80
02/Jun/2011 1234.13
09/Jun/2011 1136.82
16/Jun/2011 1133.09
23/Jun/2011 1057.36
30/Jun/2011 1031.04
07/Jul/2011 1067.50
14/Jul/2011 1032.62
21/Jul/2011 1010.06
28/Jul/2011 1013.81
04/Aug/2011 993.89
11/Aug/2011 950.89
17/Aug/2011 951.66
24/Aug/2011 950.73
29/Aug/2011 951.05
07/Sep/2011 933.34
14/Sep/2011 909.16 (51.8% decrease from historial high)
مناقصة سورية لشراء 100 ألف طن من القمح
Syria tender to buy 100 tons of soft wheat
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انخفاض الصادرات السورية إلى تركيا بنسبة 7% منذ بداية العام 2011
الاربعاء - 14 أيلول - 2011 - 17:21:42
Decline of Syrian exports to Turkey increased by 7% since the beginning of 2011
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Wednesday - September 14 - 2011 - 17:21:42
أظهرت إحصائيات التجارة الخارجية بين سورية وتركيا للأشهر السبعة الأولى من العام الجاري تفاوتاً كبيراً لجهة الحركة التجارية بين البلدين على صعيد الواردات والصادرات.
و نقلت مجلة الاقتصادي عن مصدر لها في الملحقية التجارية في السفارة التركية بدمشق قوله " في الوقت الذي انخفضت فيه الصادرات السورية إلى تركيا 7% في سبعة أشهر، ارتفعت الصادرات التركية إلى سورية 1.4% لنفس الفترة من 2011 ".
و بين المصدر أنّ " الصادرات السورية إلى تركيا بلغت 418.2 مليون دولار بين شهري كانون الثاني وتموز 2011 مسجلةً انخفاضاً قدره 7%، في حين بلغت 449.6 مليون دولار لنفس الفترة من العام 2010 ".
وارتفعت الصادرات التركية إلى سورية خلال نفس الفترة من العام الجاري بنسبة 1.4% وبلغت 1.006 مليون دولار، في حين بلغت 992.1 مليون دولار في الفترة نفسها من 2010.
و انخفضت الصادرات السورية إلى تركيا بنسبة 59.3 % ، خلال شهر حزيران الماضي ، و بلغت 48 مليون دولار في حين كانت قيمتها 118 مليون دولار في حزيران 2010 ، أما الصادرات التركية إلى سورية ولنفس الشهر فانخفضت هي الأخرى 18.1% وسجلت 113 مليون دولار، في حين بلغت 138 مليون دولار في حزيران 2010.
اللافت في الأمر أن نسبة التبادل التجاري عادت إلى مستواها الطبيعي وسجلت ارتفاعاً ملحوظاً في تموز الماضي على خلاف أرقام شهر حزيران، إذ ارتفعت الصادرات السورية إلى تركيا بنسبة 106.9% وبلغت74.1 مليون دولار بعد أن كانت 35.8 مليون دولار في تموز 2010، أما الصادرات التركية إلى سورية فسجلت في تموز ارتفاعاً قدره 17% وبلغت 196.4 مليون دولار، بعد أن بلغت 167.8 مليون دولار في تموز 2010.
Showed statistics of foreign trade between Syria and Turkey for the first seven months of this year varied considerably in terms of commercial traffic between the two countries at the level of imports and exports.
And economic magazine quoted a source in the commercial attaché at the Turkish Embassy in Damascus as saying "While the decline in Syrian exports to Turkey 7% in seven months, increased Turkish exports to Syria, 1.4% for the same period of 2011."
Between the source and that "the Syrian exports to Turkey amounted to 418.2 million dollars between January and July 2011 registered a decrease of 7%, while the value of $ 449.6 million for the same period in 2010."
And increased Turkish exports to Syria during the same period of the year by 1.4% and amounted to 1.006 million dollars, while the value of $ 992.1 million in the same period of 2010.
And decreased the Syrian exports to Turkey increased by 59.3% during the month of June, and reached $ 48 million while the value of $ 118 million in June 2010, while Turkish exports to Syria for the same month dropped the other 18.1% and recorded $ 113 million, while amounted to $ 138 million in June 2010.
Striking that the proportion of trade returned to normal and showed a remarkable increase last July, unlike numbers, the month of June, rising Syrian exports to Turkey increased by 106.9% and amounted to $ 74.1 million after the $ 35.8 million in July 2010, while Turkish exports to Syria, was registered in July, a rise of 17% and amounted to $ 196.4 million, after reaching $ 167.8 million in July 2010.
Syria's ports suffer as unrest hits economy
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/Business/Middle-East/2011/Sep-14/148756-syrias-ports-suffer-as-unrest-hits-economy.ashx
September 14, 2011 05:53 PM
By Suleiman al-Khalidi
Reuters
AMMAN: From his window on the corniche of Syria's Mediterranean port city of Tartous, an international shipper bemoans the change since a popular uprising six months ago engulfed the country and dealt a heavy blow to its economy.
"At night, ship lights made Tartous extend into a city on the sea; now it's like a small village. The port's sealine was full of vessels – now the berths are nearly empty," said the shipper, who opened an agency in Tartous to cash in on a boom in traffic after the Iraq war wound down.
Street protests demanding the removal of Syria's President Bashar Assad, many of them bloodily suppressed, have shrunk traffic at the country's ports and damaged its hopes of capitalizing on its position as a Middle East crossroads to grab a bigger share of transit business.
The exact extent to Syria's economy is being hurt by the unrest and resulting international sanctions is not clear; official data is scarce. But many analysts expect gross domestic product to decline this year, perhaps by several percent or more. At the start of this year, the International Monetary Fund predicted it would grow 3 percent.
Shippers and businessmen say exports have dropped as foreign customers have cut orders, while Syrian importers have delayed orders because of the uncertainty. Meanwhile, companies which used Syria as a conduit to conduct trade with other countries in the region are seeking different routes. Syria's principal port of Latakia, where the military deployed three months ago, has been hit hard along with Tartous.
"Even the Mediterranean cruise liners that came to Latakia and Tartous, and had hundreds of Italian and Spanish tourists, have not come this year," said the international shipper, who did not want to be named because of the sensitivity of the issue.
Shipping sources say traffic in general cargoes, dry and liquid bulk cargoes, and containers at Latakia and Tartous has been slipping since the uprising broke out in March. They estimate volumes shrank an average 35 to 40 percent from a year earlier in the first eight months of 2011.
"Importers and exporters are being very cautious, and that has led to imports of raw materials falling sharply as production slows down in many industries due to the troubles," a Syrian transportation official, who requested anonymity, told Reuters from Damascus.
Shipping agents and industry experts said container volumes, the vast majority of which are handled by Latakia, dropped in June alone by 36 percent from a year earlier to 33,527 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU).
Official Latakia port figures for the April-June period show a drop of 16 percent from a year earlier, but industry sources said this data was misleading because it included many containers with empty space.
In Tartous, which handles most of Syria's bulk cargoes, or nearly 9 million tons of annual traffic in normal times, shipping sources said some European operators were avoiding the port after the European Union announced sanctions on Syrian oil exports at the start of September.
They said they were also seeing less business from Iraqi and other Arab traders who were deterred by the increasing checkpoints and roadblocks in many parts of Syria.
"We had 25 to 30 vessels daily arriving. This has dropped to between 10 to five daily," said a major shipping agent based in Tartous, referring to vessels between 8,000 and 35,000 tons.
So far, major regular shipping lines such as Danish firm Maersk, French-based CMA CGM, Geneva-based MSC, and Germany's Hamburg Sud have largely maintained normal vessel calls to Syrian ports despite lower cargo volumes, industry sources said.
Shipping agents say the companies are reluctant to pull out of a transit market that has served the whole region and still has great long-term potential because of its location.
"No major regular shipping lines are quitting at the moment. Once they withdraw from any service, it's very hard to restore," said Talal Halawani, a shipper whose Amman-based Liberty Shipping is an agent of a leading Italian line.
"Although they are suffering because cargo is not like before, they are still operating normally despite all the constraints. It's a wait-and-see attitude."
But other regional companies with no regular services have less ability to sustain losses, and they have omitted port calls or cancelled visits to Syrian ports altogether.
"Liners that made container ship calls four times a month are now calling three times a month. Some regional liners, including one or two Turkish liners, have even dropped port calls altogether," said a second Syrian transportation official.
Some shippers are seeking to offset the drop in their Syrian trade by offering more competitive rates for container slots in nearby Beirut, Mersin and Alexandria ports, which are in the same Europe-Mediterranean service.
The turmoil has prompted many lines to suspend plans, some drawn up only a few months ago, to add more container slots or introduce bigger vessels on Syrian port calls in anticipation of demand related to the reconstruction of Iraq.
Over the past five years, Syrian ports were able to boost their transit trade with Iraq, Jordan and the Arabian peninsula as Syria's red tape and state controls, a legacy of five decades of Soviet-style economic management, were reduced.
Latakia and Tartous were also revitalized by the award of contracts to manage their container terminals to foreign investors in partnership with local investors linked to the Assad family.
The foreign investors – CMA CGM in Latakia, and the Philippines' International Container Terminal Services in Tartous – upgraded the facilities and helped to nearly double the ports' container traffic last year to 620,000 TEU from around 365,000 TEU in 2004.
Nearly 40 percent of Latakia's total incoming cargo volume has been Iraq-bound, shippers and Syrian transportation officials say, while for Tartous the figure has been as high as 70 percent.
Syrian ports' flexibility and lower costs gave them a competitive advantage in Iraq-related business against Turkish and Lebanese ports and and Jordan's Aqaba. Lower land transport costs were also a plus, along with the ability to bypass Suez Canal fees paid by importers using Jordanian and Saudi ports on the Red Sea.
Now, Iraqi, Jordanian and Saudi Arabian importers, who have used Syrian ports in recent years for bulk cargoes of wood, marble, steel and grains from the Black Sea area and North and Central Europe, are looking for alternatives.
"We are getting increasing inquiries from local and Iraqi traders who want to bring their goods to Jordan by sea from Turkey or other markets. This business traditionally would go to Syrian ports. Even goods that would normally go by land via Syria are now being shipped," said Captain Wahid Abu Ajamieh, general manager of CMA CGM Jordan.
"This is an indication that something odd is happening."
Syrian naphtha tender attracts no bids: traders
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/Business/Middle-East/2011/Sep-14/148752-syrian-naphtha-tender-attracts-no-bids-traders.ashx
September 14, 2011 04:00 PM
Reuters
LONDON: A Syrian tender to sell naphtha has attracted no bids due to EU and U.S. sanctions, traders said on Wednesday, refuting suggestions by some market players that small trading houses might chance a deal.
State-run oil marketer Sytrol issues tenders to sell naphtha and crude oil every month and European oil companies and traders typically win these.
This month Sytrol issued a tender to sell 50,000 tonnes of naphtha for loading on Sept 20 to Sept. 22 from Banias but there was no participants, traders said.
"They received no bids for the tender," one trader said. "No one wants it, not Europe nor Asia. They are starting to feel the sanctions."
Another trader said: "Syria is too politically sensitive for most players. Plus we are finding ship owners unwilling to go there too."
Late last week, Syria also issued a separate tender to sell crude oil for October loading. Several crude oil traders in Europe said they would not participate.
The European Union banned imports of Syria's oil on Saturday to put economic pressure on President Bashar al-Assad, while allowing fuel sales to Syria to continue.
Syrian oil under existing contracts can be still imported to the EU until Nov. 15.
Arab League states on Tuesday called for "immediate change" in Syria and an end to the violence after months of a government crackdown on pro-democracy protesters opposed to al-Assad's rule.
Sep 14 Regional
سورية ولبنان تتحفظان على بيان مجلس الوزراء العرب...السفير يوسف أحمد: البيان عمل عدائي وغير بناء في التعامل مع الأزمة في سورية
Syria and Lebanon placed a reservation on the statement of the Council of Arab Ministers ... Ambassador Youssef Ahmad: statement aggressive action and not constructive in dealing with the crisis in Syria
http://www.alwatan.sy/dindex.php?idn=108485
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أعلنت كل من سورية ولبنان تحفظهما على البيان الذي صدر عن المجلس بخصوص الوضع في سورية. حيث أعلن السفير يوسف أحمد رفض سورية للبيان جملة وتفصيلاً، واعتبره عملاً عدائياً وغير بناء في التعامل مع الأزمة في سورية ومحاولة لإفشال مهمة الأمين العام لجامعة الدول العربية نبيل العربي، وهي الحقيقة التي انعكست من خلال مواقف ممثلي بعض الدول العربية ومن مناخات التفاوض التي سادت اجتماع المجلس والتي تناقضت بشكل فاضح مع المضامين الإيجابية لتقرير الأمين العام لجامعة الدول العربية عن زيارته الأخيرة إلى سورية ولقائه بالسيد الرئيس بشار الأسد.
Announced that both Syria and Lebanon, their reservations on the statement issued by the council on the situation in Syria. Where Ambassador Youssef Ahmed Syria's rejection of the statement altogether, and considered it a hostile act, not constructive in dealing with the crisis in Syria and an attempt to thwart the mission of the Secretary General of the League of Arab States Nabil el-Arabi, a fact reflected by the positions of representatives of some Arab countries and climates negotiations that dominated the meeting Council, which contrasted with grossly positive implications for the report of the Secretary General of the League of Arab States on his recent visit to Syria and meeting with President al-Assad.
Ambassador Ahmad: Some Arab Sides Are Hindering Solving Crisis in Syria
السفير أحمد: أطراف عربية تتخذ مواقف سلبية لا تساعد بحل الأزمة في سورية وتنفذ إملاءات قوى دولية تقود المؤامرة على سورية
http://www.sana.sy/eng/337/2011/09/14/369266.htm
http://www.sana.sy/ara/3/2011/09/14/369252.htm
إعدام مواطن سوري في السعودية
Execution of a Syrian citizen in Saudi Arabia
http://www.aksalser.com/index.php?page=view_articles&id=c29bab9711360fd67bc6e944697ec54a&ar=512138695
أعدمت السعودية مواطناً بعد اتهامه بتهريب حبوب " كبتاغون" مخدرة، اليوم الأربعاء، في منطقة "الجوف" السعودية.
يذكر أن السعودية نفذت عدد كبير من احكام الاعدام بحق سورييين بعد حرب تموز ( بين حزب الله واسرائيل) إثر تأزم العلاقات السورية السعودية.
Saudi Arabia executed a citizen after being accused of smuggling grain "Keptagon" narcotic, on Wednesday, in the "Hollow" Saudi Arabia.
It is worth noting that Saudi Arabia has implemented a large number of death sentences against Syrian members after the July war (between Hezbollah and Israel) following the worsening relations between Syria and Saudi Arabia.
Turkish PM says Syrian people don't believe in Assad
http://www.todayszaman.com/news-256726-turkish-pm-says-syrian-people-dont-believe-in-assad.html
13 September 2011, Tuesday
"As civilian deaths increase in Syria we see that reforms have not materialised and they did not speak honestly. It is not possible to believe this. And the Syrian people do not believe in Assad, nor do I. We also do not believe him,"
"Nobody can be a friend with or trust an administration that fires bullets at its people and attacks its cities with tanks," Erdoğan said.
"A leader who kills his own people has lost his legitimacy."
'Zero-problems policy' needs fine-tuning
http://www.todayszaman.com/columnistDetail_getNewsById.action?newsId=256720
13 September 2011, Tuesday
YAVUZ BAYDAR, Columnists
محلل سياسي: هدف جولة اردوغان في الدول العربية مواجهة النفوذ الايراني في المنطقة واضعاف النظام السوري
Political analyst: The objective of Erdogan's tour of Arab countries in the face of Iranian influence in the region and weakening the Syrian regime
http://arabic.rt.com/news_all_news/news/566730
Report: Syria Freezes Ties with Jumblat as Hizbullah Accuses him of Shattering Cabinet
http://www.naharnet.com/stories/en/14943-report-syria-freezes-ties-with-jumblat-as-hizbullah-accuses-him-of-shattering-cabinet
by Naharnet Newsdesk
14 September 2011, 09:30
A high-ranking Syrian official has also informed a former PSP official, who continues to have ties with Jumblat, that he should cut his relations with the Druze leader.
Syria and Lebanon placed a reservation on the statement of the Council of Arab Ministers ... Ambassador Youssef Ahmad: statement aggressive action and not constructive in dealing with the crisis in Syria
http://www.alwatan.sy/dindex.php?idn=108485
http://backupurl.com/3wmbz1
أعلنت كل من سورية ولبنان تحفظهما على البيان الذي صدر عن المجلس بخصوص الوضع في سورية. حيث أعلن السفير يوسف أحمد رفض سورية للبيان جملة وتفصيلاً، واعتبره عملاً عدائياً وغير بناء في التعامل مع الأزمة في سورية ومحاولة لإفشال مهمة الأمين العام لجامعة الدول العربية نبيل العربي، وهي الحقيقة التي انعكست من خلال مواقف ممثلي بعض الدول العربية ومن مناخات التفاوض التي سادت اجتماع المجلس والتي تناقضت بشكل فاضح مع المضامين الإيجابية لتقرير الأمين العام لجامعة الدول العربية عن زيارته الأخيرة إلى سورية ولقائه بالسيد الرئيس بشار الأسد.
Announced that both Syria and Lebanon, their reservations on the statement issued by the council on the situation in Syria. Where Ambassador Youssef Ahmed Syria's rejection of the statement altogether, and considered it a hostile act, not constructive in dealing with the crisis in Syria and an attempt to thwart the mission of the Secretary General of the League of Arab States Nabil el-Arabi, a fact reflected by the positions of representatives of some Arab countries and climates negotiations that dominated the meeting Council, which contrasted with grossly positive implications for the report of the Secretary General of the League of Arab States on his recent visit to Syria and meeting with President al-Assad.
Ambassador Ahmad: Some Arab Sides Are Hindering Solving Crisis in Syria
السفير أحمد: أطراف عربية تتخذ مواقف سلبية لا تساعد بحل الأزمة في سورية وتنفذ إملاءات قوى دولية تقود المؤامرة على سورية
http://www.sana.sy/eng/337/2011/09/14/369266.htm
http://www.sana.sy/ara/3/2011/09/14/369252.htm
إعدام مواطن سوري في السعودية
Execution of a Syrian citizen in Saudi Arabia
http://www.aksalser.com/index.php?page=view_articles&id=c29bab9711360fd67bc6e944697ec54a&ar=512138695
أعدمت السعودية مواطناً بعد اتهامه بتهريب حبوب " كبتاغون" مخدرة، اليوم الأربعاء، في منطقة "الجوف" السعودية.
يذكر أن السعودية نفذت عدد كبير من احكام الاعدام بحق سورييين بعد حرب تموز ( بين حزب الله واسرائيل) إثر تأزم العلاقات السورية السعودية.
Saudi Arabia executed a citizen after being accused of smuggling grain "Keptagon" narcotic, on Wednesday, in the "Hollow" Saudi Arabia.
It is worth noting that Saudi Arabia has implemented a large number of death sentences against Syrian members after the July war (between Hezbollah and Israel) following the worsening relations between Syria and Saudi Arabia.
Turkish PM says Syrian people don't believe in Assad
http://www.todayszaman.com/news-256726-turkish-pm-says-syrian-people-dont-believe-in-assad.html
13 September 2011, Tuesday
"As civilian deaths increase in Syria we see that reforms have not materialised and they did not speak honestly. It is not possible to believe this. And the Syrian people do not believe in Assad, nor do I. We also do not believe him,"
"Nobody can be a friend with or trust an administration that fires bullets at its people and attacks its cities with tanks," Erdoğan said.
"A leader who kills his own people has lost his legitimacy."
'Zero-problems policy' needs fine-tuning
http://www.todayszaman.com/columnistDetail_getNewsById.action?newsId=256720
13 September 2011, Tuesday
YAVUZ BAYDAR, Columnists
محلل سياسي: هدف جولة اردوغان في الدول العربية مواجهة النفوذ الايراني في المنطقة واضعاف النظام السوري
Political analyst: The objective of Erdogan's tour of Arab countries in the face of Iranian influence in the region and weakening the Syrian regime
http://arabic.rt.com/news_all_news/news/566730
Report: Syria Freezes Ties with Jumblat as Hizbullah Accuses him of Shattering Cabinet
http://www.naharnet.com/stories/en/14943-report-syria-freezes-ties-with-jumblat-as-hizbullah-accuses-him-of-shattering-cabinet
by Naharnet Newsdesk
14 September 2011, 09:30
A high-ranking Syrian official has also informed a former PSP official, who continues to have ties with Jumblat, that he should cut his relations with the Druze leader.
Sep 14 International
شعبان: من المؤسف أن دولاً تبني مواقفها وقراراتها على امور مثيرة للسخرية
Long interview with Dr Shaaban, Presidential advisor of Syria at the end of her visit to Moscow: It is regrettable that countries adopt their positions and decisions on things ridiculous
http://arabic.rt.com/prg/telecast/656680
Ambassadors as human shields in Syrian revolt
The appearance of British and other western envoys at an activist's funeral signals an upping of stakes in the stand-off with Damascus
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/julian-borger-global-security-blog/2011/sep/14/syria-foreignpolicy
The American and French ambassadors to Damascus now have some company as occasional human shields for the Syrian protest movement. At the funeral on Sunday of Giyath Matar, a human rights activist tortured and killed in custody, Robert Ford and Eric Chevallier were joined by other western envoys, including the UK's Simon Hollis, and representatives from Germany, Canada, Japan, Netherlands and the EU.
The measure of protection provided by the coordinated diplomatic presence is limited. The Washington Post's Liz Sly tweeted that the funeral tent at the Matar wake was trashed by security forces an hour later. And the risk to the diplomats is real. It is an uncomfortable and somewhat bizarre position to be in being the diplomatic representative of a country openly calling for the toppling of the host regime. Ford has noted on his Facebook page that he has received death threats, but British diplomats say there will be more such public appearances at opposition events.
Pietton to Visit al-Rahi Amid French Disappointment with his Remarks
http://www.naharnet.com/stories/en/14949-pietton-to-visit-al-rahi-amid-french-disappointment-with-his-remarks
by Naharnet Newsdesk
14 September 2011, 10:37
French ambassador Denis Pietton unveiled on Wednesday that Paris was disappointed with the statements made by Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi following talks with top French officials.
In remarks to AlKalima Online website, Pietton said that the officials were "surprised and disappointed" with the remarks of al-Rahi who linked the fate of Hizbullah's arms to the liberation of the remaining Israeli-occupied Lebanese territories.
The patriarch also expressed fear on the fate of Christians in Syria if the Muslim Brotherhood rose to power. He called for giving Syrian President Bashar Assad the chance to introduce reform.
Al-Rahi's "statement did not reflect the stance of French authorities regardless of the patriarch's personal point of view and his way of thinking," Pietton said.
He also unveiled that he would visit the patriarch soon upon the request of French authorities to inquire him about his statements.
The dispute that erupted among Lebanese parties over his remarks, led to "unsatisfactory expectations among the Lebanese, particularly that they see the patriarchate as a moral authority in addition to being a political and religious" authority, the ambassador added.
Pietton stressed to the website that following talks with Premier Najib Miqati he didn't describe al-Rahi's visit to Paris as "successful." He said the trip was "important."
منع الطلاب السوريين من التقدم إلى امتحان GMAT و 1500 جامعة عالمية
Preventing Syrian students progress to the GMAT exam and 1500 global university
http://www.aksalser.com/?page=view_articles&id=fa96a9db67ba74f7d9b010f7d0625d17&ar=814174103
منع السوريين الذين لا يملكون إقامة في غير الأراضي السورية من التقدم إلى امتحان GMAT الذي يخوضه المتقدمون لشهادة الماجيستير في إدارة الأعمال بالجامعات التي تتبع النظام الأميركي .
Syrians who don't have a residence other than in the Syrian territory are prohibited to progress to the GMAT exam applicants for the Master's degree in business administration universities that follow the American system.
Related info:
http://www.mba.com/the-gmat/gmat-information-bulletin/2011-gmat-information-bulletin-updates.aspx
"*If you are a citizen of Iran living in Iran, or a citizen of Syria living in Syria, you must schedule your appointment by phone through GMAT Customer Service."
Syria, Venezuela to set joint fish-processing plant
http://www.avn.info.ve/node/77242
Caracas, 14 Sep. AVN .- A joint venture to process and export fish will be set in state Barinas, western Venezuela, by means of an accord inked between the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and Syrian Arab Republic.
General secretary of Barinas state government, Carlos Hernandez, said the information during a conference named Syria, decent resistance in the Middle East, which took place at a seat of the state-run oil company PDVSA, in Barinas state.
The goal is to process and pack different kind of fishes in the plant; then, these shall be exchanged by goods and services provided by the Syrian people, said Hernandez.
Meanwhile, Syrian ambassador to Venezuela, Ghassan Sulaiman Abbas, expressed that within the mutual cooperation it is as well envisaged to construct a binational joint venture to refine olive oil in the Syrian province of Idlib.
The olive will be sown and harvested in Syria, while its packing and distribution will take place in Venezuela.
Besides, the accord envisages commercial operations to export foods, especially fruits produced in Venezuela, such as mango and banana.
Also, the two nations are expected to sow cotton in Venezuelan territory.
"This cooperation breaks with all neoliberal schemes by means of complementarity between two sister nations," Sulaiman said.
Long interview with Dr Shaaban, Presidential advisor of Syria at the end of her visit to Moscow: It is regrettable that countries adopt their positions and decisions on things ridiculous
http://arabic.rt.com/prg/telecast/656680
Ambassadors as human shields in Syrian revolt
The appearance of British and other western envoys at an activist's funeral signals an upping of stakes in the stand-off with Damascus
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/julian-borger-global-security-blog/2011/sep/14/syria-foreignpolicy
The American and French ambassadors to Damascus now have some company as occasional human shields for the Syrian protest movement. At the funeral on Sunday of Giyath Matar, a human rights activist tortured and killed in custody, Robert Ford and Eric Chevallier were joined by other western envoys, including the UK's Simon Hollis, and representatives from Germany, Canada, Japan, Netherlands and the EU.
The measure of protection provided by the coordinated diplomatic presence is limited. The Washington Post's Liz Sly tweeted that the funeral tent at the Matar wake was trashed by security forces an hour later. And the risk to the diplomats is real. It is an uncomfortable and somewhat bizarre position to be in being the diplomatic representative of a country openly calling for the toppling of the host regime. Ford has noted on his Facebook page that he has received death threats, but British diplomats say there will be more such public appearances at opposition events.
Pietton to Visit al-Rahi Amid French Disappointment with his Remarks
http://www.naharnet.com/stories/en/14949-pietton-to-visit-al-rahi-amid-french-disappointment-with-his-remarks
by Naharnet Newsdesk
14 September 2011, 10:37
French ambassador Denis Pietton unveiled on Wednesday that Paris was disappointed with the statements made by Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi following talks with top French officials.
In remarks to AlKalima Online website, Pietton said that the officials were "surprised and disappointed" with the remarks of al-Rahi who linked the fate of Hizbullah's arms to the liberation of the remaining Israeli-occupied Lebanese territories.
The patriarch also expressed fear on the fate of Christians in Syria if the Muslim Brotherhood rose to power. He called for giving Syrian President Bashar Assad the chance to introduce reform.
Al-Rahi's "statement did not reflect the stance of French authorities regardless of the patriarch's personal point of view and his way of thinking," Pietton said.
He also unveiled that he would visit the patriarch soon upon the request of French authorities to inquire him about his statements.
The dispute that erupted among Lebanese parties over his remarks, led to "unsatisfactory expectations among the Lebanese, particularly that they see the patriarchate as a moral authority in addition to being a political and religious" authority, the ambassador added.
Pietton stressed to the website that following talks with Premier Najib Miqati he didn't describe al-Rahi's visit to Paris as "successful." He said the trip was "important."
منع الطلاب السوريين من التقدم إلى امتحان GMAT و 1500 جامعة عالمية
Preventing Syrian students progress to the GMAT exam and 1500 global university
http://www.aksalser.com/?page=view_articles&id=fa96a9db67ba74f7d9b010f7d0625d17&ar=814174103
منع السوريين الذين لا يملكون إقامة في غير الأراضي السورية من التقدم إلى امتحان GMAT الذي يخوضه المتقدمون لشهادة الماجيستير في إدارة الأعمال بالجامعات التي تتبع النظام الأميركي .
Syrians who don't have a residence other than in the Syrian territory are prohibited to progress to the GMAT exam applicants for the Master's degree in business administration universities that follow the American system.
Related info:
http://www.mba.com/the-gmat/gmat-information-bulletin/2011-gmat-information-bulletin-updates.aspx
"*If you are a citizen of Iran living in Iran, or a citizen of Syria living in Syria, you must schedule your appointment by phone through GMAT Customer Service."
Syria, Venezuela to set joint fish-processing plant
http://www.avn.info.ve/node/77242
Caracas, 14 Sep. AVN .- A joint venture to process and export fish will be set in state Barinas, western Venezuela, by means of an accord inked between the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and Syrian Arab Republic.
General secretary of Barinas state government, Carlos Hernandez, said the information during a conference named Syria, decent resistance in the Middle East, which took place at a seat of the state-run oil company PDVSA, in Barinas state.
The goal is to process and pack different kind of fishes in the plant; then, these shall be exchanged by goods and services provided by the Syrian people, said Hernandez.
Meanwhile, Syrian ambassador to Venezuela, Ghassan Sulaiman Abbas, expressed that within the mutual cooperation it is as well envisaged to construct a binational joint venture to refine olive oil in the Syrian province of Idlib.
The olive will be sown and harvested in Syria, while its packing and distribution will take place in Venezuela.
Besides, the accord envisages commercial operations to export foods, especially fruits produced in Venezuela, such as mango and banana.
Also, the two nations are expected to sow cotton in Venezuelan territory.
"This cooperation breaks with all neoliberal schemes by means of complementarity between two sister nations," Sulaiman said.
Sep 14 Central government
وزير الإعلام في حديث خاص بـ«الوطن»: التوازن مطلوب في وسائل الإعلام السورية مستقبلاً وينبغي إدخال عنصر التخصص
Information Minister in an exclusive interview with «home»: the balance required in the Syrian media in the future should introduce an element of specialization
http://www.alwatan.sy/dindex.php?idn=108484
http://backupurl.com/rs8x63
أقرت الحكومة في جلستها أمس خطة عمل وزارة الاقتصاد والتجارة وإستراتيجيتها وتوجهاتها الأساسية في المرحلة المقبلة وإحالة المقترحات المتعلقة بتوجهات عملية الإصلاح الواردة في مذكرتها إلى لجنة الإصلاح الاقتصادي لاستكمال دراستها وتطويرها بالتنسيق مع الوزارات والجهات المعنية ومن ثم عرضها على المجلس في جلسة قادمة.
Government declares: our stock more than good food and we import more than we need and should be adjusted five-year plan
http://www.alwatan.sy/dindex.php?idn=108457
http://backupurl.com/5fxr7q
They discussed about modifying 5-year plan, cutting subsidies, especially fuel oil, value-added tax, etc.
بعد استبدال عدادات الكهرباء في حي الجولان...فواتير الدورة السادسة 90-130 ألف ليرة!!
After replacing electricity meters in the Jaulan (Golan) neighborhood bills ... the sixth session of 90-130 thousand pounds!!
http://www.alwatan.sy/dindex.php?idn=108447
http://backupurl.com/2phdh6
«ادفع ثم اعترض»
«pay then object»
تضمنت قطع التيار عن من لا يسدد قيمة فاتورته .. الكهرباء تتخذ إجراءات مشددة للحد من ظاهرة الاعتداء على الشبكة الكهربائية
Included a cut off for those who do not pay the bill .. Power to take strict measures to curb the attacks on the electrical grid
http://www.aksalser.com/?page=view_news&id=34760ad8e1e481b82165b85d7ab2c175&ar=156227918
تضمنت الإجراءات المشددة التي اتخذتها وزارة الكهرباء لقمع ظاهرة الاعتداء على الشبكة الكهربائية اتخاذ جميع التدابير لتحصيل الإصدارات والديون المالية على جهات القطاع العام والخاص , وتطبيق أحكام نظام الاستثمار بما فيها قطع التيار الكهربائي عن المشترك مهما كان شأنه , في حال التمنع عن تسديد قيمة الفواتير , والعمل على تحويل السيولة المالية إلى المؤسسة العامة.
Included tough measures taken by the Ministry of Electricity to suppress the phenomenon of the attack on the electric grid to take all measures for the collection of versions, debt, financial sector entities and public sectors, and the application of the provisions of the investment system, including cutting off electricity to the joint no matter what would, in case of reluctance to pay the bills, and work to transform the financial liquidity to the Corporation.
Cabinet meeting: Situation of Construction Companies Work Discussed
سفر يرأس اجتماعا للجنة البناء والتشييد .. بحث واقع عمل شركات الإنشاءات العامة وآلية تأمين جبهات عمل جديدة لها ومعالجة صعوباتها
http://www.sana.sy/eng/24/2011/09/14/369348.htm
http://www.sana.sy/ara/2/2011/09/14/369316.htm
بتكلفة 14 مليار ليرة وطول 98 كم.. طريق اللاذقية ـ أريحا في الخدمة نهاية العام
14 billion lira and the length of 98 km .. Lattakia by Ariha in the service end of the year
http://www.sana.sy/ara/134/2011/09/14/369356.htm
(explantion about a comprehensive plan for road networks in Syria)
الشعار : سورية تمتلك من المواد الغذائية ما يفوق المخزون الاستراتيجي
Minister of Economy: Syria has food more than the strategic reserve
http://www.aksalser.com/index.php?page=view_news&id=67d51d6e0da04b6cba994cc8025fbb85&ar=970084035
الاقتصاد تمنع تصدير الغذاء المستورد
Ministry of Economy, prevent the export of imported food
http://www.aksalser.com/index.php?page=view_news&id=dd2b8ebc2ed0778e2e0ec15bb0513ffc&ar=644995735
الاربعاء - 14 أيلول - 2011 - 8:50:22
Wednesday - September 14 - 2011 - 8:50:22
مناقصة سورية لشراء 100 ألف طن من القمح
Syria tender to buy 100 tons of soft wheat
http://www.aksalser.com/index.php?page=view_news&id=1302fa093ea3eda35b47c8db74cef69d&ar=585226693
Wednesday - September 14 - 2011 - 9:05:05
Syria's foreign reserves enough for 20 months of imports: finance minister
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2011-09/14/c_131138740.htm
Information Minister in an exclusive interview with «home»: the balance required in the Syrian media in the future should introduce an element of specialization
http://www.alwatan.sy/dindex.php?idn=108484
http://backupurl.com/rs8x63
أقرت الحكومة في جلستها أمس خطة عمل وزارة الاقتصاد والتجارة وإستراتيجيتها وتوجهاتها الأساسية في المرحلة المقبلة وإحالة المقترحات المتعلقة بتوجهات عملية الإصلاح الواردة في مذكرتها إلى لجنة الإصلاح الاقتصادي لاستكمال دراستها وتطويرها بالتنسيق مع الوزارات والجهات المعنية ومن ثم عرضها على المجلس في جلسة قادمة.
Government declares: our stock more than good food and we import more than we need and should be adjusted five-year plan
http://www.alwatan.sy/dindex.php?idn=108457
http://backupurl.com/5fxr7q
They discussed about modifying 5-year plan, cutting subsidies, especially fuel oil, value-added tax, etc.
بعد استبدال عدادات الكهرباء في حي الجولان...فواتير الدورة السادسة 90-130 ألف ليرة!!
After replacing electricity meters in the Jaulan (Golan) neighborhood bills ... the sixth session of 90-130 thousand pounds!!
http://www.alwatan.sy/dindex.php?idn=108447
http://backupurl.com/2phdh6
«ادفع ثم اعترض»
«pay then object»
تضمنت قطع التيار عن من لا يسدد قيمة فاتورته .. الكهرباء تتخذ إجراءات مشددة للحد من ظاهرة الاعتداء على الشبكة الكهربائية
Included a cut off for those who do not pay the bill .. Power to take strict measures to curb the attacks on the electrical grid
http://www.aksalser.com/?page=view_news&id=34760ad8e1e481b82165b85d7ab2c175&ar=156227918
تضمنت الإجراءات المشددة التي اتخذتها وزارة الكهرباء لقمع ظاهرة الاعتداء على الشبكة الكهربائية اتخاذ جميع التدابير لتحصيل الإصدارات والديون المالية على جهات القطاع العام والخاص , وتطبيق أحكام نظام الاستثمار بما فيها قطع التيار الكهربائي عن المشترك مهما كان شأنه , في حال التمنع عن تسديد قيمة الفواتير , والعمل على تحويل السيولة المالية إلى المؤسسة العامة.
Included tough measures taken by the Ministry of Electricity to suppress the phenomenon of the attack on the electric grid to take all measures for the collection of versions, debt, financial sector entities and public sectors, and the application of the provisions of the investment system, including cutting off electricity to the joint no matter what would, in case of reluctance to pay the bills, and work to transform the financial liquidity to the Corporation.
Cabinet meeting: Situation of Construction Companies Work Discussed
سفر يرأس اجتماعا للجنة البناء والتشييد .. بحث واقع عمل شركات الإنشاءات العامة وآلية تأمين جبهات عمل جديدة لها ومعالجة صعوباتها
http://www.sana.sy/eng/24/2011/09/14/369348.htm
http://www.sana.sy/ara/2/2011/09/14/369316.htm
بتكلفة 14 مليار ليرة وطول 98 كم.. طريق اللاذقية ـ أريحا في الخدمة نهاية العام
14 billion lira and the length of 98 km .. Lattakia by Ariha in the service end of the year
http://www.sana.sy/ara/134/2011/09/14/369356.htm
(explantion about a comprehensive plan for road networks in Syria)
الشعار : سورية تمتلك من المواد الغذائية ما يفوق المخزون الاستراتيجي
Minister of Economy: Syria has food more than the strategic reserve
http://www.aksalser.com/index.php?page=view_news&id=67d51d6e0da04b6cba994cc8025fbb85&ar=970084035
الاقتصاد تمنع تصدير الغذاء المستورد
Ministry of Economy, prevent the export of imported food
http://www.aksalser.com/index.php?page=view_news&id=dd2b8ebc2ed0778e2e0ec15bb0513ffc&ar=644995735
الاربعاء - 14 أيلول - 2011 - 8:50:22
Wednesday - September 14 - 2011 - 8:50:22
مناقصة سورية لشراء 100 ألف طن من القمح
Syria tender to buy 100 tons of soft wheat
http://www.aksalser.com/index.php?page=view_news&id=1302fa093ea3eda35b47c8db74cef69d&ar=585226693
Wednesday - September 14 - 2011 - 9:05:05
Syria's foreign reserves enough for 20 months of imports: finance minister
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2011-09/14/c_131138740.htm
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