Syria
August 9, 2000
Iraqi Trade Minister Mohammed Mehdi Saleh said that Baghdad hoped to double its trade with Syria, its neighbor and longtime rival. Trade between Syria and Iraq is currently worth $450 million a year.
August 8, 2000
Syria and Lebanon moved closer towards creating a common market when President Bashar al-Assad ratified an agreement liberalising their trade in agricultural goods.
August 7, 2000
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad issued a decree ratifying the creation of a Syrian-Saudi body to help private enterprise. The Islamic Development Bank (IDB) will pay for Syria's shares in the the Is
August 6, 2000
Iraqi Trade Minister Mohammed Mehdi Saleh and Syrian Economy Minister Mohammad Imadi met to study ways to develop economic and commercial relations between the two countries.
Syria is planning to double its output of natural gas production by 2005, said the country’s oil minister, Mohammed Maher Jamal.
August 5, 2000
Iraqi Trade Minister has met with Syrian officials on ways to expand trade between the two countries as part of the UN "oil-for-food" program
August 4, 2000
Syria plans to add 200,000 new Internet connections by 2001, moving swiftly on a project by President Bashar Assad, who pledged to take the country in
August 3, 2000
Austrian parliament speaker Heinz Fischer holds talks with Syrian President Bashar Assad and other officials on regional questions and ties between Da
The United States and Britain have held up contracts worth more than $10 billion dollars concluded by Iraq under the UN "oil for food" deal.
(AFP) - Syria needs to invest $four billion in the production, transport and distribution of energy to cover its electricity needs over the next ten years.
August 2, 2000
A Syrian business delegation is in UAE on a visit to the country's free zones, holds trade talks with officials
(MEBG) – A letter of intent for the construction of a gas pipeline from the newly developed gas fields in the Palmyra area, near Aleppo, has been awar
August 1, 2000
Austrian Parliament Speaker Heinz Fischer is to meet Syri's new President Bashar Assad during a four-day visit to the country this week.
Syrian President Bashar Assad has assumed a further political post, becoming the chairman of the Progressive National Front (PNF) umbrella group of pa
July 29, 2000
By Nabil Al Mulhem Damascus A substantial raise in Syrian government military employees’ salaries will be announced Sunday, according to Assistant Mi