NICOSIA — Allies have agreed to help finance a major oil refinery in Syria. Iran, Malaysia and Venezuela have signed an agreement to build a $2.6 billion oil refinery in Homs. Officials said the refinery would have a capacity of 140,000 barrels per day.
SHARM EL SHEIKH — Syria plans to build a $3 billion oil refinery with a Kuwaiti partner, part of an effort to more than double the country’s capacity and process crude oil from neighbouring Iraq, Syrian Oil Minister Sufian Al Alao said.
ISTANBUL (AFP)--French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner warned Syria Friday that the international community could not "remain indifferent" to the current political vacuum in Lebanon.
DAMASCUS, Syria -- Syria on Wednesday strongly denied a claim by the leader of Lebanon's parliamentary majority that Damascus was plotting to assassinate him and the Western-backed prime minister.
French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner met with his Syrian counterpart Walid Muallem here Friday in the first high-level meeting between the two countries since the assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq Hariri in 2005.
Syria raised gasoline prices on Thursday by 20 percent, a state-run newspaper said, as the Arab state faced a decrease in oil production while oil rose to a record above $96 a barrel on world markets.
Between (6 9 October), a delegation from the Norwegian Church Aid (NCA) visited Syria aiming at learning about churches in Syria and the situation of Iraqi refugees.
The Unit on Life and Service/Human Resource Development (HRD) Program organized a training workshop in Damascus/Syria (25 27/October/2007) on ³Christian Education Towards its Comprehensiveness². The workshop targete d (46) Sunday Scholl teachers, religious educators, Priests and Pastors.
Three persons from the Church of Sweden: Rev Kjell Jonasson Associate Executive Secretary and Liaison Officer with MECC and WCC; Carolina Grelsson, Programme Officer for Humanitarian Assistance, Thomas; a press officer; visited Syria and Jordan between 22 26th of October.
Syria: Money laundering a priority at global meeting (AKI) - Measures to halt money laundering and terrorism finance will be top of the agenda when representatives from 30 countries and international organisations meet in Syria on Sunday.Officials from central banks and finance ministries as well as the US, Britain and France will meet representatives from the International Monetary ...