A new Syrian government led by Prime Minister Mohammad Mustafa Miro was formed on Thursday following a decree issued by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
The leading French rail and urban transport engineering and consulting company is projecting to achieve a study on a Damascus-Aleppo fast track link that would put the two cities within two hours of each other.
According to a Syrian official Syria and Iraq are concerned about Turkey's commitment to a 1987 agreement on sharing the waters of the Euphrates and Tigris, said Teshreen.
A judge trying a lawmaker accused of violating the constitution and defaming the government agreed to a request by defence lawyers Tuesday to summon Interior Minister Mohammed Harba to testify in court, said Al Hayat.
Lawyers for Syrian opposition deputy Riad Seif, accused of trying to change the constitution illegally, called Wednesday for Syrian parliament speaker Abdel Kader Kaddura to be summoned to testify, reported L'Orient-le-Jour.
Syria and Iraq have called on Turkey to return to negotiations over the allocation of water from the Euphrates and Tigris rivers - talks broken off nine years ago, reported Zawya.
Marc Pierini, head of the European Union delegation in Syria, blamed the lack of substantive economic reforms in Syria for delays in negotiating an association agreement with the EU, reported Al Quds.
The National progressive front, the highest executive body in the country, has requested each member party to put forward a list of its executives to fill the ministerial post that each of them is entitled to in the government, reported Al Hayat.
According to diplomatic sources, president Bashar al-Assad is expected to appoint a new cabinet in the coming few weeks, his first government reshuffle since he succeeded his late father Hafez al-Assad, said CNN.
Political sources in Damascus said that President Bashar el Assad is expected to re-appoint Mustapha Miro as head of the incoming government, reported Al Hayat.
Irrigation ministers from Syria and Jordan discussed plans to build the al-Wehda Dam on the Yarmouk river on the Jordanian-Syrian border, reported Zawya.
The French Centre for External Trade (CFCE), in co-operation with the French Senate, organised on November 14th a seminar on trade and investment in the Levant (Jordan, Lebanon, Syria).
The events of September 11 have opened opportunities that must be grasped to forge better relations with countries such as Iran and Syria, said British Prime Minister Tony Blair.
The Syrian President Bashar al-Assad reshuffled eight government portfolios early October.
Syria and its close ally Lebanon are to end their boycott of a 27-nation European Union Mediterranean conference next week despite Israel's presence at a ministerial meeting in Brussels, reported Zawya.
