DIPLOMACY

MAGHREB CONFIDENTIAL n°917 - 11/03/2010 DIPLOMACY Mahmoud Al Hijazi Mahmoud Al Hijazi, Libya’s health minister, paid a discreet visit to France between Feb. (...)  [71 words]  [$1.8] MAGHREB CONFIDENTIAL n°917 - 11/03/2010 DIPLOMACY Saad Mustapha Mujber Saad Mustapha Mujber, one of Libya’s diplomats with the closest ties to Muammar Kadhafi, has just presented his credentials at Libyan envoy to Azerbaijan. (...)  [67 words]  [$1.8] MAGHREB CONFIDENTIAL n°916 - 04/03/2010 DIPLOMACY Afif Chelbi Afif Chelbi, the Tunisian energy minister will take part in a conference on access to civil nuclear energy in Paris on March 8-9. (...)  [83 words]  [$1.8] MAGHREB CONFIDENTIAL n°915 - 25/02/2010 DIPLOMACY Bouzid Omar Dourda Bouzid Omar Dourda travelled to Nigeria on a mission after the Feb, 18 coup d’etat, according to our sources. (...)  [83 words]  [$1.8] MAGHREB CONFIDENTIAL n°915 - 25/02/2010 DIPLOMACY Amadou Toumani Toure Amadou Toumani Toure has made his choice between his Algerian and French friends. (...)  [86 words]  [$1.8] MAGHREB CONFIDENTIAL n°914 - 18/02/2010 DIPLOMACY Bernard Kouchner Bernard Kouchner, French foreign minister, is still preparing for a visit to Algeria, but no date has been set. (...)  [85 words]  [$1.8] MAGHREB CONFIDENTIAL n°913 - 11/02/2010 DIPLOMACY Thierry Mariani Thierry Mariani, a UMP party legislator in southern France, is being tipped as a potential successor to Anne-Marie Idrac as state secretary for foreign trade. (...)  [86 words]  [$1.8] MAGHREB CONFIDENTIAL n°913 - 11/02/2010 DIPLOMACY Bernard Bigot Bernard Bigot, general manager of France’s Commissariat a l’Energie Atomique (CEA) is seeking to build up cooperation with Morocco. (...)  [63 words]  [$1.8] MAGHREB CONFIDENTIAL n°912 - 04/02/2010 DIPLOMACY Muammer Kadhafi Muammer Kadhafi is doing his best to see the Arab summit meeting in Syrte in March is a success. (...)  [91 words]  [$1.8] MAGHREB CONFIDENTIAL n°911 - 28/01/2010 DIPLOMACY Giovanni Bisignani Giovanni Bisignani, the director general of the International Air Transport Association (IATA), hit upon a solution to calm down Algeria which is furious about being placed on the list of “high risk countries” by the U. (...)  [81 words]  [$1.8] MAGHREB CONFIDENTIAL n°911 - 28/01/2010 DIPLOMACY Mohamed Ouzine Mohamed Ouzine, state secretary to Morocco’s foreign minister, Taieb Fassi Fihri, had peons of praise on Jan. (...)  [76 words]  [$1.8] MAGHREB CONFIDENTIAL n°910 - 21/01/2010 DIPLOMACY Thomas Boni Yayi Thomas Boni Yayi, the president of Benin, recently contracted Moroccans to see to his personal security. (...)  [66 words]  [$1.8] MAGHREB CONFIDENTIAL n°909 - 14/01/2010 DIPLOMACY Abdessalem Hetira Abdessalem Hetira, the Tunisian envoy to the European Union, is on tenterhooks. (...)  [81 words]  [$1.8] MAGHREB CONFIDENTIAL n°909 - 14/01/2010 DIPLOMACY Al Jazeera Al Jazeera has once again thrown down the gauntlet to the Tunisian authorities. (...)  [78 words]  [$1.8] MAGHREB CONFIDENTIAL n°908 - 07/01/2010 DIPLOMACY Abou Zeid Abou Zeid, leader of one of the groups which kidnapped French and Spanish hostages, could well be hunkered down in northern Mali. (...)  [82 words]  [$1.8] MAGHREB CONFIDENTIAL n°907 - 23/12/2009 DIPLOMACY Sadok Korbi Sadok Korbi, the Tunisian envoy to Cairo, is being tipped to succeeded the ? (...)  [64 words]  [$1.8] MAGHREB CONFIDENTIAL n°907 - 23/12/2009 DIPLOMACY Muammar Kadhafi Muammar Kadhafi may well have a role to play in the Philippines again some nine years after the release of the Jolo hostages thanks to payment of a ransom by the Development Foundation of his son, Saif Al Islam. (...)  [78 words]  [$1.8] MAGHREB CONFIDENTIAL n°906 - 17/12/2009 DIPLOMACY Abdelwaheb Abdallah Abdelwaheb Abdallah, the Tunisian foreign minister, and Abdelaziz Ben Dhia, an adviser to the president, made a point of appearing at the Japanese embassy to mark Japan’s national holiday and to meet the ambassador, Toshiyuki Taga, on Dec. (...)  [78 words]  [$1.8] MAGHREB CONFIDENTIAL n°905 - 10/12/2009 DIPLOMACY Alexander Egorov Alexander Egorov, Russia’s ambassador to Algeria, is again in the midst of negotiating major military contracts, according to our sources. (...)  [68 words]  [$1.8] MAGHREB CONFIDENTIAL n°905 - 10/12/2009 DIPLOMACY Jean-Marc Roubaud Jean-Marc Roubaud, a center-right legislator, questioned foreign minister Bernard Kouchner on the “decrepit state of European cemeteries in Algiers. (...)  [77 words]  [$1.8]   MAGHREB CONFIDENTIAL n°917 - 11/03/2010 DIPLOMACY Jose Manuel Barroso Jose Manuel Barroso, president of the European Commission, has disbursed EUR 120 million to finance the Galsi pipeline which will link Algeria and Italy. (...)  [77 words]  [$1.8] MAGHREB CONFIDENTIAL n°916 - 04/03/2010 DIPLOMACY Hugues Mingarelli Hugues Mingarelli, director general for external affairs at the European Commission, will kick off a sixth round of negotiations in mid-March concerning a framework agreement with Tripoli. (...)  [78 words]  [$1.8] MAGHREB CONFIDENTIAL n°916 - 04/03/2010 DIPLOMACY Hannibal Kadhafi Hannibal Kadhafi, son of Muammar Kadhafi, backtracked a little in the conflict between Libya and Switzerland by visiting Max Goldi who is imprisoned in Tripoli. (...)  [82 words]  [$1.8] MAGHREB CONFIDENTIAL n°915 - 25/02/2010 DIPLOMACY Manfredo Fanti ?Manfredo Fanti, the chief of the European Commission’s North Africa office, was due to lead a delegation to Tunis between Feb. (...)  [77 words]  [$1.8] MAGHREB CONFIDENTIAL n°914 - 18/02/2010 DIPLOMACY Yuri Luzhkov Yuri Luzhkov, the mayor of Mosow, wants to build up economic ties between Russian and Libya. (...)  [82 words]  [$1.8] MAGHREB CONFIDENTIAL n°914 - 18/02/2010 DIPLOMACY Farouk Al Charaa Farouk Al Charaa, Syria’s vice president, is laying on the visits in North Africa. (...)  [79 words]  [$1.8] MAGHREB CONFIDENTIAL n°913 - 11/02/2010 DIPLOMACY Mats Karlsson Mats Karlsson, the North Africa director of the World Bank, will lay out “country-partnership strategy” between Tunisia and the institution between 2010-2013 during a visit on Feb. (...)  [71 words]  [$1.8] MAGHREB CONFIDENTIAL n°912 - 04/02/2010 DIPLOMACY Stavros Dimas Stavros Dimas, the European environment commissioner, is being tipped for the post of secretary of the energy department of the Union for the Mediterranean (UPM in its French intials), in Barcelona, according to our sources. (...)  [96 words]  [$1.8] MAGHREB CONFIDENTIAL n°912 - 04/02/2010 DIPLOMACY Armand Jung Armand Jung, a legislator from eastern France and member of the France-Morocco friendship society, questioned foreign minister Bernard Kouchner over Kaddour Terhzaz. (...)  [83 words]  [$1.8] MAGHREB CONFIDENTIAL n°911 - 28/01/2010 DIPLOMACY Bernard Kouchner Bernard Kouchner, the French foreign minister, has trouble in travelling to Algiers. (...)  [76 words]  [$1.8] MAGHREB CONFIDENTIAL n°910 - 21/01/2010 DIPLOMACY Ali Chaouch Ali Chaouch, a 62-year-old whose post as social affairs minister went to Naceur Gharbi, is being tipped to take over from Sadok Korbi as Tunisia’s next ambassador to Egypt, according to our sources. (...)  [68 words]  [$1.8] MAGHREB CONFIDENTIAL n°910 - 21/01/2010 DIPLOMACY Ahmed Selmi Ahmed Selmi has just been named Tunisia's consul-general in Tripoli, where the ambassador, Mohamed Habib Brahem, is reportedly about to leave. (...)  [74 words]  [$1.8] MAGHREB CONFIDENTIAL n°909 - 14/01/2010 DIPLOMACY Bernard Kouchner Bernard Kouchner is expected in Algiers in February for talks with his counterpart, Algerian foreign minister Mourad Medelci. (...)  [81 words]  [$1.8] MAGHREB CONFIDENTIAL n°908 - 07/01/2010 DIPLOMACY Bertrand Delanoe Bertrand Delanoe, who became the bug bear of the Carthage Palace when he issued a statement calling for human rights to be respected in Tunisia, has sent a new “message” to Tunisia following the death of Habib Bourguiba Jr. (...)  [78 words]  [$1.8] MAGHREB CONFIDENTIAL n°908 - 07/01/2010 DIPLOMACY Baltasar Garzon Baltasar Garzon, the Spanish examining magistrate, wants to shortly conduct a mission to Tindouf in Algeria to hear Saharawi refugees concerning Moroccan repression in Western Sahara. (...)  [73 words]  [$1.8] MAGHREB CONFIDENTIAL n°907 - 23/12/2009 DIPLOMACY Yuri Zhadobin Yuri Zhadobin, the Belarus defense minister, and general Aboubakr Younes Jaber, the Libyan armed forces chief-of-staff, signed a cooperation protocol in the defence field on Dec. (...)  [63 words]  [$1.8] MAGHREB CONFIDENTIAL n°906 - 17/12/2009 DIPLOMACY Patrick Labaune Patrick Labaune, a center-right legislator from the Drome region in France, isn’t all that keen on signing a security cooperation pact with Tripoli, that was debated in Parliament on Dec. (...)  [72 words]  [$1.8] MAGHREB CONFIDENTIAL n°906 - 17/12/2009 DIPLOMACY Aminatou Haidar Aminatou Haidar, the Sahraouian militant who is observing a hunger strike at Lanzarote after being expelled from Laayoune, presents a serious problem to Spanish and Moroccan diplomats. (...)  [79 words]  [$1.8] MAGHREB CONFIDENTIAL n°905 - 10/12/2009 DIPLOMACY Antoine Mocilnikar Antoine Mocilnikar, who handles energy questions for the Union for the Mediterranean, received a delegation of public Libyan financiers in mid-November to present them with the Union’s Mediterranean Solar Plan. (...)  [71 words]  [$1.8] MAGHREB CONFIDENTIAL n°904 - 03/12/2009 DIPLOMACY Pietro Benassi Pietro Benassi, the new Italian ambassador to Tunis, took up his functions on Dec. (...)  [87 words]  [$1.8]