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Al-Ahram Weekly 1 - 7 April 1999 Issue No. 423 
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Al-Ahram Weekly 1 - 7 April 1999 Issue No. 423
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Egypt Region International Economy Opinion Culture Focus Interview Profile Features Travel Living Sports People Time Out Chronicles Cartoons Letters Aid to Kosovo
PRESIDENT Hosni Mubarak has decided to send emergency aid to Albanian Kosovo refugees fleeing their homes to neighbouring countries in the wake of atrocities being committed by Serbian forces. Foreign Minister Amr Moussa said on Tuesday that medical and food supplies will be distributed to the refugees through the Egyptian Red Crescent and the International Red Cross, adding that Prime Minister Kamal El-Ganzouri was supervising arrangements for the immediate dispatch of the supplies with relevant ministries and organisations.Election bid
A TOP adviser to Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat has resigned and said he would run for a seat in the Israeli parliament. Ahmed Tibi, who holds Israeli citizenship, joined the Balad Party, an Israeli-Arab party whose leader Azmi Bishara is the first Arab to run for the position of prime minister. Bishara said on Tuesday that he and Tibi were offering a new type of leadership to the Israeli-Arab minority, the politics of which are plagued with disunity. Arafat himself implored Israeli-Arab leaders to forget their differences and run on a joint ticket, in the Israeli elections scheduled for 17 May. During the meeting, the first ever for an Israeli government at city hall, Mayor Ehud Olmert asked for the release of 65 million dollars in funds promised to Jerusalem last year but never allocated.Mixed reaction
Jordan recalled its charge d'affaires from Belgrade, its only diplomat at the Jordanian mission, "to express its condemnation of the annihilation and the heinous crimes which the Albanian people of Kosovo have been subjected to," according to a statement issued by Jordan's royal court late on Tuesday. Iraq was among the first to condemn the NATO strikes. Abdel-Ghani Abdel-Ghafur, a member of the ruling Baath Party's leadership, told Iraqi newspapers that the strikes were "proof that the US is carrying out a plot against free countries" and was using NATO as "a tool."Iran, protested to Yugoslavia over reported killings of ethnic Albanian Muslims in Kosovo, but a statement issued by the Foreign Ministry on Friday also criticised the NATO air strikes.
