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A senior Iraqi official yesterday said that the U.S. and UK will go ahead of their plans to strike his country regardless of the results of the weapons inspections or the objection of other Security Council members and the international community to such war.

Moroccan Foreign Minister Mohammed Ben Aissa told Gulf News that Arab countries should work out an effective mechanism to fully utilise the important decisions and achievements of the 14th Arab Summit held in Beirut on March 28 and 29.

Participants in the 13th Hope Camp, held by the Sharjah City for Humanitarian Services last week, have asked world governments and non-governmental organisations to highlight the issues of the war-affected and to work jointly to minimise wars and usher in peace worldwide.

A symposium on school theatre here yesterday urged the ministries of education in the GCC states to include theatrical studies in school curricula.

Two disabled men from Palestine and Sudan who are taking part in a symposium on War and Disability being held in Sharjah, appealed to the international community to take tangible steps to achieve peace in their countries and other parts of the world and spare people war and disability.

Remains of old Islamic artefacts and buildings, including a mosque and a fence dating back to the 14th and 16th centuries AD, were unearthed by a Japanese archaeological expedition at the Loulouiyya Archaeological site in Khor Fakkan, bearing evidence that the area provided a major linkage in the international trade network between the Eastern Arab ianPeninsula and Eastern Asia.

Dr Hussam Al Khatib, the winner of this year's King Faisal International Award for his work in Palestinian literature, has urged Arab countries to find an effective unified mechanism for translating new technical terms into Arabic before such terms are used chaotically throughout the Arab world.

The Organising Committee of this year's Ajman Shopping Festival, Ajman Fantazia 2002, has launched a new website to promote the festival worldwide.

Some 286 graduates from the Sharjah Women's College (SWC) of the Higher Colleges of Technology (HCT) were awarded graduation certificates at a ceremony here yesterday.

Sharjah Municipality will provide its services to the public through the Internet before the end of this year as part of the E-Government Project launched by the local government.

A two-day symposium on environmental protection techniques will be organised in Sharjah on January 19 and 20, with the cooperation of the Sharjah Govern-ment and the Government of Brandenburg in Germany.

Sheikh Sultan bin Mohammed bin Sultan Al Qasimi, Crown Prince and Deputy Ruler of Sharjah, yesterday urged the international community to protect children from war, particularly in Palestine where many are killed and others disabled by Israeli atrocities.