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LNV Sunday, 28 January, 2001: Libya's President Mu'ammar al-Qadhafi Wednesday noon received Syrian Prime Minister Mohammad Mustafa Mero and the accompanying delegation. The meeting was attended by Secretary General of the General Popular Committee Mubarak al-Shamekh and Secretary of the Popular Committee of African Unity. Talks dealt with the political situation in the region and the stalemated peace process as a result of the Israeli intransigent and aggressive policy. Talks also dealt with supporting the Palestinian Intifada, and backing the Palestinian peoples steadfastness in the face of the Israeli occupation forces savage practices. [Syria Times] Sunday, 28 January, 2001: U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell is about to begin a quiet revolution in American diplomacy: he is thinking of scrapping many, and maybe even most, of the punitive sanctions imposed by the U.S. on other countries. Economic sanctions and embargoes are America's foreign policy weapons of choice. They are aimed at changing the ways of international "bad guys." But Powell says he wants to scrap most of them ‹ because he thinks they are not always an effective means of carrying out diplomatic objectives. In his testimony to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee last week, Powell said he wanted to review all the sanctions, with a view to removing some of them. From Libya to N. Korea, Iran to Cuba, it is estimated that as many as 75 countries and their leaders are targeted by unilateral U.S. economic measures. [FOX] Sunday, 28 January, 2001: The Sudanese daily "Alwan" said on Friday that six leaders of the Sudanese political parties and forces which have effect on the Sudanese political arena will meet in the Libyan capital Tripoli during the first week of February. This meeting will be in implementation of the decisions of the tripartite meetings of the foreign ministers of Egypt, Sudan and Libya to revive the Egyptian-Libyan joint initiative. [ArabicNews.Com] _________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki Phone +358-40-7177941 Fax +358-9-7591081 http://www.kominf.pp.fi General class struggle news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe mails to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Geopolitical news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________________