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Libya News and Views Saturday, 21 April, 2001: Libya said Friday that U.S. sanctions against it had failed and declared that the trial of two Libyans over the 1988 bombing of a Pan-Am airliner had cleared Tripoli of any blame. Libyan African Unity Minister Ali Triki's comments were the first official reaction to U.S. President Bush's statement Thursday that Washington had no intention of easing sanctions on Libya and Iran. "The (Bush) decision was not new ... We see that it will not help settle the problems and the policy of imposing sanctions has failed. It is not the right policy," Triki told reporters during a visit to neighboring Tunisia. "We reject being made to take on any responsibility for this matter. The Scottish court itself had canceled all the prosecution claims for a Libyan state responsibility. Therefore there is absolutely no responsibility," Triki said. [Reuters] Saturday, 21 April, 2001: Libya will build a 100,000 US dollar secondary school in the city of Juba in southern Sudan, the official Sudan News Agency reported on Thursday. Laying the school's foundation stone Thursday, Sudanese foreign minister Mustafa Osman thanked Libyan leader Mu'ammar al-Qadhafi for deciding to build the school. "By deciding to build the school, the Libyan leader is seeking to create a new generation of Sudanese that cherishes African unity," Osman said. Speaking on behalf of the Libyan government, Engineer Atiyya Eiman called on Africans to join hands in order to develop the continent. [PANA] _________________________________________________ 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] __________________________________________________