Libya:
News and Views
Wednesday, 6 September, 2000: The Arab League
announced on Tuesday its member states will stop applying United Nations
sanctions on Libya "as soon as possible", calling the UN Security Council
for an immediate and final lifting of all the sanctions. The final
communique of the Arab League
ministerial council called on the United States to settle problems blocking the
way for normalising relationships with Libya, leaving the Lockerbie issue to
the courts. [AFP]
Wednesday, 6 September, 2000: The secretary of the
Libyan- Arabrelations bureau in Damascus Salem Muhammad al-Shweihdi and his
wife onSaturday evening held a dinner party in Damascus on the occasion of
the 31st
anniversary of al-Fateh revolution in Libya. It was attended by the Syrian
minister of state for foreign affairs Nasser Qaddour, the minister of education
Mahmoud al-Sayed, the minister of supply Osama al-Barid, political and trade
activists in Damascus and members of the Arab and foreign diplomatic missions
in Syria. [Arabic News]
Wednesday, 6 September, 2000: Libya on Tuesday
accused the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency and Israeli Mossad agents of
assassinating its ambassador to the Central African Republic last week.
Abdullah Awad Sanussi
was shot by an unidentified gunman at his home in Bangui, capital of the
Central African Republic, on August 29. "Mossad and CIA agents are
responsible for masterminding and executing that criminal and coward act,"
Libya's African Unity Ministry said in a statement. The ministry said it would
"spare no effort to follow through the investigation into the crime to uncover
the perpetrators, who will be punished". [Reuters]
Wednesday, 6 September, 2000: The Libyan minister
in charge of African Affairs, Ali Triki, has urged the European Union to
henceforth dea with Africa as a united continent and to stop its colonial
policy based on the principle of "divide and rule." He accused the EU
before the 114th ordinary
session of the Arab League in Cairo of trying to sow the seeds of discord in
Africa. Triki also called on Europe to deal with Arab States as a unified
community. [PANA]
Wednesday, 6 September, 2000: Libyan leader Col.
Moammar al-Qadhafi, King Abdallah II of Jordan, and Presidents Patasse of
the Central African Republic, Kerekou of Benin and Yala of Guinea Bissau
and former
Algerian President Ben Bella visited several sites and installations of
the Great started on 28 August 1984. The aim is to provide Libya's coastal
cities and fertile northern plains with six million cubic meters of water
daily from the underground reserves located in the southern desert. [PANA]
Wednesday, 6 September, 2000: A Libyan negotiator
who recently secured the release of several Western hostages from Muslim
rebels returned to the Philippines on Tuesday and said more could soon be
freed. Rajab Azzarouq flew into Manila from Tripoli where he had
accompanied six Europeans freed last week by Abu Sayyaf rebels based in the
southern Philippines. He was in Tripoli for a ceremonial handover of those
released to their governments. ``We are happy to be back...hopefully in the
next few days all the hostages would be released,'' the former Libyan
ambassador to the Philippines told reporters. [Reuters]
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