Libya Ratifies Constitutive Act of African Union
Panafrican News Agency
October 29, 2000
Dakar, Senegal
Libya Sunday deposited its instrument of ratification of
the Constitutive Act of the African Union with the
Organisation of African Unity, according to a release
issued by the OAU from Tripoli.
The release said the Secretary of the General People's Committee for African
Unity, Ali Triki, presented the Instrument of ratification to OAU
Secretary-General, Salim Ahmed Salim, who is on a working visit to Tripoli
at the invitation of Libyan Leader, Col. Moammar Kadhafi.
Salim and Kadhafi later held extensive talks covering among other things,
the recent events in the country, the progress so far made in implementing
the Sirte Declaration and the Summit and Council Decisions taken in Lome,
Togo in July on the establishment of the African Union, the release said.
They also discussed ways of strengthening Afro-Arab Co- operation.
The Libyan legislature ratified the Act establishing the Union 2 October.
Libya, a strong advocate of the initiative, becomes the fourth OAU member
State to ratify the Constitutive Act of the African Union, after Mali,
Senegal and Togo.
Salim is expected to leave Tripoli later Sunday for Lusaka, Zambia, to
attend the special Summit for the launch of the Common Market of East and
Southern Africa (COMESA) Free Trade Area, scheduled for Monday-Tuesday.
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