Extracts. >Thursday, 9 November, 2000: A summit of African leaders in Libya agreed >Wednesday to send a force of "neutral" African nations to the Democratic >Republic of Congo's (DRC) in a bid to end that country's civil war, a senior >Libyan official said. The Libyan minister for African Unity, Ali Triki, said >the force, whose composition he did not spell out, would be charged with >"disarming" rebel groups active in the country and to guarantee the security >of (the country's) borders. At the same time, he said Uganda and Rwanda >committed themselves to withdrawing their troops from the DRC prior to the >withdrawal of all other foreign forces from the country. [AFP] Thursday, 9 November, 2000: Russian Minister for Emergency Situations Sergei Shoigu arrived in Libya on a visit on Wednesday. In the airport he was welcomed by deputy secretary of the Supreme People's Committee for Foreign Relations and International Cooperation Faraj Milad. Shoigu will take part in a session of the Russian-Libyan intergovernmental commission on scientific, technical, trade and economic cooperation. He is a co-chairman of the commission. He is also expected to hold talks with secretary of the Supreme People's Committee for Foreign Relations and International Cooperation Abdel Rahman Shalgam, who is also co-chairman of commission. (Itar-Tass) Wednesday, 8 November, 2000: African heads of state will meet in Tripoli Tuesday "in an attempt to find a peaceful solution to the war" in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Libya's minister of African unity said. The minister, Ali el-Triki, said the "heads of state are going to try to establish coordination among those countries that have intervened in this war." The presidents of Senegal, Angola, Zimbabwe, the DRC, Namibia, Uganda, Mali and Rwanda will participate in the summit, which will be chaired by Libyan leader Mu'ammar al-Qadhafi. [AFP] Wednesday, 8 November, 2000: Libya cherishes its relations with China and tries to promote Sino-African cooperation, said Libyan leader Mu'ammar al-Qadhafi when meeting a delegation from the Communist Party of China (CPC) November 6 in Tripoli. Reports quoted Qadhafi as saying Libya highly evaluates the recent Beijing forum on China-Africa Cooperation, which he described as a full success. The delegation arrived in Libya Sunday. It held talks with Secretary of Foreign Affairs Abdul-Rahman Shalgam and other senior officials. [People's Daily] Wednesday, 8 November, 200Tuesday, 7 November, 2000: Libyan leaderTuesday, 7 November, 2000: Libyan leader Mu'ammar al-Qadhafi has promised to track down those responsible for killing black African migrant workers during a recent wave of vigilante attacks. Qadhafi accused hidden forces of trying to derail his plans for a United Africa and said the trials of the killers would be open to the international press. "There must be hidden hands behind this issue which are against the African union," he said. "They conspired against the African project... One has to admit that it is indeed a serious blow aimed at derailing the African project and the Libyan leadership of Africa." Qadhafi said. [leader Mu'ammar al-Qadhafi received numerous solidarity messages from the grassroots levels of the Libyan People's Congresses and abroad following the revival of a case involving the 1989 bombing of a French UTA DC8 over Niger. In their messages, various Libyan and non-Libyan associations denounced what they saw as "an attempt by French judge Bruguiere to deliberately tarnish the name of Qadhafi in an affair with which he has no link." The messages, published in the local media, said the re-opening of the UTA affair was dictated upon the French judiciary by "Zionist circles" irritated by Qadhafi's support for the Palestinian cause and his refusal to allow imperialist control over the people's potential resources. [PANA] _______________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki - Finland +358-40-7177941, fax +358-9-7591081 e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kominf.pp.fi _______________________________________________________ Kominform list for general information. Subscribe/unsubscribe messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anti-Imperialism list for anti-imperialist news. Subscribe/unsubscribe messages: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________________
