Libya News and Views Friday, 9 February, 2001: Chadian President Idriss Deby, met Wednesday in Tripoli with Libyan leader Col. Mu'ammar al-Qadhafi on bilateral and continental issues, officials said. With his host, Deby, who is also Chairman of the Community of Sahelo-Saharan States (SIN-SAD), also reviewed arrangements for the Community's forthcoming third Summit and the OAU's March Summit in Sirte on African Union. Libyan sources said Deby reaffirmed Chad's solidarity with Libya over the Lockerbie affair and the urgent need for the lift of UN sanctions against Tripoli. The Chadian leader called for the release of Libya's Abdel-Basset al-Magrahi, sentenced to life imprisonment in last week's trial over the downing of American Pan Am flight bombing that killed 270 people in 1988 off the Scottish city of Lockerbie. [PANA] Friday, 9 February, 2001: Malaysia has urged the United Nations Security Council to act on the draft resolution to lift sanctions on Libya as soon as possible. Malaysian Permanent Representative to the UN Datuk Hasmy Agam said it was regrettable that the council, on account of the position of one member of the council, was not prepared to act on the draft resolution tabled by Namibia on behalf of the NAM Caucus last December. He said the time had come for the council to take up the draft resolution and to effect the formal lifting of the sanctions that had been unjustifiably imposed on Libya for a crime that the Libyan people had not committed or even accused of committing. [Bernama] Friday, 9 February, 2001: The Libyan Secretary of State in charge of Co-operation in the African Unity Ministry, Mr. Omar Sharbak, was received in Abidjan, late Tuesday afternoon, by the Ivorian Head of State, President Laurent Gbagbo. Mr. Sharbak told reporters that his discussions with President Gbagbo were in relation to the on-going preparations for the next OAU Syrte (Libya) Summit which will essentially focuss on the "historic proclamation of the African Union Constituent Act". [PANA] Friday, 9 February, 2001: Namibian President Sam Nujoma arrived in Tripoli late Wednesday for a working visit to Libya. General Mustapha al-Kharroubi met Nujoma on arrival at Maatigua airport. The president was immediately driven to Col. Mu'ammar al-Qadhafi's Tripoli residence where he had a first meeting with the Libyan leader focussed on African current events and on strengthening bilateral relations between Libya and Namibia. [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] __________________________________________________
