Libya News and Views Thursday, 29 March, 2001: Here are the main points of the final communique from the Arab summit in Amman [concerning Libya] : The leaders "demand the Security Council to lift sanctions imposed on Libya immediately and permanently based on Libya's compliance with the demands of the Security Council because there is no longer any justification for their continuation under any guise. "The Arabs consider themselves free from any commitment to the sanctions in the event that they are reimplemented since Libya has fulfilled all its obligations as required by the Security Council." The leaders "demand the immediate release of Libyan citizen Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi (found guilty in January of blowing up a Pan Am jumbo jet over Lockerbie in Scotland in 1988) who was convicted for political reasons." [AFP] Thursday, 29 March, 2001: More than 3.5 million people in the Arab world are logging on to the internet, led by computer-savvy Emiratis, according to a survey by the Arabic-English web portal Ajeeb.com published Wednesday. Topping the list for highest number of users was the United Arab Emirates with 660,000, representing 24.4 percent of the population. The UAE was followed by Saudi Arabia and Egypt with 570,000 and 560,000 users, making up 2.6 and 0.8 percent of their respective populations. The best Internet penetration rate, after the Emirates, was in Bahrain, with 16.7 percent of the population surfing the web, followed by Qatar with 10.3 percent and Kuwait with 8.2 percent. Libya, Syria, Yemen, Sudan and Iraq had a mere 106,500 Internet users between them, the survey said. [AFP] _________________________________________________ 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] __________________________________________________
