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Libya, Cuba to Consolidate Relations
Panafrican News Agency (Dakar)
May 18, 2001
Posted to the web May 19, 2001
Tripoli, Libya
The Libyan Jamahirya and Cuba have resolved to consolidate economic
cooperation and to expand, Tripoli sources said at the end of a two-day
visit there by President Fidel Castro.
A communiqu� said both countries have decided to join efforts towards the
creation of a new global economic order capable of achieving justice and
progress for all people.
The two countries asserted the need to implement the resolutions of the UN
General Assembly calling for one-way decisions to cease.
Furthermore, the communiqu� called for sanctions still on Libya to be
immediately lifted, as well as the "unfair embargo on Cuba."
President Castro criticised the verdict of the Scottish court sitting in
Camp Zeist (Netherlands) against Libya's Abdel Basset El-M�grahi, describing
it as more political than legal.
Castro demanded the immediate release of the Libyan national who was handed
a life sentenced.
The two countries also highlighted the need to create an international force
that would play a political role of balance and stability, in a bid to free
the world from the "stranglehold" of international politics.
President Castro, the statement said, praised the efforts of Colonel
Mouammar Kadhafi to establish the African Unity.
In addition, Cuba and Libya reasserted their support to the uprising of the
Palestinian people for the "building of a Palestinian independent state on
its freed land with all Palestinian refugees going back to their homeland."
They called on the international community to interfere to stop the "Israeli
massacres" on Palestinians.
Also both countries expressed deep concern about global environmental
deterioration, and criticised the nonchalance of some world powers,
especially the United States, regarding the Kyoto Protocol on greenhouse gas
reduction.
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Patasse Discusses African Union With Kadhafi
Panafrican News Agency (Dakar)
May 18, 2001
Posted to the web May 19, 2001
Tripoli, Libya
Visiting President Ange-Felix Patasse of the Central African Republic, has
met with the Libyan leader Col. Moammar Kadhafi on the African Union, which
comes into force 26 May, officials said in Tripoli Friday.
Both men also discussed the consolidation of relations between their
countries.
Patasse arrived in Tripoli late Thursday.
His country is a member of the Community of the Sahel-Sahara States
(SIN-SAD), which also groups Libya, Burkina Faso, Egypt, Chad, Djibouti,
Eritrea, Gambia, Mali, Morocco, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sudan and Tunisia.
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Libya News and Views
Sunday, 20 May, 2001: Libya, at the forefront of African unity efforts,
blasted on Saturday US President George Bush's invitation for 35 sub-Saharan
African nations to attend in October a Washington forum on economic and
social reform. "We are in favour of all aid to Africa but demand since the
birth of the the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) that foreign forces
stop splitting Africa between democratic and non-democratic countries," a
Libyan government spokesman said. The Libyan government was responding to
Bush's invitation to African nations made Wednesday as part of US efforts to
strengthen ties with Africa. [AFP]
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