Libya News and Views Saturday, 27 October, 2001: Libya shut its airports and ports on Friday and cut telephone links with the outside world to mark a day of mourning for a mass deportation by colonial power Italy 90 years ago, Libyan media said. "All international laws and conventions condemn Italy for what it did to the Libyans...and back their right to seek compensation for all the damages they incurred," the Foreign Ministry said in a statement, reported by Jana. The ministry said Italy apologized to Libya in 1998 and expressed its readiness to pay compensation. [Reuters] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Saturday, 27 October, 2001: Lebanese President Emile Lahoud met with Libyan diplomat Ahmad Ghadaf al-Damm on Thursday to discuss recent regional and international developments. Lahoud and Ghadaf al-Damm discussed bilateral relations and the need for coordination between the governments. Discussions included the Sept. 11 attacks on the US and their repercussions, as well as recent spiraling of violence in Israel and the Occupied Territories. [The Daily Star] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Saturday, 27 October, 2001: Libyan Foreign Minister Abdel-Rahman Shalgam comes to Russia next week, a spokesman for the Libyan embassy in Moscow told Itar-Tass on Friday. Shalgam will visit Moscow to attend a meeting of the inter-governmental cooperation commission. Emergency Situations Minister Sergei Shoigu will lead the Russian delegation. The commission for economic and scientific-technological cooperation is in place since 1997. [Itar-Tass] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Saturday, 27 October, 2001: Libyan leader Mu'ammar al-Qadhafi is ready to trade information and offer police help in the hunt for Osama bin Laden, France's minister for cooperation said on Friday after a trip to Libya and Sudan. "The head of the Libyan state has no intention of participating militarily in the struggle against the bin Laden network but exchanges of information and police cooperation are conceivable," minister Josselin told reporters in Paris. [Reuters] _________________________________________________ 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] __________________________________________________
