Saturday, 6 January, 2001: Libyan leader Mu'ammar al-Qadhafi on Thursday slammed as "hollow" U.S. President Bill Clinton's peace proposals for Israel and the Palestinians, warning that disaster would follow if they are agreed and implemented. "The Palestinian president (Yasser Arafat) cannot accept the U.S. plan and, if he does, it will be catastrophic," Qadhafi told a news conference in Tripoli. Qadhafi reiterated his idea for a "democratic Palestinian state" in which Jews and Arabs would live together, as well a return of the millions of Palestinian refugees to territory taken over by Israel and the renouncing by Israel of weapons of mass destruction. During the conference, the Libyan leader also said that Clinton's successor, George W. Bush "is good, like his father", adding: "He is interested in his country and is not a bad person." [Sapa-AFP] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Friday, 5 January, 2001: United States President Bill Clinton extended the nearly 15-year U.S. state of emergency concerning Libya. In a letter he sent to the Congress and the Senate Thursday, Clinton stated, "the crisis between the U.S. and Libya that led to the declaration on January 7, 1986, of a national emergency has not been resolved. Despite the U.N. Security Council's suspension of U.N. sanctions against Libya upon the Libyan government's hand over of the Pan Am 103 bombing suspects, there are still concerns about the Libyan government's support for terrorist activities and its noncompliance with U.N. Security Council Resolutions. For these reasons, I have determined that it is necessary to maintain in force the actions taken and currently in effect to apply economic pressure on the Government of Libya". [US Newswire] ____________________________________________________________________________ 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] __________________________________________________
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