> >Libyan Paper Calls On France to Explain > > >Panafrican News Agency > >October 25, 2000 > >Tripoli, Libya > >A Libyan paper emphatically condemned "the attempts of certain French circles >seeking to undermine Col. Moammar Kadhafi and torpedo the good relations >existing between Tripoli and Paris." > >Reacting to the vague attempts of the French courts to open a new inquiry on >Kadhafi, following the complaint lodged by an association of victims of the >UTA DC-10 attack in 1989, the Libyan daily "Al-Zahf Al-Akadhar" denounced the >approach, saying it is a "criminal aggression against the Libyan people." > >"The Libyan masses, represented by the people's congress at the >grassroots,...producers, professionals, intellectuals and writers led by the >movement of revolutionary committees, consider this approach as a direct >aggression against the Libyan people and France bears full responsibility for >it," the daily, an organ of the Libyan revolutionary committees, writes. > >The French justice declared 20 October that an anti- terrorist judge will be >entrusted with the preparation for judgement, of the lawsuit against the >Libyan leader accused of involvement in the 1989 UTA DC-10 attack, according >to one of the attorneys of the association of victims. > >Kadhafi's lawyer, Francois Gibot, said there was no charge against his client >in this case. > >The French government, through the Foreign Ministry, expressed the desire to >pursue the normalisation of its relations with Libya, despite possible legal >proceedings against Kadhafi. > >The Tripoli daily says that "this odious criminal act" runs counter to >France's strategic interests to build special relations with Libya. > >It accuses "imperialist and Zionist circles of plotting, through the French >anti-terrorist judge, Jean-Louis Bruguiere, to torpedo Kadhafi's role in the >defence of the interests of the Arab world and of Africa. > >In this context, it warns France "against this imperial-Zionist alliance" and >invites the French leaders to be vigilant. > >In an interview with a French journal in June, the Libyan leader said that the >UTA DC-10 case was solved and that the Libyan justice had co-operated with >France in this. > >Kadhafi, however, added that Bruguiere is being guided, in this case, by a >personal grudge he has been harbouring since Libya refused him permission to >land in Tripoli on board a battleship during his investigation of the UTA >DC-10 attempt. > >The daily, in this regard, called on France to provide Libyans with a "clear >and official explanation" with regard to this development. > >"The concerned parties should take into account France's interests in Libya, >the Arab world and Africa and reject pressures of the Zionist lobby and its >valets in order to ensure that France remains independent," the Libyan paper >adds. _______________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki - Finland +358-40-7177941, fax +358-9-7591081 e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kominf.pp.fi _______________________________________________________ Kominform list for general information. Subscribe/unsubscribe messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anti-Imperialism list for anti-imperialist news. Subscribe/unsubscribe messages: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________________
