Libyan News and Views Monday, 26 February, 2001: The Libyan leader, Colonel Mu'ammar al-Qddafi, has held talks with President Bashar al-Assad during the Syrian leader's first trip to Libya since succeeding his father last year. Libyan radio said the two men discussed the situation in the Arab world and the Palestinian uprising. It said President Assad also expressed support for Libya in opposing the UN sanctions imposed on it after the Lockerbie bombing in 1988. Mr Assad has now flown back to Damascus, where he's expected to meet the U.S. secretary of state, Colin Powell, Monday. [BBC] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Monday, 26 February, 2001: Libyan leader Mu'ammar al-Qadhafi heaped praise on African states for supporting him in his struggle against Britain and the U.S. over the Lockerbie bombing, Libyan media reported. African leaders helped ease Libya's isolation in 1998 when they decided at an OAU summit to ignore the U.N. embargo imposed on Libya. "The will of Africa won over the will of the colonialist Western powers and forced them to accept Libyan conditions on the sitting and procedures related to the Lockerbie trial," Qadhafi was quoted as saying. Qadhafi was addressing about 50 foreign ministers and other officials at the start of a four-day meeting of the 53-member Organisation of African Unity in Tripoli on Saturday night. [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] __________________________________________________
