Bill Howard a écrit : > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Rick Rozoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Monday, August 14, 2000 12:02 AM > Subject: [STOPNATO] Chavez In Libya, Visits Graves Of Dozens Killed In U.S. Bombings > > STOP NATO: ¡NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.COM > > Times of India > August 14, 2000 > > Chavez meets Gadhafi after controversial Iraq trip > TRIPOLI: Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez followed up a controversial > trip to Iraq with a visit to Libya on Sunday, another nation often at > odds with the United States and familiar with the sort of U.N. sanctions > he has condemned. > Chavez met with Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi as part of a tour of > fellow member nations of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting > Countries. > Gadhafi also showed Chavez where his adopted daughter died in an April > 1986 U.S. bombing of Tripoli and the port city of Benghazi that killed > at least three dozen people. The strikes were retaliation for a West > Berlin bombing allegedly involving Libya that killed three people at a > disco frequented by U.S. servicemen. > Chavez offered Gadhafi his condolences. The Venezuelan president's visit > Thursday to Baghdad was the first by a foreign head of state since > before the 1991 Persian Gulf War and was condemned by Washington as > bestowing undue credibility on Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. At his > next stop in Indonesia, Chavez called for the lifting of U.N. sanctions > against Iraq in place since its 1990 invasion of Kuwait, which led to > the Gulf War. > The United States has led efforts to isolate Saddam and hold together > the steadily fraying support for U.N. sanctions against Iraq. In the > 1980s and early 90s, it also led the way in ostracizing Gadhafi. > Chavez has a record of bucking the United States and has hailed Libya as > a "model of participatory democracy." "Whoever is disturbed by my words, > I do not care," he said in Jakarta. > Libya fell under a U.N. Security Council air embargo and other sanctions > in March 1992. The sanctions were suspended in April 1999 after Libya > turned over two suspects in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over > Lockerbie, Scotland, that killed 270 people. Though Libya is free of the > restrictions, the sanctions have not yet been formally lifted. > The official U.S. stance toward Libya is under review. Like Iraq, it is > on the U.S. State Department's list of nations that sponsor terrorism, > but officials in Washington have said Libya's links to terrorism have > dropped dramatically since the 1980s. > The United States still maintains unilateral sanctions against Libya, > though they were eased last year. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright > also has been considering revoking a ban on U.S. travel to Libya. > Gadhafi, however, hasn't sought out a better relationship with the > United States, looking instead toward Africa. Some African leaders > ignored the U.N. sanctions, so Gadhafi's isolation - though significant > - never was complete. Today, Gadhafi often casts himself in the role of > a mediator in regional conflicts. > Unlike Iraq, Libya wasn't devastated by the U.N. sanctions. It had moved > its money to neutral areas before its overseas assets were frozen. It > always was able to buy most spare parts for its oil technology, albeit > at higher prices, and sell its oil. And the economy survived, with Libya > remaining one of the few nations without debt. > Since the sanctions were suspended, Libya has been promoting its > heritage and the natural beauty of its deserts and Mediterranean > shoreline in an attempt to revive tourism and make the nation less > dependent on oil. Foreign companies and European dignitaries have been > sending delegations to Libya to explore business opportunities. > Still, more than 90 percent of Libya's revenues come from oil sales, > making the economy vulnerable to wild fluctuations in oil prices, which > plunged as low as dlrs 10 a barrel in 1998 and rose higher than dlrs 30 > earlier this year. > Chavez hopes to hold a Sept. 27 summit of the heads of state of OPEC > countries in Venezuela, the first such meeting since 1975, and he was > expected to formally invite Gadhafi during Sunday's visit. Still ahead > on his OPEC tour were visits to Nigeria and Algeria. (AP) > > ______________________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Start Your Own FREE Email List at http://www.listbot.com/links/joinlb _______________________________________________ Marxist-Leninist-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.wwpublish.com/mailman/listinfo/marxist-leninist-list
