CNN.com South African president to meet Gadhafi next week Johannesburg (CNN) -- President Jacob Zuma will visit Tripoli next week for talks with embattled ruler Moammar Gadhafi, according to a statement on the South African leader's website.
Zuma will meet the Libyan leader Monday in "his capacity as a member of the African Union high level panel for the resolution of the conflict in Libya," the statement said. The African Union panel to Libya includes Uganda, Mauritania and South Africa. It is the second trip for Zuma, who was part of an African Union delegation that visited the nation last month. Details of that meeting included cease-fire talks, which appear to have failed. The visit is part of an international effort to end months of standoff as forces loyal to Gadhafi battle rebels demanding his ouster. A coalition of nations under NATO have struck military targets in the nation as part of a U.N. mandate to protect civilians. The airstrikes started in March after the United Nations Security Council authorized "all necessary measures" to protect civilians from government forces eager to crush the uprising. Zuma's visit comes amid a diplomatic spat between the two nations over the fate of South African photojournalist Anton Hammerl, who has been missing in Libya since April and is believed dead. South Africa says that it got assurances from Libya that the journalist was alive. But a Libyan government spokesman said his whereabouts are unknown. "We never had him with us at any stage," spokesman Musa Ibrahim said. As the clashes and airstrikes rage on, the International Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants for Gadhafi and two relatives, linking them to "widespread and systematic" attacks on civilians as they struggle to retain power in Libya. Chief prosecutor, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, has said the court in The Hague will investigate allegations of institutionalized rape in the war-torn country. Gadhafi welcomes the court's investigation, a government official said, adding that prosecutors "have not been to Libya to do an investigation" amid the allegations. CNN's Nkepile Mabuse contributed to this report. Links referenced within this article Find this article at: http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/africa/05/25/south.africa.libya/index.html?hpt=T2 Click Here to Print SAVE THIS | EMAIL THIS | Close Uncheck the box to remove the list of links referenced in the article. © 2008 Cable News Network. ------------------------------------ Post message: prole...@egroups.com Subscribe : proletar-subscr...@egroups.com Unsubscribe : proletar-unsubscr...@egroups.com List owner : proletar-ow...@egroups.com Homepage : http://proletar.8m.com/Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/proletar/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/proletar/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: proletar-dig...@yahoogroups.com proletar-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: proletar-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
