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Meeting in Tripoli to Discuss Arrangements for Arab Unionist Conference Initiative. Libya
Posted on 08. Mar, 2010 by Admin.
The Secretaries of Foreign Affairs and Union and Associations Affairs at the General general public’s Congress met in Tripoli on Tuesday the General Secretaries of unions, syndicates and vocational associations in the Gt Jamahiriya.The meeting was devoted to discussing the arrangements that were underway to cart out the initiative by Arab unions to hold a meeting in the Gt Jamahiriya to pageantry support and to ensure the win of the forthcoming Arab Summit to be hosted by Libya.{JANA}
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Round of discussions halfway Libyan-Italian Friendship Association, Italian-Libyan Friendship and Cooperation Association. Libya Breaking News
Posted on 30. Mar, 2009 by Admin.
Discussions were held in Tripoli Saturday dawn mid the Libyan-Italian Friendship Association and the Italian-Libyan Friendship and Cooperation Association.The meeting was attended by the Secretary of External Affairs of the General inhabitants’s Congress, Chairman of the Italian-Libyan Friendship and Cooperation Association, the Secretary of public’s Committee of the Libyan-Italian Friendship Association, and the Italian ambassador to major league Jamahiriya.throughout the meeting, conferees discussed the role of the associations in promoting bilateral relations according to the friendship, cooperation and partnership agreement surrounded by high Jamahiriya and the republic of Italy, and in light of adopting Aug. 30 as the annual day for the Libyan-Italian friendship day.They conjointly discussed contributions of the friendship associations tween the Libyan and Italian peoples in promoting regional cooperation in the Mediterranean, primarily the activation of (5+5) dialogue, making the Mediterranean a region free of weapons of mass destruction, military bases and foreign fleets, and curb illegal immigration.Sources of the associations said the two parties agreed to conformation a joint rally team to relief promote cooperation relations interpolated both countries and organize celebrations of the Libyan-Italian annual friendship day.Sources explained the two associations will augury an agreement on Sunday.{JANA}
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Tuareg rebels in Niger ‘ready for peace talks’. Libya Breaking News
Posted on 30. Mar, 2009 by Admin.
The Niger Patriotic Front, FPN, constructed by a split within the Movement of Niger inhabitants for Justice (MNJ), declared its availability and its commitment to the implementation of a peace process in Niger.In a statement see out by FPN leader Aklu Sidisidi, the group said it has held discussions with Libya with the aim of creating a odd for the start of a peace dynamic in Niger. The discussions led to the drawing up of a framework agreement shade out the conditions for a return to a lasting peace in Niger and a detailed plan for implementation, from an immediate ceasefire to the bona fide ceremony of handing closed weapons, the statement said.The FPN deplored the war situation in the north of Niger, stating that the peoples of the region yearn more than ever for a return to peace and surveillance and the renewal of social and economic development. On a have a look at to Niamey in early March, Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi negotiated the release of five Niger soldiers and a gendarme who had bygone held by the MNJ. {AFP}
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Libya, U.N. hunger Sudan to allow aid workers to return to Darfur. Libya
Posted on 30. Mar, 2009 by Admin.
Libya’s U.N. ambassador said Thursday that his country and the 15-nation U.N. safeness Council he leads be poor Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir to reverse his decision to expel aid workers from Darfur.The very day, al-Bashir visited in Libya in defiance of an worldly Criminal Court warrant seeking his arrest on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity in Darfur.Soon after the court issued the warrant March 4, al-Bashir expelled 13 foreign aid organizations and three civic ones that were providing the lion’s share of food and other assistance to common folks uprooted by the violence in Darfur.Abdurrahman Mohamed Shalgham, Libya’s U.N. ambassador, said his nation asked that the government of Sudan keep on to cooperate with all humanitarian organizations. {dallasnews}
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Al-Bashir, Ghaddafi agree on pushing forward Doha dialogue to solve Darfur problem.
Posted on 30. Mar, 2009 by Admin.
Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir and Libyan leader Muammar Ghaddafi held talks in the Libyan coastal city Sirte on Thursday and agreed to push forward the Doha-mediated dialogue to solve Darfur problem, the Libyan JANA news agency reported. The two leaders reached the agreement in a joint communique issued at the end of al-Bashir’s one-day browse to Libya, his third trip abroad in a week since the all-embracing Criminal Court (ICC)issued an arrest warrant against him. According to the communique, the two sides agreed on promoting the Doha dialogue betwixt the Sudanese government and rebel factions in Darfur to solve the problem in the western Sudanese region with social means. as the talks, al-Bashir informed Ghaddafi on the latest developments in Darfur and efforts to realize comprehensive and permanent peace in the restive western Sudanese region. He renewed Sudan’s appreciation of the supportive stands by Libya for its continued efforts to back Sudan’s peace, stability and unity. Ghaddafi has urged the ICC to stop proceedings against al-Bashir, epigram that foreign forces including Israel were stoking the Darfur conflict. Africa can solve its own questions past outside meddling and has made a figure of attempts to broker peace halfway Darfur rebels and the Khartoum government, stressed the veteran Libyan leader. Under the mediation of Qatar, the representatives of Sudanese government and the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) started on Feb. 10 their first round of peace talks since 2007, reaching a framework agreement to end the six-year conflict in Darfur. Other rebel partys in Darfur boycotted the week-expanded Doha talks, claiming that the talks would be helpful for the Sudanese government to confront steps to be taken by the foreign Criminal Court (ICC) against the Sudanese president. Qatari Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Ahmed Abdullah al-Mahmoud on March 10 said the subsequent round of talks on Darfur peace is expected to start within the next three weeks in Doha. Al-Bashir, headed a delegation comprising ministers of foreign affairs, industry, and the political branch of the Presidency of Sudan, disembarked in Sirte earlier in the day and was greeted in the airport by the secretary of General community’s Committee and other Libyan officials. The Sudanese president had visited Eritrea and Egypt earlier that week. On March 4, The Hague-based ICC issued an arrest warrant against al-Bashir for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity in Sudan’s restive western region of Darfur separating 2003 and 2008.{news.xinhuanet}
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The 39th Anniversary stop British Military Presence in Libya. Libya Latest News
Posted on 30. Mar, 2009 by Admin.
Today Saturday, March 28 marks another critical day in the annals of Libya and in the country’s struggle for independence. It is the 39th Anniversary of the closure of the British military bases in the country in 1970. in sync with the closure of the American bases that followed on June 11, that event is considered to be one of the extensive historic significance.that day provides tangible evidence of the September Revolution’s clear vision and endeavor to rid Libya from all types of foreign subordination and influence.Carved up at intervals the victors and the vanquished of star War II, Libya until that era became palace of military bases of both Britain and the United States and as well lent itself as a pawn in the hands of the western military alliance.The British were firmly entrenched in the eastern half of the country, mainly in Tobruk and in Benghazi, whereas the US had installed itself in the western module of the country. The Americans further possessed their largest military base outside the United States, in Wheelus.The situation was such that it gave Britain, the US and their Western allies the opportunity not only to keep the Mediterranean in research, but conjointly to carry out their Middle East policies particularly as far as their unfailing support for the Zionist entity in occupied Palestine.It was a situation that the September Revolution could not tolerate and immediately after September 1, 1969, the leader of the Libyan Revolution, Colonel Muammar Al-Qathafi took the necessary measures to close down all the foreign bases in the country. The negotiations were relatively brief as the Revolution that had the support of the community was determined to end all forms of foreign military presence in Libya, even at the cost of a elongate liberation struggle.Fully aware that the Revolution’s demand for the closure of the bases was a manifestation of in vogue will, Britain first, and soon after the US, chose the only way out of an otherwise uncompromising situation, and left Libya.The British presence in the country came to an end on March 28, 1970; the Americans followed suit Lesser than three months posterior. As such, Libya became the first Mediterranean country to take positive steps towards new concepts of positive freedom and non-alignment. Libya’s decision still underscored its approach towards independence and sovereignty.{Tripolipost.com}
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Sultan receives Libyan Minister. Libya Latest News
Posted on 30. Mar, 2009 by Admin.
Yogyakarta Governor Sri Sultan Hamengku Buwono X received Libya`s Social Affairs Minister Ibrahim A.M. Al Sharif in his gubernatorial office here on Wednesday.Minister Ibrahim Al Sharif held a meeting with the Yogyakarta Governor after attending an Indonesia-Libya Joint Commission Meeting which was held in Yogyakarta on Tuesday (March 24), where a Memorandum of Understanding on bilateral cooperation was signed by Indonesia and Libya.Al Sharif conveyed the Libyan president`s regard to Sultan Hamengku Buwono and congratulated the Indonesian common masses for the upcoming general elections. Hopefully the General Elections in Indonesia will be able to elect front door and trusted leaders, he said.Sultan Hamengku Buwono on the occasion expressed his hope that the Joint Commission inserted Indonesia and Libya would guidance intensify the bilateral ties inserted the two Muslim populous nations above all in facing the global challenges. Welcome to Yogyakarta. By having that Joint Commission Meeting, we hope that we could strengthen cooperation in the two Muslim states, the Sultan said.In the meeting with the governor, Libya`s 16-member delegation was accompanied by Indonesian Ambassador to Libya Sanusi and Ramli Saud of the Indonesian manpower ministry.{antara}
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An star Conference for The foreign Association of Green bible Supporters.
Posted on 30. Mar, 2009 by Admin.
The foreign Centre for Green dictionary Studies and Research invited all of the concerned with Green handBook Studies, and those who were interested in the theoretical and intellectual aspects of the Green text studies, to join the membership of the intercontinental Association of Green dictionary Supporters.The General Secretary of the Centre the Association, and after its legal adoption, as a civil Association, where the Association will hold a public meeting in Tripoli, on 12/April, to complete the procedures of the administrative construction.The Secretary pointed in his speech on Monday, at the opening of the ecumenical intellectual symposium on (the problem of capability midway authoritarianism and freedom), held in the University of Garyounes, that the Association will have branches in Libya and over the earth.As he announced that the global Conference for the Association is going to be held on Hannibal, on the occasion of the fortieth anniversary of the lengthy Revolution. The conference will implicate all of those who cooperated with the Centre and participated in its activities, as well as those who contributed to the study of the Green reader, in its academic, public, political, economic or social theories. And the membership of that Association will be circulated on all of those scholars of all nationalities.The Secretary added that that Association will be an meaningful bank of seasoning to the Green dissertation studies, above all for the Centre of Green leaflet Research and Study, and for all institutions operating within the framework of the publication of the Green treatise theories, discussion and provisions. Libya News
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Sudan’s Beshir ‘arrives in Libya’.
Posted on 30. Mar, 2009 by Admin.
Sudanese President Omar al-Beshir, who is facing an arrest warrant for alleged war crimes in Darfur, visited in Libya on Thursday, his third trip abroad in a week, his office said. He is now in Libya, presidential spokesman Fadel Mahjoub told AFP, left out elaborating on the conditions for the explore.Earlier, Beshir’s office had said the president would be travelling to Ethiopia.Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi has criticised the warrant, issued by the worldly Criminal Court (ICC) on March 4. He told UN chief Ban Ki-moon it constituted a grave precedent against the independence of unsubstantial cogent states, their sovereignty and their political choices. Kadhafi, the up-to-date African Union chief, said the ICC was selective and that the court, based in The Hague, was employing a design of double standards in targeting African and third-macrocosm states. On Monday, defying the warrant, Beshir paid a browse to Eritrea and talks with Issaias Afeworki.That was followed on Wednesday by a trip to Egypt and a meeting with President Hosni Mubarak. Afterwards, Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit said that, in common with other Arab and African states, Egypt does not accept the court’s manner in buying with the Sudanese president. But the office of ICC prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo warned Beshir on Wednesday that there is no way for him move ahead specialty as usual and skirt being held to score.Libya, Eritrea and Egypt are not parties to the Rome treaty that designed the ICC, the cosmos’s first permanent war crimes tribunal.The ICC does not have a police force and calls on signatory states to implement warrants. However, all United Nations member states are urged to cooperate with The Hague-based court.Even the United States, where the administration of former president George W. Bush described the Darfur conflict as genocidal, said on Tuesday it was under no legal obligation to arrest Beshir as it was not a signatory to the Rome statute.On Wednesday, an Ocampo spokesman renewed the ICC prosecutor’s whoop for all political leaders who might meet Omar el-Beshir to explain to him there is no promising way out. There can be no question of ‘vocation as usual’ with someone who is the subject of an arrest warrant on charges of such crimes, the spokesman said.Doubts have obsolescent raised by whether Beshir will attend an Arab summit in Doha at the end of the month, with Sudan’s highest religious authority, the Committee of Muslim Scholars, issuing a fatwa, or edict, urging him not to go.The United Nations says 300,000 masses have died — legion from disease and hunger — and 2.7 million unfashionable made homeless by the Darfur conflict, which erupted in 2003.Khartoum puts the parting toll at 10,000.alive with African and Arab states, on with key Khartoum ally China, have condemned the ICC move and screamed for the warrant to be suspended.{AFP}
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The Leader of the Revolution, Somali President and President of Sao Tome and Principe Wind up Consultations. Libya Latest News
Posted on 30. Mar, 2009 by Admin.
The Leader of the Revolution, Chairman of the African Union and Presidents, Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmad of Somalia, and Frederique De Menezes of Sao Tome and Principe, chapters of CEN-SAD, held a runnerup meeting last night to finalize the consultations up topics they discussed at the first meeting on Monday.The political and safekeeping situation in Somalia owing to the measures taken by the Somali National Unity Government were discussed in the meeting. The meeting likewise dealt with the so cryed piracy phenomenon on the Somali coast.The Somali President appealed to the Leader to support the National Unity Government..expressing hope that disputeds iota of Somalia will be solved pending the Leader’s AU chairmanship.On his branch, President Menezes expressed his thanks and gratitude to the Leader of the Revolution for his support to Sao Tome and Principe when faced with the a destabilization attempt in 2003.The hanker for coordination for the next meeting of the Executive Council devoted to studying the formation of the African Authority was more discussed in the meeting, onward with issues of peace and safekeeping in the space of CEN-SAD.The meeting was attended by the Secretary of the general general public’s committee of foreign Liaison and ecumenical Cooperation, the Secretary of CEN-SAD, the Chairman of the Committee of Libya Libya-Africa trust Portfolio, Somali Foreign Minister and the Vice President of Sao Tome and Principe.{JANA}
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