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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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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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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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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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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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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President Isaias Afworki renews praise for efforts of Leader of the Revolution.
Posted on 22. Mar, 2009 by Admin.
President Isaias Afworki, of the State of Eritrea, renewed praise for efforts of Leader of the Revolution, Chairman of the African Union, high peace mediator in the CEN-SAD space and beyond, to establish peace and stability across the continent.President Afworki emphasized that leader’s recent visit to Eritrea following the Addis Ababa summit was an opportunity where Eritrean people expressed their love and loyalty to the leader.As he received the delegation of the Revolutionary Committee Movement and the International Center for the Research and Studies of the Green Book, President Afworki said meetings and discussions with the leader Muammer Algathafi have always been open.He reiterated his country’s keenness to bolster cooperation relations with Great Jamahiriya.President Afworki said holding the international forum on Democracy in Africa in the city of Asmara, Eritrea, is a significant step to raise awareness among the people of the continent.{JANA}
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Acting President of Guinea Bissau, Speaker of National Assembly Raimundo Pereira departs Great Jamahiriya.
Posted on 22. Mar, 2009 by Admin.
The acting President of Guinea Bissau, Speaker of National Assembly Raimundo Pereira, and accompanying delegation departed Great Jamahiriyaon Friday.He was seen off at Maitega international airport by the Secretary of the GPC for Foreign Liaison and International Cooperation, the Secretary General of the CEN-SAD Community, a number of coordinators of the Social Popular Leadership of Tripoli and Jfara Shabias, Director of the African department of the GPC for Foreign Liaison and International Cooperation and the Secretary of the Libyan People’s Bureau in Guinea Bissau.{JANA}
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The Secretary of the GPC for Public Security met in Tripoli on Wednesday with the British ambassador to Libya .During the meeting, which was attended by a number of British experts, they reviewed aspects of security cooperation between Libya and Britain with regards to combating illegal immigration and measures of resolving it.In this regard, the ambassador of Britain asserted his country’s keenness to activate security cooperating with Libya, especially border security, combating smuggling, infiltration and providing the sound remedies.The British ambassador reiterated his country’s keenness to fully cooperate with Libya in the different areas.During the meeting, they underlined the importance of exchanging expertise between both countries in training Libyan cadres of public security and rehabilitating them by advanced training courses in Britain and Libya on border security and combating infiltration.
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Malta and Libya have signed a memorandum of understanding on search and rescue, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said this evening. The memorandum of understanding is inspired by the desire of Malta and Libya to further promote the friendly relations between them and the necessity of improving the safety of life at sea in the Mediterranean basin conscious of the great importance of rendering assistance to persons in distress at and over the sea and also the establishment of adequate and effective arrangements for search and rescue services, the ministry said.The MoU provides that both countries coordinate, cooperate and support each other for search and rescue operations within their respective search and rescue regions (SRRs). Both sides also agreed to authorize their Rescue Coordination Centre to request assistance via the rescue centre of the other country and to provide all information on the distress situation in their respective Search and Rescue Region.The Memorandum also provides for joint search and rescue training for inter-operability purposes, exchange of visits and training at the AFM SAR Training centre apart from periodic meetings of representatives of both sides to ensure continued, enhanced cooperation.Foreign Minister Tonio Borg last week discussed illegal immigration in Rome and said that shuld Libya and Italy start joint patrols in Libyan waters, Malta was prepared to offer the participation of AFM personnel. To date all anti-immigration patrols have been held in international waters.Dr Borg also said that talks were expected to be held in the coming days between Libyan ministers, Home Affairs Minister Carm Mifsud Bonnici and himself.{timesofmalta}
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