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Rice
To Visit Gaddafi As Tripoli Commits To
Agreement With Europe |
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August 28, 2008
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will
embark on a visit to Libya next week,
a US official told AFP Tuesday, the first time
the top US diplomat travels to the country
since 1953.
AFP said the US official, who spoke on
condition of anonymity, did not give a precise
date for the trip, saying it would take place
"next week."
No mention was made of Rice's agenda in the
Libyan capital, but it is likely she will meet
with Leader of the Revolution Muammar Al-Qaddafi.
The last US secretary of state to visit Libya
was John Foster Dulles, who met with Libya's
King at the time, Idris Sanusi, in 1953.
US-Libya relations which were suspended in
1981 were restored in early 2004.
In 2006, the United States announced a full
normalization of ties, dropping Libya from a
State Department list of state sponsors of
terrorism and raising diplomatic relations to
the level of ambassadors.
Libya to Sign Free Trade Agreement with
Europe, Saif Al-Islam
Libya will sign a free trade accord with the
European Union soon, said Saif Al-Islam
Muammar Al-Qathafi on Wednesday, 20 August
2008.
"We will reach an association accord with the
European Union soon to export goods to markets
there without tariffs," Saif told a youth
rally in the southern city of Sebha, 800 km
(500 miles) from Tripoli.
Saif, whose speech was broadcast live on
Libyan state television, said the accord with
the EU was a result of the North African
country's improved ties with Europe and the
United States since 2003.
"Who would have believed that we would reach
such achievements? They are reality now,"
added Saif, his father's most trusted envoy
abroad.
Saif al-Islam said his North African country
has to strive to build a better future based
on independent institutions and a thriving
civic society since it had reconciled with the
West.”Reforms will start by a new
administration structure and end with a
popular contract which will keep the
Jamahiriyah system in place but with a new
form that is different from the bad initial
one," said Saif.
"Now we want to agree on laws that rule us in
the future. The era now is different. We want
a new administrative system, law and a
constitution for once and all that do not
change each time," said Saif.
Saif named an independent media and judiciary
as the pillars of the future reformed
political system and a free civic society bent
on defending human rights.
"We are living in a forest ruled by
dictatorships and hereditary regimes that
trample human rights. All are dictatorships
with fictitious parliaments and
constitutions," said Saif, giving his view of
the Middle East and North Africa's Arab
political landscape.
He said Libya's reformed political system must
be different from those in the Arab world now.
"It should be an example and a model in the
Middle East," he added.
"We Arabs have become a mockery, with
pervasive torture and sites of secret
prisons," he added. Saif said reforms in Libya
were on track to succeed. "The train of
reforms is on track. It has not reached its
final stop but it is on a good track to
arrive," he added, claiming a leading role for
himself.
"I had played a role in diplomacy, in
government, in development policy and other
things because Libya has no institutions to do
that," he said. |
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