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Zuma Gives Account Of His Encounter With Libyan Leader Gaddafi
5 July 2009
Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi had his own style in conducting meetings, President Jacob Zuma said jokingly in Durban on Saturday. "He has his own ways of holding meetings," said Zuma at a two-day ANC provincial general council at the University of KwaZulu-Natal's Westville campus. Describing how the AU chairperson conducted the 13th AU summit in his country this week, Zuma said a quarter of the speeches during the meeting had been made by him. "He forgets that there is lunch time and he forgets that people have to sleep," said Zuma. Zuma and other South African delegates arrived in South Africa from Libya at 7am on Saturday. During the AU meeting, there were reports that some delegates were complaining that Gaddafi was bulldozing his vision of forming a United States of Africa. Continues Below ? Concluding marathon talks late into the night, African leaders agreed on Friday to a Libyan-driven push to transform the AU and in theory greatly extend its powers. The change was materialised by morphing the AU's executive body, the commission, into an "African Authority". The draft document showed that the new Authority would simplify the AU's structure and boost its power over defence, diplomatic and international trade matters. The document was viewed as a milestone for the build-up to what Gaddafi has long envisioned as a federal government overseeing a "United States of Africa". - Sapa-AP
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