Al-Qaddafi mixes papers before the Arab summit
Libya-Regional, Politics, 3/4/2002

The secretary general of the Arab League (AL) Amr Moussa on Sunday in Sert city, Libya held talks with the Libyan President Muaammar al-Qaddafi aimed at containing the Libyan threat to have Libya withdraw from the Arab League.

Moussa said upon his arrival at the said Libyan city which overlooks the Mediterranean that his visit comes at a very important time before convening the Arab summit.

Meantime, observers said that the threat made by the Libyan President al-Qaddafi to pull out from the Arab League which he accused of "discrepancy" concerning the Palestinian issue, resulted in re-mixing the papers before the Beirut's summit which will consider the Saudi initiative to settle the issue.

On Saturday al-Qaddafi asked in his speech before the people's committee to study the idea of his country's pullout from the Arab League which has accused of failing to solve the Palestinian cause.

The commentator at the Egyptian daily al-Ahram said that al-Qaddafi's statements were a sort of mixing of the papers and undermining the Saudi initiative. He said that al-Qaddafi wants to say he had proposed the same thing or something similar to it at the previous Arab summit and it was not taken seriously and that is what is behind taking this matter seriously now. Salamah continued that al-Qaddafi's statements will lead to create illusions for the Arab summit rather then helping to prepare the atmospheres for proposing serious initiatives because the Saudi initiative is not an initiative in the real sense of the world. He added that the Saudi initiative is a mere emerging idea which had still and will need a long distance to be an initiative. He made it clear that all Arab efforts exerted to get the necessary support will be lost in the deliberations in order to have al-Qaddafi back away from his position. An Arab diplomatic source in Cairo described al-Qaddafi's statements as non sense.

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