Libya to join European - Mediterranean partnership
Libya-Regional-European Union, Economics, 4/7/1999

It is expected that Libya will become the 28th member of the European - Mediterranean partnership known as the Barcelona declaration countries, as an result of the recent Libyan position toward the Lockerbie problem.

Egypt's assistant foreign minister for European affairs, who has supervised the Barcelona process since its beginnings in 1996, Fathi El-Shazely, said he expects Libya's participation in the Stuttgart meetings through Libya joining the Barcelona declaration countries, to which Libya did not belong due to the Lockerbie impasse.

During preparations for the third conference of the Barcelona process' foreign ministers, decided to be held in the German city of Stuttgart on April 15 - 16, as Germany is the current head of the European Union, Egypt is seeking to convince its European partners to issue Libya an invitation to attend the coming ministerial meetings as it took a positive stand towards trying the two Libyan suspects in the Lockerbie explosion.

The Barcelona countries include the 15 EU member states and eight Arab states, Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Palestine, Syria and Tunisia, in addition to four other Mediterranean countries, Cyprus, Israel, Malta, and Turkey.

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