Lockerbie, Kosovo, terrorism debated by OIC foreign ministers
Regional, Politics, 4/19/1999

The Organisation of the Islamic Conference has called for carrying out a practical plan that brings the refugee people of Kosovo back to their homeland very soon.

OIC Secretary General Azeddine Laraki said in a speech before a the preliminary meeting of the senior ranking officials of the OIC's 26th conference for foreign ministers, which started in Jeddah on Sunday and discussed several issues to be debated by the foreign ministers in Burkina Faso's capital next May, that NATO which had intervened for 25 days with the objective of eliminating the racist policy mounted by the Serbs should not to be trapped by the initiatives aimed at providing haven to Kosovo refugees, and rather that the refugees should be returned to Kosovo.

Laraki welcomed the recent positive developments concerning the Lockerbie incident, embodied in Libya's approval to hand over its two citizens suspected of being involved in the incident. He praised the key role played by Saudi Arabia and South Africa in solving the problem.

Laraki explained that "terrorism" has become a phenomenon which the greater states in the world try to link to certain countries as well as "to link terrorism to national liberation movements" despite the fact that the Islamic countries announced "giving up all forms and types of terrorism and extremism."

He stressed the need "to convene an international conference to draw a distinction between terrorism and people's rights to win their freedom."

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