Gaddafi receives African ministers, telephone calls

Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi on Tuesday night received several African ministers including the foreign ministers of Namibia and Zimbabwe, the Ugandan regional cooperation minister, and Gambia's minister of state for foreign affairs, who took part in the farewell ceremony held for the purpose of seeing off the two Libyans suspected of being involved in the Lockerbie incident.

The African ministers congratulated Gaddafi and the Libyan people for the settlement reached for the Lockerbie question and their pride in the way Libya tackled this issue.

Gaddafi received on Tuesday night telephone calls from Tunisian President Zein al-Abidin Bin Ali, the president of the Republic of Niger and the presidents of Mali and Congo. During their telephone conversations, the African presidents congratulated Gaddafi over the victory Libya attained in the Lockerbie issue and the suspension of the UN sanctions.