Arabic News Weekly Edition for Libya, 3/15/1999
Weekly Edition, Libya - Week of March 15, 1999
- Gaddafi accepts South Africa, Saudi guarantees to hand the two suspects
President of Libya Col. Moammar Gaddafi has announced his acceptance of guarantees proposed by King Fahd Bin Abdul Aziz of Saudi Arabia and President Nelson Mandela of South Africa on trying the two Libyans suspected of being involved in the 1988 explosion of a passenger jet over Lockerbie, Scotland. Libya-South Africa, Politics, 3/20/1999 - Mandela says Libya to put an end to Lockerbie issue
South African President Nelson Mandela is visiting Libya for talks with Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi on the trial of two Libyan suspects in the 1988 bombing of a PanAm jetliner and has reported that real progress has been made. Libya-Saudi Arabia-South Africa, Politics, 3/19/1999 - Libya establishes the first Oasis in Toshka
The first Oasis in the Toshka area is being established with Libyan investment and financing in the framework of the Egyptian - Libyan joint plan for establishing four similar Oases in the new cities in the South Valley, Rafah, Sinai, Sidi Barani and the desert road between Cairo and Alexandria to serve development projects and face increasing tourism movement. Egypt-Libya, Economics, 3/19/1999 - Mandela takes part with Gaddafi in a people's meeting in Tripoli Libya-South Africa, Politics, 3/19/1999
- Mandela to head for Libya
Spokesman for the UN Secretary General has asserted that the visit of South African President Nelson Mandela to Libya on Friday in order to meet with Libyan President Moammar Gaddafi is being made in the framework of "coordination with UN Secretary General Kofi Annan and in support of his continued efforts aiming at solving the Lockerbie incident." Libya-South Africa, Politics, 3/18/1999 - Arafat to visit Libya
Palestinian Minister of Planning and International Cooperation Nabil Shaath told ArabicNews.com that Palestinian President Yasser Arafat is going to visit Libya next month according to the invitation issued by Libyan President Moammar Gaddafi. Palestine-Libya, Politics, 3/16/1999 - Lockerbie trial expenses to be shared by the US and Britain
A spokesman at the British Foreign Ministry said in London on Sunday that Britain is pressuring the US to pay half of the costs of trying the two Libyan, the west accuses to be involved in exploding the a PAN AM plane over the town of Lockerbie in Scotland. Libya-UK, Politics, 3/15/1999