Arabic News Weekly Edition for Libya, 1/21/2002
Weekly Edition, Libya - Week of January 21, 2002
- Iraqi- Libyan talks Libya-Iraq, Politics, 1/24/2002
- US - Libyan near agreement on Lockerbie, paper says
The US USA Today said on Wednesday that the US and Libya has approached an agreement that might be conducive to lifting the name of Libya from the American list of the countries which sponsor terrorism. Libya-USA, Politics, 1/24/2002 - U.S. says Libya must comply with U.N. obligations
The White House spokesman denied a report in the January 23 newspaper USA Today that the United States and Libya were close to a deal under which Gaddafi's government would pay as much as $6 billion in compensation for the bombing of Pan Am 103 and then Libya would be taken off the State Department list of rogue nations. Libya-USA, Politics, 1/24/2002 - Positive developments in the Libyan- French relations
The current week has been witnessing intensive Libyan- French contacts and meetings at more than one level. At the political level, the assistant secretary general of the foreign relations at the Libyan people's general congress Suleiman al-Shahoumi is in a visit to France on top of a huge delegation. The visit will be ended on Friday. Libya-France, Politics, 1/23/2002 - British daily: A secret deal between US, Britain, Libya; compensating Lockerbie victims
A secret deal was reached between Britain, the US and Libya according to which Libya will be obliged to pay financial compensations for the victims of the Lockerbie incident. Libya, Politics, 1/22/2002 - Message from Mubarak to Gaddafi
The Egyptian president yesterday delegated Minister of Information Safwat AL Sherif to Colonel Muammer Gaddafi the leader of the Libyan revolution after he had received a message from Lebanese President Emile Lahoud including an invitation to him to attend the Arab summit, which will be held in Beirut on March 27-28. Libya-Egypt, Politics, 1/21/2002 - A message from al-Bashir to al-Qaddafi
Libyan President Muammar al-Qaddafi on Sunday received a message from the Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir dealing with bilateral relations and Arab and international issues of mutual concern as well as the results of IGAD's summit recently held in al- Khartoum. Libya-Sudan, Politics, 1/21/2002 - Libya, Canada sign a memorandum of understanding
The secretary of the people's general committee for foreign relations and international cooperation in Libya Abdul Rahman Shalqam and Canada's minister of State for Africa and Latin America affairs David Kliffore have stressed the need to continue the peace process in the Middle East and to halt the current grave implications in the region. Libya-Canada, Politics, 1/21/2002