Arabic News Weekly Edition for Libya, 8/11/2003
Weekly Edition, Libya - Week of August 11, 2003
- Libya admitts responsibility at UN security council; Washington abstains from voting, keeps sanctions
The UN sanctions crisis imposed on Libya has reached the final phase for solution yesterday with the confirmation made by American officials that Tripoli gave a message of recognition to the UN Security Council in which it vows to "accept responsibility for the acts of its officials" in the blowing up incident of the Pan Am plane over the Scottish Lockerbie town in 1988. Libya-USA, Politics, 8/16/2003 - Egypt, Libya $300 million oil and gas company
Chairman of the General Authority for Investment and Free Zones (GAFI), Mohamed Al-Ghamrawi, held talks with the visiting Libyan trade delegation on easing measures for trade exchange between the two states. Libya-Egypt, Economics, 8/16/2003 - Libya accuses France of blackmail to lifting the UN sanctions
The secretary of the Libyan people's general committee for foreign contacts and international cooperation Abdul Rahman Shalqam has accused France of practicing what he described "the policy of unaccepted pressure and blackmail" concerning lifting the UN sanctions imposed on Libya. Libya-France, Politics, 8/16/2003 - Details of the agreement with Libya concerning Lockerbie issue
It is decided that Libya will hand over to the chairman of the UN Security Council -- who is currently Syria's representative Mikhael Wahba -- a message in which it admits responsibility over the incident and define conditions for paying financial compensations for the victims and Tripoli confirms it will recognize only civilian responsibility. Libya, Politics, 8/16/2003 - Libya confirms reaching some agreement on Lockerbie
Libyan sources confirmed yesterday news of reaching a settlement agreement with the US and Britain concerning the Lockerbie case following the Tripoli's announcement to pay compensations for the families of the victims of the case. Libya-France, Politics, 8/15/2003 - Claims of agreement for the Lockerbie issue
A lawyer said that Libya and lawyers representing families of the victims of the Lockerbie plane explosion yesterday signed in London an agreement to open a bank account to deposit compensations at a cost of 2. 7 billion dollars. Libya-USA, Politics, 8/14/2003 - Egypt- Libya complete elimination of customs fees and restrictions
Egypt and Libya have signed a trade and customs agreement for exempting commodities from all customs fees and removing all customs and non- customs restrictions with the aim to double bilateral trade. Egypt-Libya, Economics, 8/13/2003 - Qathafi: Hegemony and arbitrariness rules international affairs today
Libya's Leader: What happened in Iraq is a serious precedent during this epoch. This takes us back to the era of the league of nations which collapsed through such behaviour. We know that it is Hitler who acted outside the charter of the League Of Nations and he caused the collapse of the League Of Nations and involved the world in the second world war. Libya-Regional, Politics, 8/13/2003 - Libya reforms in human rights and the penal code
The secretariat of the general peoples committee for justice and public security in Libya "has saluted to the al Qathafi International Foundation for Charitable Societies for the huge efforts it is exerting towards enhancing human rights at the world level and its attention to the human rights issue within the Great Jamahiriya," the official news agency reported yesterday. Libya, Politics, 8/12/2003 - president of Croatia in Libya Libya-Croatia, Economics, 8/12/2003
- Al-Shara hold telephone talks with Shalqam Syria-Libya, Politics, 8/12/2003
- Libya denies story on Charles Taylor of Liberia
"An official source at Libyan Arab airlines denied a report in the Washington Post about the flights of President, Charles Taylor of Liberia to Libya on board one of its air planes," the official libyan news agency reported Saturday. Libya-Liberia, Politics, 8/11/2003