Arabic News Weekly Edition for Libya, 10/13/2003
Weekly Edition, Libya - Week of October 13, 2003
- Saif al-Islam Kaddafi asks France for resolve outstanding issues in settlement talks
Saif al-Islam Kaddafi, son of Libya's leader and chairman of the International Charity Foundation Kaddafi., yesterday reiterated his country's request to that France to make judicial and financial initiatives to end the negotiations concerning compensations for families over the French Ota plane bombing over Niger in 1989. Libya-France, Politics, 10/18/2003 - Qathafi hold telephone talks with Mubarak Egypt-Libya, Politics, 10/17/2003
- Qathafi gets a message from Burkina Faso peer Libya-Burkina Faso, Politics, 10/15/2003
- Libyan- Maltese cooperation relations reviewed Libya-Malta, Politics, 10/15/2003
- Libyan problems in negotiations with Paris
Just one day after the resumption of compensation negotiations between Libya and families of the French Ota plane, the chairman of the Libyan negotiation delegation in Paris, Salah Abdul Salam, yesterday announced that Libya suspended the negotiations after in that "Paris had denied a secret agreement with Tripoli on paying additional compensations for the families of the victims of the "DC 10" plane which was blown up over Niger in 1989. Libya-France, Politics, 10/15/2003 - Al-Qathafi gets a telephone call from Salad Hassan Libya-Somalia, Politics, 10/14/2003
- Secretary general of UMA holds talks with libyan official Libya-Maghreb, Politics, 10/14/2003
- Egyptian envoy to al-Qathafi to convince him stay in the AL
The Egyptian minister of information Safwat al-Sharif visited Libya on Saturday in an attempt to convince Tripoli to "stay within the Arab family" following Libya's repeated requests to pullout from the Arab league AL in protest of its "discrepancy." Libya-Egypt, Politics, 10/13/2003 - French president warns Libya against rescinding commitment to pay compensations to victims of DC 10 downing Libya-France, Politics, 10/13/2003