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| Libya urges EU on illegal migrants |
| Libya on Tuesday urged the EU to honour its commitment to help stem the flow of illegal migrants crossing the Mediterranean to Europe in search of work.Libya calls on the European Union to honour its commitment to fight this phenomenon by providing technical aid, training and equipment, the interior ministry said.It also called for the international community to assume its full responsibility on this phenomenon with human dimensions which affects all countries and costs thousands of victims a year in lives lost at sea.While the European Union has been urging greater vigilance by Libya of its maritime borders, Tripoli is seeking one billion dollars in EU aid to combat illegal migration.Libya, a favourite transit point for African migrants with its long land and sea frontiers, argues that the EU has so far failed to respect a July 2007 commitment to set up a joint mechanism to supervise borders.The interior ministry said Libya -- which has agreed to the return of migrants intercepted at sea by the Italian navy -- had spent about 50 million dollars between 2004 and 2008 on border patrols.{AFP} |
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| Secretary General of ( Cen-Sad ) Community Salutes the leader of the Revolution, Chairman of the African Union Second and last addendum. |
| The Secretary General highlighted the leader's remarks about this matter when he addressed the 10th session of the Presidential Council of the Community where he declared Jamahiriya's commitment to launch a mechanical drive to help masses of farmers in the Community to cultivate their lands in addition to a campaign to vaccinate livestock and to prepare teams to fight locusts and insecticides . The Secretary General lauded the leader's tireless efforts that accomplished positive results in many areas within the Community . He called for confronting challenges of wars, disputes and famines that constitute a real concern for all by continuing to promote solidarity and to unite visions and stances to give new vitality to the Community's activities . The Secretary General reviewed in his speech the Community's activities and initiatives last year that included organizing first Tournament of ( Cen-Sad ) Games, the ministerial meetings , covering areas of youth and security and measures taken to fight cross-border organized crime, drugs and terrorism networks .In this context , he referred to the Defense Ministers meeting that discussed conducting joint military maneuvers and exercises to upgrade the capabilities of armed forces of the Community's member states . The Secretary General stressed the importance of exchanging view points about promoting the march of African Union and to unify stands regarding issues to be on the agenda of the next Union's summit to be held in Jamahiriya.He reaffirmed the Community's keen interest to continue cooperation with African and International organizations and its readiness to boost forward mutual partnership to serve the interests of the people of ( Cen-Sad ) in particular and the African continent in general. { JANA } |
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| Ukraine's Premier visits steadfast house. |
| The Prime Minister of Ukraine Yuliya Tymoshenko, and accompanying delegation, paid a visit to the home of the Leader of the Revolution that withstood the failed US-Atlantic aggression on Great Jamahiriya in 1986.During the visit where she was accompanied by the Secretary of the GPC for Health and Environment, the prime minister reviewed the traces of the of the aggression.The Ukrainian prime minister wrote the following statement in the registry book: I wish Libya, its people and leader peace and prosperity, with my condolences to families of the victims .{ JANA } |
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| In the framework of joint cooperation between the two countries, Major General Abu Bakr Younis Jaber meets the commander of the Air Force of Syria. |
| Major-General met, Abu Bakr Younis Jaber, the General Secretary of the Committee's interim defense on Sunday morning with the pilot, Major General, Ahmed Ibrahim Rutteb, the commander of the Air Force and Air Defense Armed Forces in the Syrian Arab Republic, who is on a visit to Great Jamahiriya in the framework of joint cooperation between the two countries.During this meeting, exchange of gifts between the brigade, Abu Bakr Younis Jaber, and the commander of the air force and air defense in Syria, where Interim General Secretary of the Committee to defend the shield. |
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| Libyan played a significant role in dispute contain the Sudanese Chadian and international conditions have contributed to strained relations. |
| Concluded on Sunday night in a hotel in Tripoli Cornthia meetings of experts of the States Members of the Community of Sahel-Saharan States in preparation for the eighth session of the Executive Board of the Council, Oya was present and met with Mr. Ali Abdel Salam Triki, Secretary of African Affairs at General People's Committee for Foreign Liaison and International Cooperation, who pointed out that the first summit session of the Union will be a turning point during the course of this new assembly and a new start for his support and stressed that the assembly Treiki since he was able to achieve many achievements in economic and social fields, there is a bank and major projects to cope with desertification in the assembly and make progress, sent hundreds of tractors for a number of countries Rally for the transition from primitive agriculture to modern agriculture, which would lead to the development and adoption of the African countries themselves in the provision of food, and we hope very much that the assembly will continue its role in the development of the continent and the preservation of its unity. And the role of assembly and Libya in particular, contain the Sudanese Chadian dispute Treiki said that Libya's role is very important in the face of this controversy has played a significant role for the public to contain the conflict and the relations between the two countries has twice been a powerful force for border control and finally a committee was formed according to the eight agreed to complete the aspects of security and military , and a tripartite committee of Libya, Chad and Sudan continued its task of supervision and observation, but the international situation has contributed to more strained relations between the two countries, there is the targeting of Sudan, the problems of the South Darfur, there is the benefit of external parties to raise the problems in Sudan and the Sudan as well as problems with its neighbors, the Israeli entity is seeking to raise unrest in the Sudan, but this does not mean that the two countries do not bear the responsibility of the state of affairs, we tried all our effort to resolve the dispute between them, but both countries did not abide by agreements signed between them in Tripoli and Sirte, and non-interference in internal affairs, but the absence of a trust between them has led to the escalation, I went to the two countries more than once on behalf of the Leader and worked to calm things between them, and visited Chad's Foreign Minister in Tripoli ... Hope that both countries consider these differences that are harmful to them, the security of Chad and Sudan is linked to each other and the security of both countries, we are concerned, the peace will be achieved only through respect for the commitments and national sovereignty and non-interference in internal affairs and supporting the armed opposition groups, we call on both countries to adhere to the agreements signed to achieve peace. And on the latest developments in the negotiations on the issue of Darfur, he said, Triki said the recent negotiations have not achieved any significant progress that whenever there was a perception of progress is decreased, and attributed this to the number of channels that have addressed the problem of Darfur, in addition to external interventions, We are brothers with the country in their quest to solve the problem , but frankly, until now, we can not say there has been progress. The situation in Somalia and called on the Secretary-Treiki the African Union to refrain from contact with the outside interference in the affairs of this country weary of conflict and support the legitimate Government of President Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, who is seeking to bring peace and security, and noted that the Treiki hope that our brothers in Somalia up to the agreement among themselves to stop the bloodshed and bring peace, saying that the situation in Somalia need to pay attention to this country and in the absence of the system is being subjected to the largest piracy and plundering of the wealth and bounty, and this grave situation threatening peace and security in the region and threatens global trade, said that the Somali people have looked forward to peace, security and hope also some of its neighbors should stop interfering in their internal affairs, pointing out that the resolutions of the United Nations to send troops prevented peacekeepers from neighboring countries. In a statement to the newspaper Oya Ambassador Moussa Abdullah accused the State of Eritrea and Ethiopia of being behind the decision of the AU's Peace and Security which was issued on Friday and called on the UN Security Council to take immediate action to punish Eritrea for its support of Islamist rebels in Somalia. The ambassador said that Ethiopia used by the Union institutions in the territory to pass its agenda against the Eritrean people are trying to remove attention from the real problem between us and the occupation of the (Badme) and refusal to implement the Boundary Commission's decision to withdraw from Eritrean territory. Moussa described the decision of the Council that aims to Eritrea, and pointed out that the attitude of Eritrea, the Somali problem is clear and announced by President Isaias Afewerki has repeatedly and publicly call for the cessation of interference in the internal affairs of Somalia and the withdrawal of foreign troops leaving the Somali people chose the form of government they want and to provide support to Somalia to rise again, He pointed out that Eritrea used to such statements when the accused that it had sent troops to Somalia is estimated and given a military but has proved to the world that these allegations are pure invention, while the silence of the world which the Ethiopian troops kill Somali civilians and the displacement of more than a million and a half million people Somali The ambassador said Moussa, we are fully confident that the Leader and as a sponsor of the peace on the African continent is able to restore things to normal, and the presence of the commander at the head of the European support to the issues of the African peoples, and enjoys their trust and believe that it will be Africa's problems. {oealibya} |
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