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Arab League to seek support for Libya
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Copyright ) 1997 Nando.net
Copyright ) 1997 Agence France-Presse
CAIRO (December 3, 1997 11:29 a.m. EST http://www.nando.net) -- The Arab
League said Wednesday it will urge Islamic leaders meeting in Iran next
week to back a resolution calling for the easing of U.N. sanctions
imposed on Libya in 1992.
"I expect the proposals adopted by the Arab League foreign ministers'
meeting in September on Libya to receive the support of Islamic nations"
at the Organization of the Islamic Conference summit, said Arab League
Secretary-General Esmat Abdel Meguid.
He said he will ask the Islamic Conference to put the Libyan issue on
the agenda of the Dec. 8-11 summit in Tehran.
Abdel Meguid was speaking to reporters after chairing an Arab League
committee meeting on Libya.
The United Nations imposed an air and military embargo on Libya in 1992
over its refusal to handover two suspects wanted in Britain and the
United States in connection with the 1988 bombing of a plane over
Lockerbie, Scotland. A total of 270 people were killed.
U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Monday decided to send a mission to
Libya to examine the impact of the sanctions.
Arab League foreign ministers meeting in Cairo in September called on
all member countries to ignore the U.N. air embargo on Libya in a bid to
ease hardships on its people.
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