Al-Qadhafi walks out of Arab summit

[Dover]

Al-Qadhafi walks out of Arab summit


Saturday 22 May 2004

Al-Qadhafi is famous for creating drama at international meetings


Libya has withdrawn from an Arab summit in Tunis in protest against the agenda and the Arab League's failure to take up a proposal for a single Israeli-Palestinian state.

"Unfortunately Libya is forced to boycott the summit because it does not agree to the agenda of the Arab governments. Libya wants the agenda of the Arab peoples," Muammar al-Qadhafi told a news conference on Saturday after walking out of the summit.

He said he hoped that Libya's basic people's congresses - local councils which theoretically decide Libyan policy - would agree to Libyan withdrawal from the Arab League.

..snip..

Al-Qadhafi criticised the secretariat of the Arab League for shelving his plan, known as a "white paper", to revive a one-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian solution.

The one state, from the Mediterranean to the River Jordan, would includes Israelis and Palestinians as equal. Most Arab states, along with the international community, favour separate Israeli and Palestinian states living in peace side by side.
Al-Qadhafi said: "I stand beside the Arab peoples, not with the Arab governments." ...CONT'D >


http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/EE6DFEC2-CD8D-496D-B327-FB7CB8E18EA8.htm

[htuttle]

1. I've always imagined that Qadhafi has a theme song that plays...

...whenever he enters or leaves a room with his Robert Palmer Girl bodyguards.

Lately, I've been puzzled as to what his plans are. I currently agree with his one-state plan as the best solution at this point, but I don't know how clear his motives are. He could be working for MI-6 now for all I know (or making the British THINK he's working with them, leading to some other part of his plan later, etc...).

I find him kind of complicated, but I also think he fosters that impression on purpose.

[Taverner]

3. "Lately, I've been puzzled as to what his plans are."

Well, he's an old school soviet style socialist. So naturally he favors the whole 'one world' solution...

[maddezmom]

2. NYT lin:

Colonel Qaddafi, who has repeatedly called for dismantling the 22-member Arab League and had to be coaxed by other leaders to attend, announced he was withdrawing because he believed the entire agenda was flawed.

"There is one agenda laid out by the Arab people and another by the Arab governments," he said at a news conference after he had changed from the brown robe he was wearing when he marched out of the opening session into a white blazer festooned with military ribbons.

Colonel Qaddafi's outbursts, while erratic, often reflect popular sentiment, and those on Saturday mirrored some of the feeling on the street toward the current state of chaos in the Arab world, especially what many see as a lack of greater government support for the Iraqi people who are battling occupation.

While conceding that there was little the Arab governments could do about the American and British occupation forces in Iraq, he said they could collectively threaten smaller countries like Italy, Australia and Bulgaria that have sent troops.

~snip~
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/23/international/23arab.html

[Just Me]

6. Really, now. He's advocating collectively threatening the smaller

countries since nothing else can be done against the US and British forces?

Wow. He is complicated.

Isn't he now the Busholini's best friend? Yet, he's dishing out such anti-American strategies?

Weird.

I'll bet our "intelligence sources" will soon find that he is conspiring with some enemy.

Whoooosh!!!!

[thebigidea]

4. well, he's an ENTERTAINING fop at the very least

[Jacobin]

5. but but but, I thought Smirky claimed to have tamed him

:eyes:

[maddezmom]

7. watching the summit on VOA

thru CSPAN...wonder if they'll show him storming out. :)