Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Gaddafi rejects Mediterranean bloc
Muammar Gaddafi, the Libyan leader, has opposed the proposal of a so-called Mediterranean Union.
Gaddafi said at a mini-summit of North African and Syrian leaders on Tuesday that it would harm efforts to achieve Arab and African unity.
"We are member states of the Arab League and also the African Union and we will not take any chances with damaging Arab or African Unity," he said.
"Our European partners need to understand that. We are in favour of partnership projects but they must take account of these red lines."
"If Europe wants to co-operate with us, let them do so through the Arab League or the African Union ... we will not accept that they deal only with a small group."
Gaddafi said that he believed the Mediterranean Union proposal was just another "passing fad" which would make no more progress than the so-called Euro-Mediterranean partnership process launched in Barcelona in 1995. (Al Jazeera)
Labels: Libya, Mediterranean Bloc
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