AL-QADHDHAFI URGES WOMEN TO JOIN MILITARY SCHOOLS

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 31, 2012
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• Publication Date: May 8, 1982
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ALGERIA
PRESIDENT APPOINTS NEW FOREIGN AFFAIRS MINISTER
LD081914 Algiers Domestic Service in Arabic 1900 GMT 8 May 82
[Text] The presidency has issued the following statement: President Chadli Bendjedid,
secretary general of the party, has appointed Brother Ahmed Talib al-Ibrahimi, member
of the FLN Central Committee, as foreign affairs minister to succeed the late Mohamed
Ben Yahia, martyred while performing his sacred task in the service of the homeland and
the revolution.
LIBYA
AL-QADHDHAFI URGES WOMEN TO JOIN MILITARY SCHOOLS
LD090546 Tripoli Voice of Arab Homeland in Arabic 2315 GMT 8 May 82
[Text] Yesterday morning via closed circuit television, the leader met female general
secondary school students and female students of private and public teachers institutes,
urging them to join military secondary schools and military colleges for training in
various weaponry.
During this meeting, the leader began his speech by stressing the success of the general
military training. He said general military training has become a living reality. We
have directed all our efforts toward its success and have created a comprehensive mobi-
lization to confront all dangers that might threaten our homes, our families, our honor
and our freedom. There is no way out of realizing this mobilization.
He added that weapons training has become a reality despite some opposing voices at the
outset. However, these voices were quieted and now girls carry arms. The masses also
have begun to prepare themselves to meet all eventualities. The brother leader explained
there is no longer any excuse, now that girls in these stages have become militarized,
for girls not to enter military colleges to become officers in the armed forces. The
leader stressed in his speech the need for female students to join various military colleges,
to be graduated as officers and to realize progress in the armed forces. He urged guard-
ians of female students to discard obsolete and reactionary thinking and to look realisti-
cally toward the future by constantly encouraging their daughters to join various military
colleges. He stressed that the graduation of girls as officers should be an established
fact, just like wearing military uniforms and training to carry arms.
The leader drew the attention of the guardians to the need to participate in this work to
enable their daughters to train and participate in molding life in this society. He
explained that any attempt to prevent female students from doing so will have negative
results. He stressed that the Libyan people have always been the first to formulate
attitudes and to start positive initiatives on every occasion. But for girls students
with their general certificate of education and other private and public school certi-
ficates not to join military colleges will have a negative aspect. We are supposed to
have tens of officers in various military colleges instead of just the land forces military
college.
The brother leader dismissed allegations that there is no need for girls to join these
colleges because it is sufficient that boys join the various military colleges. He said
these are obsolete reactionary allegations, because we do not differentiate between men
and women. He said the Zionist enemy, through its barbarous attacks in the West Bank,
does not discriminate between men and women, as the Zionist forces of occupation are
killing Arab boys, girls, men and women, and their bullets do not differentiate between
male and female.
The brother leader said the person who has no weapon or no weapons training experience
is going to be an easy victim. The trained person will be able to repel the evil.of the
enemy. He pointed out.that we are preparing our forces for a battle that might be imposed
on us and that might destroy our achieveiffsnts . The enemy is on the offensive and, there-
fore, there is no way out of resisting him.
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I N T E R- A F R I C A N A F F A I R S P 1
AUDU: LIB ASSURES ALL CAN ATTEND OAU SUMMIT
AB091214 Paris FP in English 1139 GMT 9 May 82
[Text] Lagos, 9 M (AFP) -- Libya has given guarantees that all members of the Organization
of African Unity,. i cluding Egypt, can attend the next OAU summit in Tripoli in August,
Nigerian Foreign Mini ter Ishaya Audu said here today.
Mr Audu said Nigeria wo ld not take part in a boycott 6f the summit threatened by some
countries opposed to the olicies of Libyan leader Mu'ammar al-Qadhdhafi. Colonel al-Qadhdhafi
will become OAU chairman or the next year following the conference.
Libya had complied with the onditions Lagos had laid down for attending the summit, Mr Audu
said. It had cooperated with he OAU over Chad by withdrawing its troops and agreed not to
bar any country from coming to ripoli, and for the moment he saw no reason why Nigeria
Mr Audu was speaking after lengthy alks at the airport here with visiting Kenyan Foreign
Minister Robert Ouko on "problems co fronting Africa and the OAU."
Mr Ouko, who had delivered a message f om Oau Chairman Daniel arap Moi, the president of
Kenya, to Nigerian President Shehu Shag i, said the OAU peacekeeping force in Chad will
leave on June 30 when its mandate expires if new sources of financing it were not found
Mr Ouko, who was going on today to Sierra Le ne and later to Guinea, said he could not see
how the OAU body could maintain that force, w ich consists of contingents from Nigeria,
Senegal and Zaire, if United Nations funds cur ently paying for it were not topped up.
/ Mr Ouko made it clear that his trips, along with similar ones by a number of other African
foreign ministers, were connected with the OAU's urrent problems, especially the split
caused by the admission of the self-proclaimed Sah ran Democratic Arab Republic (SDAR).
On this subject Mr Audu said that Nigeria, which has not recognized the SDAR, was neither
for nor against it becoming an OAU member. Lagos wan ed to work for African unity above
On Namibia both ministers reaffirmed OAU support for the\ Southwest African People's Organi-
zation (SWAPO) and Mr Ouko said Namibian independence by the end of this year was not impos-
OAU CHAIRMAN EMPHASIZES NEUTRALITY ON SAHARA
NC072256 Paris AFP in.English 2059 GMT 7 May 82
[Text] Lagos, 7 May -- Organisation of African Unity Chairman Da iel arap Moi is committed
to maintaining neutrality on the question of admitting the self -p claimed Sahran Arab
Democratic Republic to the OAU, Kenyan Foreign Minister Robert Ouko\said here.
Mr Ouko arrived in Lagos yesterday to deliver a special message from MMoi, the president
of Kenya, to Nigerian President Shehu Shagari. The contents of the mess 4e were not dis-
Saharan issue be resolved before the next OAU summit in Tripoli.
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