QUOTATIONS FROM QADHDHAFI: AN UPDATE

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FB 83-10010
Quotations From Qadhdhafi: An Update
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This report is based exclusively on material carried in
foreign broadcast and press media. It is published by FBIS without
coordination with other U.S. Government components.
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AN UPDATE
Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
I. Selected Quotations From Qadhdhafi on Terrorism
Definition of Terrorism . . . ? . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Libyan Opposition, Liquidation of Regime Opponents . . . 2
Overthrow of Moderate Arab Regimes . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Terrorist, "Liberation" Groups . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Palestinians, Lebanese Left . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
European Terrorist Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Namibia, South Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Nicaragua . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Somali Opposition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Western Sahara . . . . . . . ... . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Use of Nuclear Power, Need To Destroy Israeli Reactor . 12
II. Selected Quotations From Qadhdhafi on Relations With
the Soviet Union . . . . . . ... . . . . . . . . . . . 13
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FOREWORD
This report assembles excerpts from speeches and interviews by
Libyan leader Mu'ammar al-Qadhdhafi on the subjects of terrorism
and Libyan-Soviet relations. It updates two earlier FBIS reports
on these topics: Special Memorandum FB 81-10050 of 9 December
1981, "Quotations From Qadhdhafi on Terrorism," and Special
Memorandum FB 81-10051 of 16 December'1981, "Quotations From
Qadhdhafi on Relations With the Soviet Union."
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I. SELECTED QUOTATIONS FROM QADHDHAFI ON TERRORISM
DEFINITION OF TERRORISM
Report on French television interview, Tripoli JAMAHIRIYAH NEWS
AGENCY (JANA), 8 February 1983
Replying to a question on international terrorism and terrorist
organizations, the leader of the revolution stressed that
imperialism and Zionism are trying, through a campaign of psy-
chological terror they are waging against the Arab nation and
the peoples of the Third World, to conceal the real terrorism
they constantly practice. in order to distract world attention
and to allege that the Arab nations' and the peoples struggling
for freedom are the ones engaged in international terrorism. . . .
He added: We openly accuse the West of engaging in historic
terrorism against us, which-may pave the way for afresh Crusade
campaign. From now on we shall begin to reply to this campaign
because we are a suppressed people and we are under the terror-
ism of military threats, psychological war, and economic siege.
The armies of Zionism and imperialism are destroying our homes
and plundering our resources--and they portray us as guilty. . . .
We have become the victims of international terrorism: Zionist
terrorism against the Arabs, American terrorism against the Arabs
and primarily the small Libyan people, the terrorism of imperi-
alist fleets that threaten peaceful, peoples . . The truth is
that terrorism is the destruction of Lebanese towns and the
burning down of Beirut with American naval force, air force,
aircraft, and rockets; and also the threat by the U.S. 6th Fleet
to the Gulf of Sidra and to Libyan territorial waters, Libyan
airspace, and the small Libyan people. This is true terrorism;
any other interpretation of terrorism is but lies and humbug
and misleading world public opinion.
Interview, Paris LE MATIN, 24 January 1983
In our view, if there is an example of terrorism on an inter-
national scale, it is the United States with its forces
deployed throughout the world, its fleet in the Mediterranean,
its repeated aggressions against people who want to liberate
themselves from the imperialist hold in Latin America, in the
Caribbean, and in Vietnam. We are 'victims of U.S. imperialism--
remember the Gulf of Sidra affair--as the Arabs are victims of
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U.S.-armed Zionist terrorism. The real terrorism-.today is
Zionism, and its machinations against the Lebanese, Syrian, and
Palestinian peoples.. What are the massacres perpetrated-in
Sabra.and-Shatila if not terrorism? ,.. _ _
Report on speech at Vienna dinner banquet,-Tripoli JANA, 12March 1982
.Analysts..agree with me that the U.S. policy is characterized by
terrorism. I find.it unfortunate that a great country should
pursue this disgraceful policy in this age. I condemn terrorism
-absolutely because-my country is the victim of.U.S.:.terror-
ism . . .
LIBYAN OPPOSITION, LIQUIDATION OF REGIME OPPONENTS
Report on French television-interview, Tripoli JANA, 8 February 1983
[A1-Qadhdhafi] said he believes that. the; Libyan.police-have
complained-that the authorities in France, Italy, and-other
European countries protected anti-Libyan activists, terrorists,
and subversive secret action calling for the use 'of arms and
violence and for, planning the assassination of Libyan
people. . . . I hope these.states and these authorities will not
persist in this anti-Libyan action,, because if they:do, the
Libyan people, through-.the People's?Congresses, will one day
have to resort to the same treatment. Consequently, the Libyan
people will take any action to oppose these regimes as long as
these regimes protect and assist any actions against the Libyan
people.
Report on speech, Tripoli-Voice.of the Arab Homeland, 20.;December 1982
The brother leader confirmed that the Great 1 September [Libyan]
Revolution is a strong revolution and fears no-one. Its.arm is
long and must eliminate those who encroach upon it anywhere, and
it confronts the-United States and all misguided dogs.':
Report on speech to Basic People's Congress,=,Tripoli-,JANA,
Colonel al-Qadhdhafi said: The gangs and scum of treachery.'and
subservience to America, Israel, and Arab reaction should be
exposed. Such people are wanted for justice and for giving
Libya a bad reputation because of what they smuggled abroad. . . .
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Such people are charged with high'treason . . . . They-should be
killed not because they constitute any danger, but because of
their high treason. He said: It is the Libyan people's
responsibility to liquidate this scum-that is distorting Libya's
image. The decision to liquidate them or not, and whether or
not they return, should be decided by-the-Libyan people before
the peoples of the world, because what will happen afterward
expresses the people's will. If the people decide to liquidate
their enemy, the people cannot be described as terrorist.
Report on speech-to rally celebrating anniversary of final expulsion
of Italians, Tripoli JANA, 8 October 1982
The revolution's leader showed disdain for the remnants of the
bygone regime who have fled abroad and who talk in the name of
Libya and the so-called Libyan front and Libyan opposition.
He said: These stray dogs composed of ex-premiers who are
traitors and hirelings, what did they do when they earlier
headed governments and-when Libya was an Italian and English
colony? . He-added: Did anyone of-them resign when the
five American and British bases were established on Libyan soil?
When the likes of those despicable hireling escapees talk
abroad in the name of-Libya,-they demean the Libyan people
because they sold out Libya. . . He said: There shall be no
mercy for the agents of;America. The escaped hirelings, enemies
of the Libyan people~-shall not-escape from this people.
Colonel Mu'ammar al-Qadhdhafi also pointed in his speech-to
those who committed crimes against the Libyan people, stole
their money, and-then escaped abroad. ?He.said: The Libyan-
people shall recover their fortune from these people and try
them either in absentia-or otherwise. Colonel'al-Qadhdhafi
added that the door to repentance is wide open to all -who want
to return to Libya to live honorably like the rest of the
Libyans.. Those who-link-their fate with the' reactionaries,
Israelis, and Americans should face their fate at the hands
of the Libyan Arab--people.-.- . . 'Those who believe :that
America is able to protect them should know that America will
not protect them, just as it could not protect as-Sadat on
6 October, when he was killed-before=the eyes,of America and
under-the surveillance of- its- satellites, the CIA, and the
Rapid Deployment'Force.
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He said: The Libyan Arab people has the right to self-defense
and to declare war on its enemies inside and outside the
country. The Libyan people is determined to liquidate the
enemies of the revolution inside and outside the country to
consolidate its freedom and defend its gains and achievements.
He added that the task of liquidating the enemies of the revo-
lution, inside and outside the Jamahiriyah [Libya], will not
be confined to the revolutionary committee only, but from now
on will be the duty of any citizen who has faith in his revo-
lution and its achievements. The revolution's leader asserted
that the Libyans will pursue their escaped enemies, who will
be liquidated at any time or place.
Report on speech marking anniversary of proclamation of people'.s
authority, Tripoli JANA, 2 March 1983
The revolution's leader stressed: We shall agitate for .
revolution, unity, building of socialism, and removal of the
borders between the people of the one Arab nation. He added:
We shall continue the work of destroying the crowns and
palaces of the agent secessionist regionalists. . . . He
pointed out: Here we are today after the threat [the U.S.
response to the attempted Libyan subversion in Sudan],
challenging them, defying them, and declaring our unwavering
and permanent determination to realize Arab unity, to abolish
the borders, and to overthrow the agents.
Report on speech at Tripoli conference of Arab opposition and armed
struggle movements, Tripoli JANA, 2 February 1983
Should there be any secret revolutionary force in the Arab
world, we should not abandon it as we, day and night, call for
wider revolutionary opposition in the Arab world. The revo-
lutionary opposition that cannot go out into the street
should direct its attention to underground . action so that the
ground will move from underneath the hostile Arab force. Our
meeting here with the official and legal opposition does not
mean we have abandoned the secret Arab revolutionary force and
no one can stop any meeting or arrangement with it.
And when you return to your home countries, we should start to
hear of strikes, demonstrations, sit-ins, rebellion, civilian
mutiny, and the widening of the base of opposition. I would
then like to hear that workers and students have staged strikes,
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soldiers have rebelled, ports and airports have closed, palaces
have burned down, feudal communities have been destroyed, and
corrupt and treasonous heads have fallen. I would like this to
happen.
Speech on revolution anniversary, Tripoli Domestic Service,
1 September 1982
The revolutionary committees movement will continue to expand
and spread outside Libyan borders to include the Arab home-
land. Today we announce that-revolutionary committees--openly
and secretly--exist in Sudan, the Arabian Peninsula, Lebanon,
Jordan, and Morocco.
Where are those who failed to convene an urgent Arab summit to
face the Beirut battle, who failed to send their forces to
Syria and to Lebanon, who failed to lift the siege of Beirut,
who failed to come to the rescue of the Palestinian resistance?
They have no justification at all for remaining in power even
one more day. They should disappear. It would be better for
them to be buried in the earth than to be on the surface. These
cowards who are bowing their heads before the few Israelis--
curses on them and on those cowards''who have aircraft and tanks
and oil'but sit and watch the Palestinian resistance being
slaughtered, the Lebanese people being killed and the Lebanese
towns being burned one after the other.
Statement by al-Qadhdhafi on the occasion of -a Moslem feast, Tripoli
Voice of the Arab Homeland, 21 May 1982
I also call for placing holy Mecca and al-Madinah . . . under
the Islamic administration of all Islamic nations. It is not
permissible for the house of God to remain under the political
control of any one state. . . . Therefore, we must earnestly
start action right now to remove the Saudis' political domina-
tion from the sacred house of God, even if this is to be
accomplished byway of jihad [holy war].
Speech to General People's Congress, Tripoli Domestic Service,
3 March 1982
Saudi Arabia must be liberated because it.is under the U.S. and
Zionist flags and U.S. and Jewish planes fly over it. It is
under the control of the Jews and Christians. . . . The libera-
tion of Saudi Arabia presently is more important than the
performance of the pilgrimage. . . . The right thing is insti-
gation of revolution to liberate the Arab oil from the grip of
reaction and from the grip of the United States.
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Report on speech during visit'to Algeria, Tripoli Voice of'the Arab
Homeland, 21 January 1982
The brother leader said that the awareness of the Arab masses
should-be awakened-so that it.. . removes from its path. the
falsehood and humbug of regimes that every-day-prove their
inability to confront danger and that:prevent the Arab masses
from.fighting the enemy; they are the number one enemy, before
Israel and the United States. In view of this, it. is inevit-
able that there be a popular-movement that.stands-up to.the
danger.; the Arab masses can achieve this only by.removing these
regimes; it. is high time-we took the masks.. off the ugly faces
of these regimes. .
TERRORIST, "LIBERATION" GROUPS
Text of message from al-Qadhdhafi to PDRY Chairman 'Ali Nasir
Muhammad in reply to a cable of support, Aden Domestic Service,
9 March 1983
.The Jamahiriyah.will continue to support..the national'.libera-
tion movements and to fight U.S.,.imperialism . . . Any attempt
to pressure us and to force us to change our anticolonialism,
anti-U.S. imperialism policy, and. our support. of .worldwide
liberation-movements will be defeated.
Report on-French television interview, Tripoli JANA-, 8 February 1983
In his reply to a question about the Jamahiriyah's being
charged with terrorism, the brother--leader. of the revolution-
explained that the Jamahiriyah has repeatedly.condemnedall-.,
terrorist acts carried out by international terrorist organi-
zations. He pointed out that terrorism carried.out'_by these
organizations is limited when compared with the big inter-
.national terrorism carried out. by imperialism-and Zionism. . . .
The leader pointed out- *that,he is against any act of sabotage,
or explosions, or assassination of innocent-people: II condemn
all these acts,, and'our stand regarding them.has,always been
clear. Colonal Mu'ammar al-.Qadhdhafi.declared that the-Libyan
police had no objection to cooperating with Interpol in com-
bating terrorism. . . . .
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Interview,'Paris LE MATIN., 24 January 1983..
There is another aspect of the question--that of the clandestine
'terrorist organizations such-as those exis.ting,in Germany.,and
Italy. -It is not for me to judge those'.movements'psychological,
social,-or--political.-motives. I 'think' it would. be necessary to
make a more detailed analysis~of how:they arose, how. German
society produced the Baader-Meinhof group, how Italian society
was. able to. produce the?.Red.Brigades..Nonetheless I com-
pletely condemn the_methods.used by;those organizations--the
abductions, murders, 'and-massacres:,... ,We condemn organiza-
tions that .'indulge.-in-terrorism, 'end, we cannot have any relations
with them. They have nothing to do with national.. liberation
movements. The Namibian and Palestinian peoples' struggles are
legitimate and just causes that we back and support.
Interview, Rome LA REPUBBLICA, 14 July'1982
[Question].?In'the:past, in.:Europe and' in. Italy, there%have.been
several reasons to believe that substantial backing for. Western
terrorism has come directly from the Arab countries and from
Palestinian. organizations. As far: as-? you` are''concerned,, what do
you, have to say in this.'regard?' 1.
[Answer] I have never promoted aril such'organization. I believe
these are revolutionary:movements'ithat manage-'themselves ?
autonomously. Nevertheless, you Westerners have regarded us as
terrorists, and.:so.you have.encircled.us''economically'by.placing
a tough embargo on us .
Speech to .an.ti-imperialism..-conference yin. Tripoli,' Tripoli Voice of
the Arab Homeland.,-. 15: June- 1;982-._
The. Libyan people will.-strive, from this symposium, to-.incite
the various--oppressed peoples. and' ,.the. li'beration--movements' to
unify.their . efforts-.in'. one fight,- against -the. foe of these
peoples and-..-forces .:. .Libya; 'which is the international home
of,these peoples -and-movements;,will'.strive to,achieve"the aims
of .. : this. symposium,,..'namely', to_? ensure- the unification of
.~ the struggle of these peoples -and, !organization-is ,and to enhance
and.step up the'effectiveness"of)this struggle 'stage after
stage until final victory. .
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Interview, Vienna Domestic Television Service, 12 March 1982
[Opening statement by al-Qadhdhafi] They told you I am a
terrorist, and that my country is playing a destructive role
-in international policy. I tell you now it is not true,
absolutely. . . I wish peace for all peoples in the world,
and'I hope the day comes when we can get rid of terrorism
and imperialism and racism in the world.
Palestinians, Lebanese Left
Report on speech at Tripoli conference of Arab opposition and armed
struggle movements, Tripoli JANA, 2 February 1983
Libya has taken up its role in arming and training the
Palestinian and Lebanese resistance. And when the Zionist
invasion of southern Lebanon started, an airlift between
Libya and the Palestinian resistance and the Lebanese National
Movement was set up to consolidate their steadfastness in
addition to financial support, and Libyan volunteers were
allowed to fight alongside the Palestinian-Lebanese resistance.
Speech to OAU Foreign Ministers Meeting in Tripoli, Tripoli Voice
of the Arab Homeland, 16 November 1982
It is our duty as Africans to bolster the struggle of the Arab
inhabitants of Palestine and not to recognize their enemy . . . .
Report on speech in Moscow on occasion of Libyan revolution anni-
versary, Moscow TASS, 2 September 1982
Mu'ammar al-Qadhdhafi again reaffirmed Libya's support for the
Palestinian resistance movement by all means at its disposal.
Speech on revolution anniversary, Tripoli Domestic Service,
1 September 1982
We informed the Palestinian resistance while it was inside
Beirut that we were ready and prepared . . . to give it what-
ever it wanted--weapons,"funds, men and regular forces--I told
them that Libya was prepared to supply them.
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Text of cable from al-Qadhdhafi. to Palestinian leaders under siege
in Beirut, Tripoli Voice of the Arab Homeland, 3. July 1982
I advise you to commit suicide rather than to accept dis-
grace. . . . Your blood is the fuel of the revolution which
has become inevitable from the sea to the Gulf.
Libya places all its resources at the disposal of Syria and
the [Palestinian] resistance. Immortality to the martyrs
of the Palestinian people and the Muslims of Lebanon.
Interview, Vienna Domestic Television Service, 12 March 1982
[Opening statement by al-Qadhdhafi] They said . . . we
support terrorism because we support the Palestinians. It
is true we support the Palestinians because they have a
just cause.
European Terrorist Groups.
Report on French television interview, Tripoli JANA, 8 February 1983
In general, terrorist acts committed by the Red Brigades
organization and those like it in Germany are small compared
with the extensive Zionist terrorism and American terrorism.
The brother leader explained that the Red Brigades organi-
zation and the West German Baader-Meinhof organization need
psychoanalysis to discover the social, political, and
psychological reasons for their emergence. He pointed out
that the emergence of these two organizations indicates the
existence of a fault in Italian and German society and that
the treatment of this terrorist phenomenon requires the treat-
ment of the conditions which led to their emergence. He
stressed that it would be best for the members of these
organizations to come out into the light, to abandon violence,
and to practice opposition in a Jamahiri manner.
Interview, Vienna Domestic Television Service, 12 March 1982
[Opening statement by al-Qadhdhafi] They told you I support
the terrorist groups in West Europe, like the Red Brigades
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and so on, which is not true, completely. -. . . I am against
terror and their actions absolutely, and':no one has to support
terrorism.
[Question] A couple of years ago a former-German terrorist
named Joachim Klein wrote in a book that he had been treated
as a statesman while visiting Libya. Is that true?.
[Answer] No, it is, not true. It is.not.true, completely:
[Question] But there has never been a denial by the Libyan
authorities.
[Answer] No. No, we have nothing.to do with such people,.
completely. - .
Namibia, South Africa
Report on speech at Tripoli conference of Arab opposition and armed
struggle movements, Tripoli JANA, 2 February 1983
Money can be given by any rich person to another who is poor,
and. this is also applicable to arms which wegive to any
country, even the SWAPO movement in Namibia and South.Africa.-
Speech to.OAU foreign ministers meeting in Tripoli, Tripoli Voice
of the Arab. Homeland,. 16. November 1982
We now stand by the frontline states in..southern Africa to-
liberate them from apartheid--as Zimbabwe was liberated- ,
from . . . Rhodesia.
Nicaragua
Speech at air force show, Tripoli Domestic Service, 28 March 1983
Today we announce our full support.for Nicaragua, and we
announce this on the air so that America and the world may
hear that all our forces are at the disposal ofthe Sandinista
Front in Nicaragua in the face of the blind American military
threat.
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Text of-message from.al-Qadhdhafi to Nicaraguan Government, Managua
BARRICADA, 12 December 1982? .
We reiterate the complete support. of the people of the Socialist
People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriyah for the heroic people of
Nicaragua in their struggle against imperialism to retain their
independence and freedom.
Somali Opposition
Report on speech to rally celebrating anniversary of final expulsion
of Italians, Tripoli JANA, 8 October 1982
Colonel Mu'ammar al-Qadhdhafi announced that the Jamahiriyah is
fighting America in Somalia and is putting all its capabilities
into the.fierce.fight.betweenthe Democratic Salvation Front and
America. He said that America wants to change this Muslim
African Arab country into an American base . . . . He added that
the Somali people led by the Democratic Salvation Front is-now
waging a war against the Americans in Somalia toward liberating
Somalia before the.U.S. bases are;established. .
Western Sahara
Report on speech at Tripoli conference;of Arab.opposition and armed
struggle movements, Tripoli.JANA, 2 February 1983
Morocco-has no concerns but the.-Sahara. It is not-concerned
with Palestine, Lebanon, Ceuta, or Melilla, which are both part
of Morocco occupied by Spain. Why does not Morocco liberate
them instead of.fighting-the'Saharan.people? Many Arabs blame
us for-siding with?the.Saharan.people, and think we encourage
them to establish a new Arab ministate. But where were those
Arabs when the Sahara was occupied by Spain hundreds of years
ago? . . . In 1972 we established together with the Saharan
youth the Polisario Front. I announced on 11 June 1972 that
if Spain did not.leave the.Saharafthat year, we would launch
a popular liberation war against it. . . . The Polisario was
formed in 1972-and was trained by the Libyans and Palestinians.
We smuggled arms via Algeria, Morocco,, and Mauritania because
these three countries were against, Polisario.
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USE OF NUCLEAR POWER, NEED TO DESTROY ISRAELI REACTOR
Report on speech at Tripoli conference of Arab opposition and armed
struggle movements, Tripoli JANA, 2 February 1983
Why can't the Arab nation destroy the Dimona reactor, which
produces nuclear bombs, in the name of the Arab nation's
security? . . . for it is our right to strike at the Israeli
nuclear reactor. The Iraqi nuclear reactor is subject to
international supervision. Iraq has signed the nuclear non-
proliferation treaty. The reactor is used for peaceful
purposes. On the other hand, the Israeli Dimona reactor is
subject to no supervision of any kind and produces nuclear
bombs. The Israelis have not signed'the nuclear nonprolifera-
tion treaty. It is our right under international law to
destroy this reactor in the name of the Arab nation's security
because the Israeli nuclear reactor is'a dangerous weapon that
will be used against us.' Its destruction would be an act of
self-defense. By destroying the Iraqi nuclear reactor, the
Israelis have provided us with a precedent and excuse.
Interview, Vienna Domestic Television Service, 12 March 1982
[Question] In the event of a conflict, do you personally
think the Arab world would be ready to use a nuclear bomb?
[Answer] They are not. But the other side is ready to use
it. I mean the Israelis. They are now making nuclear bombs
in Dimona, they said.
[Question] There have been reports that'the Pakistanis are
building a nuclear bomb with Libyan money. Is it true?
[Answer] No, it is not true at all. I heard about this
propaganda, part of the bad propaganda to defame us. We
oppose manufacturing nuclear weapons; and we call for
destroying those available nuclear weapons now in the hands
of those nuclear countries. . . . We have to'use nuclear
energy for peaceful purposes and to stop this crime of manu-
facturing nuclear weapons everywhere in the world. We oppose
this solution.
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II. SELECTED QUOTATIONS FROM QADHDHAFI ON RELATIONS WITH THE SOVIET
UNION
Speech at meeting of General People's Congress in Tripoli, Tripoli
Domestic Service, 17 February 1983
Although the USSR is our friend, we would not allow its fleet
to enter the Gulf-of Sidra before it makes a request to enter
and asks for permission for a visit or for a unit to enter our
waters . . . .
The USSR is a friend and even an ally of the Arabs by virtue
of the basic contradiction between, it and the United States,
which sides with the Israelis. Thus it is natural that the
USSR should be with the Arabs. This is in addition to other
common objectives such as the fight against imperialism, the
search for peace and democracy, and so on. Socialism ties us
to the USSR and to the socialist bloc. Their attitude is
good. There are no better stands than those of the USSR and
the socialist bloc toward the Arabg at-the present time
When America declared an embargo against us and stopped buying
our oil, the USSR asked us for payment, but we'had nothing but
oil. The USSR said, well, we will take'the oil,'since you have
nothing but oil. . . . What I want to say is that, despite the
friendship of the USSR and the socialist bloc and the fact that
they are the closest countries to the Arabs now in the world,
they cannot defend you or fight for you in your country. That
is your own responsibility.
Interview, Rome LA REPUBBLICA, 14 July 1982
[Question] You have said in the past that in the event of U.S.
aggression Libya would request the Soviet Union's aid. How-
ever, doesn't it seem to you that in Lebanon's case'the Soviets
have shown very little solidarity with the victims of aggression?
[Answer] I agree with you.
[Question] So in the event of an attack, from whom would Libya
request assistance?
[Answer] That is an entirely different question.
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[Question] In other words, you believe the USSR would hasten
to support Libya?
[Answer] The protagonist of the aggression at this moment is
Israel. In the event of a direct U.S. attack on Libya, the
Soviet Union would not stand by with its hands tied.
[Question At one time, it was said there were many Soviets
in Libya;,are there still so-many-here? " " .....
[Answer] No,"but which Soviets',do you mean?
[Question] Libya- has made' major' arms purchases from the Soviet
Union and many "instructors" came along with these weapons.
Isn't this so?
[Answer] Yes, there are some. here"-as:instructors. . However.,
there are many more Americans in Libya now than Soviets.
Speech to anti-imperialism conference in Tripoli, Tripoli Voice of
the Arab Homeland, 15 June 1982
This symposium, under the banner of these oppressed peoples
and liberation movements from the Arab countries, Latin
America, southern Asia and Africa, Northern Ireland and
the . . . Mediterranean, will conclude'a strategic struggle
alliance with the socialist camp led by the Soviet Union to
make the greatest efforts to inflict defeat . . . on the
common enemy of the Third?World and the peoples of the social-
ist community, namely imperialism, racism and reaction
embodied in the United States itself.
Report on press conference in Vienna, Moscow TASS, 12 March 1982
Answering a question, Mu'ammar al-Qadhdhafi pointed out with
satisfaction the development of friendly relations between
Libya and the Soviet Union as well as the other socialist
countries. He described these relations as very good.
Interview, Vienna Domestic Television Service, 12 March 1982
[Question] The Reagan Administration has repeatedly accused
you of supporting terrorism and imposed an embargo on Libyan
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oil a few days ago. Do you think this may lead to a military
conflict?
[Answer] Yes, they may invade my country and they may invade
other countries. . . . In that case, my country will be a
victim of this American aggression and we [will] have to defend
our country and demand support from others to help us. . . .
[Question] Do you mean the Soviet Union?
[Answer] We hope that there will be no need to demand . . .
help from them. But if it becomes necessary, we will not
hesitate to demand help from them, against America.
Report on statement on arrival in Algeria, Tripoli Domestic Service,
18 January 1982
Asked to comment . . . on the step taken by Syria in establish-
ing close cooperation with the Soviet Union, the brother leader
replied: . . . in the face of the Israeli-American strategic
alliance, I now urge Syria to set up . . . a strategic coopera-
tion [with the Soviet Union].
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