TRIPOLI: AL-QADHDHAFI 10 APR PRESS CONFERENCE

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• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 1, 2012
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: April 11, 1985
• Content Type: CABLE

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((TEXT)) ((QUESTION)) BROTHER LEADER AS A LEADER OF THE ARAB
REVOLUTION IS IT NOW AMONG YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES TO ASSUME THE
LEADERSHIP OF THE REVOLUTIONARY FORCES GROUPED UNDER THE BANNER OF
THE PAN-ARAB COMMAND?
((AL-OADHDHAFI))) YES, THE PAN-ARAB COMMAND IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE
REVOLUTIONARY FORCES IN THE ARAB WORLD AND THIS IS A COLLECTIVE
LEADERSHIP.
((QUESTION)) BROTHER LEADER, SANA CORRESPONDENT: IT IS KNOWN THAT
THE LIBYAN JAMAHIRIYAH IS THE BASTION OF ARAB LIBERATION IN THE ARAB
MAGHREB AND THAT SYRIA IS THE BASTION OF STEADFASTNESS AND
CONFRONTATION IN THE ARAB EAST. A FOUR-SIDED ARAB SUMMIT CONFERENCE
WHICH WILL BE HELD IN DAMASCUS, EARLY NEXT MONTH. TO WHAT EXTENT
DO YOU EXPECT THIS SUMMIT TO CONTRIBUTE TO THE CONFRONTATION OF THE
AXIS OF REACTIONARY CONSPIRACY LED BY 'ARAFAT AND HUSAYN, ESPECIALLY
AS THEY AHVE ANNOUNCED THAT DIRECT TALKS BETWEEN THE 'ARAFAT-JORDAN
DELEGATION AND ISRAEL WILL BEGIN IN THE COMING MONTHS. AT THE SAME
TIME, TO WHAT EXTENT DO YOU EXPECT THIS FOUR-SIDED SUMMIT TO PLAY A
ROLE IN ESTABLISHING ARAB UNITY AND IN CARRYING OUT THE SLOGAN,
LIBERATION FROM THE SOUTH TO THE SOUTH, WHICH HAS LATELY BEEN RAISED
IN THE LIBYAN JAMAHIRIYAH?
((AL-QADHDHAFI)) THE FOUR-SIDED MEETING, IRRESPECTIVE OF WHERE
AND WHEN IT IS HELD, IS A BASIS FOR ACHIEVING UNITY AMONG THESE
FOUR COUNTRIES. UNITY AND WHAT IT WILL ACHIEVE NEEDS NO DEFINITION.
IT IS IN ITSELF A DECISIVE AND HISTORIC RESPONSE TO HOSTILE PLANS,
WHETHER THOSE OF 'ARAFAT, HUSAYN, AMERICA, OR OTHERS.
((QUESTION)) ARE THERE CONDITIONS IN WHICH LIBYAN FORCES MIGHT
BE FORCED TO CROSS LONGITUDE 16 IN THE SOUTH?
((AL-QADHDHAFI)) WE DO NOT RECOGNIZE ANY LONGITUDE OR LATITUDE,
16 OR 60. WHO MADE THIS LINE AND WHO HAS THE RIGHT TO DRAW UP THESE
LINES IN CHAD? AT ANY RATE, LIBYA HAS NO FORCES IN CHAD, BUT IF
FOREIGN FORCES INTERVENE THERE LIBYA WILL PAY NO HEED TO LONGITUDE
OR LATITUDES.
((QUESTION)) LEADER, IT IS SUGGESTED IN SOME QUARTERS THAT YOU HAD
AN INFLUENCE IN THE AFFIARS IN SUDAN. IS THIS TRUE AND IF SO, WHAT
KIND OF INFLUENCE?
((AL-QADHDHAFI, IN ENGLISH)) ALL THE LIBYANS AND SUDANESE ARE
BROTHERS AND ((WORDS INDISTINCT)) CONSIDERED ONE LAND, ONE COUNTRY,
ONE PEOPLE, ONE NATION. AS SUCH, WE DEPEND ON EACH OTHER AND WE
SUPPORT EACH OTHER. AND THE LIBERATION OF SUDAN AND THE LIBERTY OF
SUDAN AND THE LIBERATION OF PEOPLES WHO LIVE IN THE OTHER ARAB
COUNTRIES ARE ONE. WE NEED THEM AND THEY NEED US. WE SUPPORT THEM
AS THEY SUPPORT US. THEY ARE ARABS, THEY ARE ONE PEOPLE. WE
REJECTED TO SAY IT IS INTERVENTION IN THE OTHERS' AFFAIRS, BETWEEN
ARABS. OUR INTERNAL AFFAIRS IS ONE AND THE SUDANESE ARE ARAB
BROTHERS. WE LOVE THEM AND SUPPORT THEM.
((QUESTION)) IN THE NAME OF GOD, THE MERCIFUL, THE COMPASSIONATE,
((WORD INDISTINCT)) I READ YOU HAD A MEETING WITH B. KREISKY
((FORMER AUSTRIAN CHANCELLOR -- FBIS)) YESTERDAY. WOULD YOU PLEASE
TELL US WHAT YOU TALKED ABOUT AND IF ANYTHING CONCRETE WAS DECIDED?
THANKS YOU.
((AL-QADHDHAFI)) HE VISITED SEVERAL COUNTRIES, SUCH AS AMERICA,
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INDIA, AND THE GULF. WE TALKED FOR 2 HOURS ABOUT INTERNATIONAL
PROBLEMS. WE SHARE CONCERN FOR WORLD PEACE. WE ARE DEEPLY CONCERNED
OVER WORLD PEACE, ESPECIALLY OVER THE MORAL DETERIORATION OF THE
GULF WAR WHICH HAS TURNED INTO A WAR AGAINST CIVILIANS, A WAR OF
ATROCITIES AGAINST CITIZENS. THIS UGLY DETERIORATION IS
UNACCEPTABLE TO US. THE WORLD SHOULD DO ALL IT CAN TO HALT THE WAR
OF THE CITIES.
((QUESTION)) ((WORD INDISTINCT)) FROM THE SPANISH NEWS AGENCY:
YOU HAVE ACHIEVED UNITY WITH MOROCCO. ARE YOU PREPARED TO OFFER
MILITARY SUPPORT TO MOROCCO IN CASE OF PROBLEMS WITH SPAIN OVER
CEUTA AND MELILLA?
((AL-QADHDHAFI)) FIRST, IT IS UNLIKELY THAT THERE WILL BE A WAR
OVER CEUTA AND MELILLA. BUT NATURALLY WE ABCK MOROCCO. CEUTA AND
MELILLA ARE TWO ARAB CITIES AND THERE IS NO JUSTIFICATION FOR
KEEPING THEM THIS LONG. AND I DO NOT THINK THAT SPAIN IS READY
TO GO TO WAR FOR THE SAKE OF ARAB CITIES.
((QUESTION)) ((WORD INDISTINCT)) FROM MOROCCO: YOUR EXCELLENCY,
COLONEL, A CONFERENCE ((WORD INDISTINCT)) WAS HELD RECENTLY IN THE
CAPITAL OF THE ARAB-AFRICAN UNION ((WORD INDISTINCT)) AND
IT ADOPTED A NUMBER OF RESOLUTIONS, SOME OF WHICH WERE MADE PUBLIC
WHILE OTHERS REMAINED (?IN TRUST WITH THE LEADERSHIP). THE
CONFERENCE WAS DOMINATED BY THE SPIRIT OF OUJDA -- THAT AGREEMENT
WHICH CAUSED A GREAT CONTROVERSY IN THE WORLD AND TRIBAL
REACTIONS IN ARAB AND AFRICAN CAPITALS. WHAT WERE THE FEELINGS OF
THE REVOLUTIONARY GROUPS WHICH CONSTITUTE THE GENERAL COMMAND
REFERRED TO CONSIDERING THAT THE ARAB LIBYAN-MOROCCAN UNITY IS ONE
OF THE MOST IMPORTANT TIES IN OUR MODERN TIMES. SECOND QUESTION:
THE BELIEF PREVAILED FOLLOWING THE EVENTS WHICH BROUGHT DOWN
NUMAYRI'S REGIME ON 6 APRIL, THE SWEEPING AWAY OF THE RULING MILITARY
MACHINE BY THE POPULAR MASSES IN THE SUDAN, THAT U.S. IMPERIALISM
MIGHT RESORT TO MOVING ITS ((WORD INDISTINCT)) TACTICS TO ABSORB
THE ANGER OF THE MASSES BY MEANS OF ((WORDS INDISTINCT)). WHAT IS
THE ATTITUDE OF GENERAL SIWAR AL-DHAHAB TOWARD THIS GAME?
((AL-QADHDHAFI)) FIRST, DURING THE MEETING OF THE PAN-ARAB
COMMAND OF THE REVOLUTIONARY FORCES NO CERTAIN REGIONAL OR LOCAL
PROBLEMS WERE DISCUSSED, RATHER THE ISSUES OF LIBERATION AND UNITY
AT THE LEVEL OF THE ARAB HOMELAND WERE RAISED. BUT YOU KNOW THAT
SOME ARAB GROUPS HAVE RESERVATIONS CONCERNING THE ARAB-MOROCCAN
UNITY ((AS HEARD)). THEIR RESERVATIONS CONCERN MOROCCO. WE REPLIED
TO THOSE RESERVATIONS, THESE QUESTIONS. YOU KNOW SOME ARAB (?FORCES)
ANNOUNCED THEIR STANDS FOLLOWING OUJDA AND THEY HAVE RESERVATIONS.
THERE IS NOTHING NEW IN THIS RESPECT. THOSE WHO HAD RESERVATIONS
CONTINUE TO RAISE THEM.
((WORDS INDISTINCT)) EXAMPLE CREATED BY NUMAYRI ALSO HAS A
LESSON IN IT. I DO NOT THINK THAT THERE IS ANYBODY IN OR OUTSIDE
THE SUDAN WHO STILL TRUSTS AMERICA AND ITS ALLIANCES. IT HAS
BECOME CLEAR THAT THE PEOPLES' WILL IS STRONGER THAN THE WILL OF
AMERICA.
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