AL-QADHDHAFI SPEAKS ON IMPERIALISM

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President Bendjedid Meets With UAE Official
LD161729 Algiers APS in Arabic 1530 GMT 16 Mar 86
[Text] Algiers, 16 Mar (APS) - The president of the Republic
and general secretary of the FLN party, Chadli Bendjedid,
received today at the Presidency Shaykh Dr Sultan Ibn Muham-
mad al-Qasimi, member of the Supreme Council of the UAE and
the rule of Sharjah. Talks were held in-cameria then were
extended to include the two delegations. Those who took part in
the talks on the Algerian side were Dr Ahmed Talib Ibrahimi,
Political Bureau member and minister of foreign affairs, Larbi
Belkheir, member of the Central Committee and director of the
Presidential Office. And in the guest delegation was Shaykh
Ahmad ibn Sultan al-Qasimi, the minister of state at the federal
government and chairman of the oil department in the Emirate
of Sharjah.
Senegalese Minister Ends Visit to Algiers
LD152228 Algiers APS in Arabic 1735 GMT 15 Mar 86
[Text] Algiers, 15 Mar [APS] - Medoume Fall, Senegalese
minister of the armed forces and special envoy of Senegalese
President Abdou Diouf, left Algiers this morning at the end of a
4-day visit to Algeria.
During his stay, the Senegalese envoy conveyed a message from
President Diouf to President Chadli Bendjedid, president of the
Republic and secretary general of the FLN Party.
Continuing Reportager4nti---onConference
Call for Hitting U.S. Interests
LDI 71903 Tripoli Voice of Greater Arab Homeland
in Arabic 1240 GMT 17 Mar 86
[Excerpts] About 4 and 1/2 years ago - August 1981 to be
precise - more that 240 revolutionary organizations and liber-
ation movements from about 80 countries, fighting for the final
emancipation, held their first conference and decided to choose
the Jamahiriyah as an international center for combatting impe-
rialism, Zionism, racism, reactionism, and fascism.
During the 4 years that followed the first conference, big devel-
opments took place in the confrontation front between the forces
of imperialism, spearheaded by the United States and the inter-
national revolutionary forces, with the Jamahiriyah at their
forefront. The imperialist United States has exhausted all its
forces and means, means of propaganda, intelligence, and war in
a light attempt which was directed against the Jamahiriyah in
its capacity as the beating heart of international liberation move-
ments, and which provides anything in support of the question of
freedom everywhere; and in its capacity as the only Arab country
where the voice of justice is heard and which calls for integral
Arab unity and for armed struggle against Zionism, the imperial-
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ist presence in the region, the liberation of occupied Palestine
from the river to the sea.
The responsibility shouldered by this extraordinary grouping of
international revolutionary organizations and liberation move-
ments, which are assembled today on the soil of the Jamahiriyah
- the international platform for combatting imperialism, Zion-
ism, reactionism, racism, and fascism - is a collosal responsibil-
ity which is epitomized in putting an end to U.S. arrogance. This
can be achieved by hitting U.S. interests everywhere, by
destroying its monopolizing institutions and companies which are
spread world-wide, if the United States tries to carry out its
hostile threat against the Libyan Arab people.
There is no doubt that this big number of international rev-
olutionary movements and liberation organizations, which came
from more than 80 countries to attend their second international
conference, are capable of achieving that if they decide to do so.
The mad U.S. bull, no matter how big and strong it may be, will
succumb when stabs are directed against it from everywhere.
Any stab in the body of this mad bull, even a small one, will have
an impact and effect.
Will the Second International Conference of the International
Center for resisting Imperialism, Zionism, Reactionism Racism,
And Fascism be the beginning of the action to slaughter and bury
the mad U.S. bull? This will be answered during the coming days
by the battle of escalating the counterattack against imperialism,
Zionism, racism, fascism and reactionism.
Al-Qadhdhafi Speaks on Imperialism
LD152000 Tripoli Voice of Greater Arabic Homeland
in Arabic 1813 GMT 15 Mar 86
[Speech by Mu`ammar al adhdhafi t the second conference of
the Internationa Platform for Resisting Imperialism, Zionism,
Racism, Reaction, and Fascism in Tripoli - live on nationwide
radio and television]
[Text] Brothers, I stand before you to extend greetings and to hail
your tenacious will, which executed the great universal and
international action on 28 August 1981. It was on this date that
the people struggling for freedom and the living revolutionary
forces throughout the world and in all its continents decided to
hold a conference of solidarity with the people of the Socialist
People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriyah, who faced the threat of
aggression. Our people are regarded as the vanguard of those who
are struggling for freedom and as the victim of the forces of
aggression who want to devour them first and then go on to
devour other small nations struggling for freedom.
The event which took place in August 1981 has become an
international movement. This movement has institutionalized
the fight for freedom and the collective struggle against the
enemies of freedom - imperialism, fascism, reaction, Zionism,
and racism. This movement of solidarity has caused the imperi-
alists to reconsider their calculations and to retreat from carrying
out an aggression against the Libyan Arab people. As I asserted
at that conference, the Libyan Arab people have displayed a firm
resolve to resist aggression. I told you then that the United States
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would not be able to defeat the Libyan people, although it can
annihilate them. If they die, then they will die standing up and
not kneeling down. We have not violated this pledge. [applause
and shouts in English of "Down, Down, U.S.A."]
However, the Americans regrettably turned to another small
nation which was living in peace and security, and devoured it. I
am referring to the people of Grenada. The occupation of
Grenada was not prevented by the United Nations or the UN
Security Council. There was no justification for such an action.
When the imperialists see a weak people, they assassinate them
and occupy their land. We cannot expect to see official resistance
by governments against such aggression. We also do not expect
justification for this aggression. Imperialist aggression takes
place without justifications.
The occupation of Grenada, the removal of the revolutionary
regime based on the new [word indistinct] movement, and the
assassination of our dear brother and friend martyr Maurice
Bishop [applause] has alarmed all small nations and caused them
to live in terror. This is the result of the official terrorism which
has become an established policy of the United States, Zionism,
and racism. We cannot allow this incident to pass easily. It is an
alarm bell for freedom everywhere and for the security and safety
of peoples within their own borders.
Grenada, a country of 100,000 people, could in no way have
constituted a threat to U.S. imperialism and its 200 million
people. [chanting in English of "Down, Down U.S.A."] This event
might initially be regarded as a victory for imperialism. However,
it actually established a new international movement. All small
nations which are the target of imperialism must unite. They will
feel the (?strength) of unity in an international front against
imperialism and [words indistinct].
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We welcome today the representatives of all Kurdish groups in
the world [applause]; representatives of all the green [word indis-
tinct] movements in the world [applause] representatives of all red
Indian groups [applause] from North America, South America,
and the surrounding islands [applause]; representatives of the
blacks in the United States, Canada, South America, and Britain
[applause]; representatives of fighting revolutionary movements
in the French colonies in the world [applause]; vanguards of the
international revolutionary committees movements from all
parts of the world [applause); and the secretaries of international-
ist basic people's congresses. [applause]
We are sorry to say we have received a report from the 19 April
Movement in Colombia that our friend and comrade Alvaro
Fayad, general commander of the 19 April Movement, was killed
in a battle in the past 2 days. If this report is confirmed, and in
any case, we have to stand up and salute him and we glorify him.
[chants of "Long Live Al-Qadhdhafi"]
This will only make us more determined to continue the collective
struggle and double our efforts in the fight against the fascists in
Latin America - agents of imperialism and agents of the United
states, the enemy of the peoples and the leader of international
terrorism and the barbaric and savage administration which
relies on nothing but the law of terrorism and the law of the
jungle. It is suffering from the madness of force and holds the
rights of man in contempt; it discriminates against human beings
in everything, so much so that it places black citizens on a level
lower than that of mankind.
The fascists will not enjoy contentment and they may be assured
that if they killed our comrade Fayad, the fight against them will
escalate. And we swear that we shall avenge him by killing not
just one individual, but by killing fascism in Latin America.
[applause and shouting of slogans]
Imperialism [chantings of slogans], imperialism may think it has
triumphed in this sinful action. However, it has actually rallied
those people who have sensed that their fate might be the same
as that of the people of Grenada. They feel the need to unite in
an international front to fight imperialism.
The conference held on 28 August 1981 to express solidarity with
the Jamahiriyah's people also began a new chapter in the struggle
of peoples for freedom everywhere in the world. That conference
later turned to this collective work. Your preparatory committee
convened on 21 February 1982 in order to get ready for an
international conference that would undertake a collective
struggle against imperialism, reaction, fascism, racism, and
Zionism. [chantings of slogans]
Indeed, the founding conference was held on 15 June of that same
year, 1982. It included the forces of peoples struggling for
freedom and hostile to imperialism, racism, Zionism, fascism,
and reaction. The second such conference of these forces is being
convened today. New forces have joined us in this collective
struggle and are now attending. These forces were not present at
the first conference. We expect that other forces will attend the
third, fourth, and any subsequent conferences [applause] in order
to broaden the anti-imperialist front.
As you see brothers, imperialism, fascism, Zionism, racism, and
reaction - these enemies will not refrain of their own free will
from assassinating the leaders of the masses and occupying the
territories of others. [patriotic singing]
They will not be deterred willingly by themselves and they are
bent on the physical liquidation of the leaders of the masses. They
are determined to destroy freedom everywhere, to continue the
unjust occupation of others' lands; they are totally reckless with
the rights of small peoples to live on earth in peace and freedom.
Imperialism and the forces allied with it constitute a serious
threat to the lives of all of us as peoples wishing to live in peace
and freedom on earth. Imperialism and its dirty lackey allies are
determined to conquer peoples and to extend imperialist dom-
ination in all continents of the world. The lives of small peoples
are indeed seriously threatened by the danger of imperialism.
Zionism in palestine, racism in south Africa, fascism in Latin
America, and reactionism in Arab countries and other parts of
the world are nothing but the instruments of imperialism.
[shouting of slogans]
With full feeling of responsibility and without excitement, we
now say it is true that small peoples are threatened in their homes
- their existence, and their security by imperialism and its allies.
Brothers, at this international gathering which has brought
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together active forces from all continents of the world which have
felt this threat and are united in this world internationalist front,
I say that this danger which is threatening us - this strong threat
from imperialism and its allies - forces us, in the context of
self-defense, to defend our existence on earth and under the sun;
forces us to create the internationalist front on the world level to
confront this danger. Imperialism and its allies are the common
enemy of all those struggling for freedom. I believe that you feel
this sentiment in depth, sincerity, and seriousness; a matter which
has promtped you to come here. [sounds of chanting]
Brothers, this danger makes it imperative for us to change this
action into a world effective and militant force in order to
confront this danger. The small nations are no longer confident
of their existence because of this filthy alliance. Peaceful and
ordinary human beings everywhere in the world are being chased
by this evil which is hostile to mankind and which is fighting them
for their food. This is seen in the economic warfare against Libya
by imperialism, in the military blockade of Nicaragua, the armed
and high-handed and unjustified invasion of Grenada, the con-
stant threat against the nations of Latin America which are
fighting for freedom, the constant threat against the Iranian
revolution, and the killing and destitution of the Palestinian and
Lebanese people [applause] the constant threat against the secu-
rity of Syria, the constant threat against the stability and inde-
pendence of Angola, Mozambique, and all the states which lie on
the borders of South Africa. [applause] Denying the people of
Namibia their independence and freedom on their soil,
threatening all hopes for peace in the Mediterranean - the small
peoples who live on the Mediterranean islands and the peoples of
the Mediterranean countries have been trying to heal their
wounds after World War II and to rebuild what was destroyed
by the warring forces, so that trade and culture will revive and
so that the economy will revive, and peace will be strengthened.
However, imperialism, its presence, policies, and aspirations, are
completely contradictory with this hope and these wishes. Right
now, U.S. fleets are making noise in the Mediterranean, trying
to threaten this sea's peace and the security of this sea's peoples,
and to transform it from a sea of trade, peace, culture, and
stability into a sea of destruction and war and the destruction of
all the peoples overlooking the Mediterranean and the small
peoples who live on the Mediterranean islands. Even interna-
tional detente, which mankind applauded, has not achieved
anything as far as we small peoples, are concerned - nothing
has been achieved. Perhaps sometimes it may seem to us that
detente is at the expense of small peoples. Indeed, it would be
frightening if a war were to take place between the nuclear
superpowers. It has not taken place yet, but has war stopped on
other people's territory? No not at all! Therefore, we, the small
peoples reject any detente at our expense. We will not benefit
from the absence of confrontation between the superpowers when
the quid pro quo is to sacrifice the other peoples. [chanting of
slogans]
There is no intention whatsoever to stop the Gulf war. The arms
traders of the states that have been calling publically for stopping
the war have been sending weapons to the fascist regime in
Baghdad, a regime that is hostile to the Iraqi people and which
has thrown the Iraqi Army in the couldron of this war, a war they
do not want. The Iraqi Army is ready to engage in a war against
Zionism and against imperialism. [shouts: "Down With Impe-
rialism"]
The threat of war against the peoples of Latin America, the
peoples of the Arab nation, and the peoples of Africa which
border on South Africa has not ended. We cannot at all accept
the assurance of peace between the major powers in return for
sacrificing the small nations. [applause] The physical liquidation
of our revolutionary leaders continues. The occupation of our
territories continues. The chasing of our masses continues: the
Palestinian people are hunted down with U.S. planes; the Leb-
anese people are hit by U.S. planes and ships; the Kurdish nation
is torn up and the kurds are being persecuted and their villages
razed. [applause]
The people in South Africa, the 20 million blacks who are the
real owners of the land - they have been denied the right to exist,
to be independent, and to enjoy their rights as human beings over
their soil. They are being persecuted by a handful of white racists.
This handful is supported by U.S. imperialism. The United
States refused to impose any sanctions against racism in South
Africa. Why? It is because racism in South Africa implements
U.S. policy, which is barbaric and hostile to the blacks, and which
regards the black race as being less than human. [applause]
Brothers [chanting], we have to convey [al-nungil] the forces of
collective struggle with our people in South Africa, who are being
subjected to continued killings, without mercy, by a handful of
white colonialists [words indistinct], who are supported
[chanting], supported by the United States. [chanting] One of our
forces that constitutes the internationalist front hostile to impe-
rialism, racism, etc is the black people in South Africa, regarding
whom I have addressed a message to African youth. African
youth throughout Africa are prepared to volunteer so that we can
fight racism in South Africa so that we can destroy it. [chanting]
We, the people struggling for freedom which constitute this
internationalist front, categorically do not recognize any white in
the southern part of the African Continent; South Africa belongs
to Africa and Africa belongs to Africans; let them take their
hands off Africa. [chanting] We do not recognize any white
presence in the African Continent. We, at this gathering, must
decide to fight side by side with our oppressed people in South
Africa; we must decide to fight with our colonized people in
Namibia; we must decide to fight collectively to liberate Grenada
and destroy the symbols of U.S. imperialist installed there and
return (chanting] the forces of the New Jewel Movement in
Grenada. However small, the people of Grenada have the right
to choose the system they want, and to live in freedom, dignity
and security on their island. Brothers, we must all stand with the
people of Nicaragua against the blatant insolent threat from the
United States. [chanting]
Brothers, we should all stand by the people of Nicaragua against
the blatant and harsh threats from the United States. [applause]
We should strengthen Cuba's steadfastness in confronting U.S.
imperialism. [applause] We should put our hand in the hand of
our brothers, friends, and comrades, Castro and Ortega, and
their comrades in Nicaragua and Cuba. [applause and shouting
of slogans) We should also decide to fight alongside our comrades
the revolutionaries of Central America and Latin America
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against fascism and reactionism which are supported by U.S.
imperialism. [applause]
We must be ready to fight side by side with our Palestinian
people, the victims of Zionism which is the puppet and base of
the United States. [chantingof slogans-lauding Palestine] Our
people in Palestine are subjected to mass annihilation inside and
outside Palestine. Mass prisons inside occupied Palestine are
built by Zionism which is insolently supported by the United
States with all the means of destruction. Mass prisons are built
for all the active forces of our Palestinian people in the occupied
territory. American aircraft, piloted by pilots of dual American
and Israeli nationality, are hounding the Palestinian people
outside Palestine in their camps in Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, and
even in Tunisia. In addition, international Zionism assassinates
Palestinian revolutionary leaders wherever they are. It kills them
in their homes in Beirut, it assassinates them in Europe, and
chases them everywhere.
The Nuremburg trials of Nazis accused of the mass annihilation
of Jews defined mass assassination as genocide. This definition
applies today, but the other way around, to what Zionism is doing
to the Palestinian people because genocide is the mass killing of
the members of a specific group, or making them homeless, or
seizing their property, or attacking them physically or morally,
or compelling them to follow a specific way of life which would
lead to their extinction, or kidnapping their children. All of these
definitions apply now to what Zionism is doing in Palestine
against [words indistinct].
Sympathy for the Israelis will continue after they have become
Nazis and have done to the Arabs what Hitler did to them. But
the arrogant and the power-mad, the U.S. rulers and the other
imperialist powers, or the agent-followers of the United States
will not listen. However, those who do listen to this are - and
we say it for their sake - the small peoples whose fate will be
like the fate of the Palestinian people, as long as collective
struggle on an internationalist front like this is not created for
resistance against this common enemy.
The dynamic forces present here in front of me in the second
conference of the forces struggling against imperialism, Zionism,
racism, facism, and reaction will listen to these words. In addition
to our Palestinian people, there is the Lebanese people on whom
liquidation is now being visited by order of the United States to
its instrument, Zionism in Palestine, by the destruction of the
Middle East peoples around Palestine until a population imbal-
ance occurs which enables Zionism to attract 25 million citizens
from other countries who embrace Judaism and force them to
live in the Middle East to enable the rise of a Zionist empire. And
thus the United States gurantees its influence in the Middle East
and the protection of its interests. The United States plans to
seize the oil-fields in this region in the coming years by using the
Israelis. The United States will sacrifice those who believe that
they are its Arab friends when the opportunity comes for Zionism
to take over the oil-fields and the reins of power which secure
American interests in the Middle East [words indistinct]
We have to decide in this internationalist meeting to start collec-
tive struggle in its concrete form. We decided on it in principle
and in theory in our first conference, and now we have to lay down
the practical arrangements, we have to undertake collective
struggle. Nobody can prevent us from undertaking collective
struggle in any part of our homeland because we are a peace-
loving people who want to live in security on their lands. On their
own, that is, no people can face alone the attack of imperialism
and its filthy alliance.
Therefore, in order to survive, for self-defence, and so as to secure
victory, we are obliged to fight collectively. If we wage a col-
lective struggle in South Africa, with SWAPO in Namibia,
alongside the peoples of Angola, Mozambique, Botswana, and all
the states threatened by South Africa's racism; with our Palestin-
ian, Lebanese, Syrian, and Libyan peoples; in Nicaragua, Cuba,
and with the peoples of Latin America, Central America and
South America; with the people of Grenada - if we decide to
undertake a collective struggle, we will inevitably triumph, and
no one can ever protest such a method. This is our duty, our right,
and we would be defending our existence.
No one in the world can prevent us from engaging in collective
struggle against the common enemy; he who wants to protest the
founding of the [words indistinct] of collective struggle and
collective fighting against this alliance, then he would have to
come and liquidate this alliance on our behalf, and we would not
therefore be obliged to undertake collective struggle. [applause]
When aggression is committed against Grenada and the latter is
occupied, and no one can retrieve Grenada's freedom, how then
can anyone protest or offer advice on how Grenada should be
recovered by collective struggle? Let the people of Grenada
become the ally even of the devil in order to retrieve their
freedom.
When the Libyan Jamahiriyah is threatened by U.S. fleets, in its
own territory, and no one in the world, except this small force of
our peoples which came and responded to this threat - and the
Libyan people are asked to show restraint; when Angola is
subjected to aggression and its territory is repeatedly invaded,
and no one comes, except the Cuban forces, to fight alongside the
Angolan people, and Angola is asked to show restrain while its
territory is subjected to fighting and invasion; when the ports of
Nicaragua are mined and a military and economic blockade is
imposed on it, this country is asked to show restrain tso as to avoid
a threat to world peace; Libya is asked to show restraint otherwise
it would clash with the U.S. 6th Fleet and a world war would
break out; Cuba, whose territory is partly occupied by the United
States, is asked to show restrain and not to attack this base on its
territory; when France and the United States enter into a collec-
tive colonialism against the collective struggle in Chad in order
to colonize it and turn it into a base for joint French-U.S.
imperialism, and the friends of Chad and even the Chadian
revolution are asked to show restraint - well, in such cases what
does restraint mean? It would mean capitulation to these
enemies, with us surrendering our territories and necks, and they
trampling our dignity under foot. All that for peace, stability, and
for providing an opportunity for war. [sentence as heard]
What kind of peace and stability is this? Peace at the expense of
our honor and at the expense of our independence? Never! We
have to decide and they have to control themselves and remain
inside their borders. The imperialists must remain inside their
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borders. As for us, we shall not control our temper and shall not
control (?ourselves) in defending ourselves. [chanting] .
Last January and February (?we had) a military confrontation
with the United States opposite the Gulf of Sidra. The United
States amassed more than (?200) aircraft on board. This amass-
ing was carried out against the small Libyan people, and the
whole world was watching, listening and [word indistinct] Jan-
uary and February. No one was able to stand against this huge
fleet. These carriers made threatening sorties and during the two
maneuvers there were 3,000 sorties in which more than 200
aircraft took part. Two of the carriers were carrying fighter
planes and the third carrier was carrying helicopters. This fleet
was composed of [word indistinct], destroyers, and warships and
was supported by landing and supply ships, intelligence, and
radio jamming. Libya, on its own, from the direct military point
of view, stood against this barbaric imperialist campaign. The
Libyan Air Force recorded more than 1,500 sorties over the.Gulf
of Sidra to confront these U.S. sorties. About 20 direct intercep-
tion operations took place which (?nearly led to) fighting between
the Libyan Air Force and the U.S. imperialist forces.; Libya
adopted a firm, declared, and courageous stance before the
world. The 32.30 parallel, which is the beginning of the Gulf of
Sidra is considered the line of death;.we are actually prepared to
die for it. The United States, during the past 2 months and despite
all their air and naval attempts, did not succeed in getting close
to this parallel because it is aware- that this line is the line of
death. I told you at the conference of solidarity and at the
preparatory committee - the sentence I mentioned at the. begin-
ning of this speech - namely that the United States cannot
defeat the Libyans, but can annihilate them with its atomic
bombs and fleets. There is a difference between defeat and
annihilation. [chanting of slogans]
At the time when this confrontation was still not at an end,
French troops landed along the southern borders of Libya in
Chad. The military reinforcements for the agents of America and
France in Ndjamena have doubled. The reactionary alliance
against the revolution in Iran continues. The Zionist onslalught
against the Palestinian, Lebanese, and Syrian peoples continues.
The United States' threats against the people of the DPRK and
against the people of Nicaragua and the peoples of Central
America and Latin America continues.
In this situation, self-control must be exercised. We should
restrain ourselves. Suppose we did not exercise self-control and
did not restrain ourselves, what would happen? War would break
out, peace would collapse, trade would be threatened, and the
lines of communication would be-threatened in vital areas of the
world. What would happen after this? The aggressors would lose
and the capitalists would lose and the capitalist companies would
lose the multinational companies which exploit us and which
exhaust the resources of these nations, because the the airlines
and the planes belong to these capitalist companies and countries.
Their peace is at the expense of our nations. We do not enjoy
peace, neither in America, Africa, nor Asia. The threat contin-
ues. The killing, imprisonment, and massacres in the Sabra and
Shatila mass prisons in Palestine,. massacres in South Africa -
the threat continues against independent states, denying the right
of the people of Namibia to independence, denying the right to
independence to the people of New Caledonia and Martinique by
French imperialism.
France wants to extend its borders to (?Reunion) and to Caledo-
nia in the Pacific and to Martinique in the Atlantic. They talk
about peace and they demand - or rather they believe that they
have the right to - a.(?permanent) seat at the Security Council.
[applause] How can this aggressor, who is tampering with the
world, be given a permanent seat at the Security Council and the
right of veto? It should be expelled from the United Nations.
One of the serious matters which has frightened them is this
meeting. This meeting of ours has frightened and terrorized these
tyrants because it (?was) a precondition for this meeting - which
must be approved as a result and a decision and a principle of this
meeting - that these nations should reconsider these dynamic
forces which will shape the future of the world, should reconsider
the United Nations and its Charter and all its institutions
because in the United Nations there are governments which are
united against the nations. [sentence as heard] As for the nations,
they are represented here and they are the ones which (?stand
up).and confront the United States on Libyan soil and which are
(?meeting) at this international conference. The UN Charter
should be looked into again. It gives the right of veto against
resolutions of all the states to a state which is a member of the
Security Council and which enjoys this right of veto. We, as
nations, do not accept this. We, as nations which represent the
vast. majority on earth, do not accept this hegemony and this
haughtiness and arrogance. We will resist it with all our means
until the will of the small nations triumphs.
If the Security Council is meant to be a place for permanent seats
for the big powers, we do not object to these big powers which
occupy the five seats forming a security council of their own.
They can then veto one another and fight one another and
America, can use the veto against the other four. We shall not
interfere in this. [applause and shouts in English "Down With the
Veto"]
Yes, down with the veto. As for us, the nations which pay the
price in all the wars and whose existence is threatened today, we
are the fuel of the wars - the first and the second world wars.
This land in which you are meeting, most of the battles in the
Second World War were fought on it. Libya was not a member
of the Allies or a member of the Axis. But the Axis and the Allies
fought on Libyan soil. They destroyed our homes and they killed
us; they killed our livestock and they planted mines in this soil -
these mines are still here now. They hindered the building of
roads and development. We paid a high price in a war which
concerned the Allies and the Axis.
,The people of Pland were raided by the German hordes unexpect-
edly and without justification, withour prior warning and without
any offence having been committed by the Polish people. The
armies invaded it [words indistinct] Poland (?was taken). They
swept into Warsaw. Nothing of it remained except the word
Warsaw engraved on a marble plaque. This small nation paid a
costly price: 4,000 Nazi planes attacked it. All our nations have
paid the price, and we are threatened once again. We are paying
the price daily with our nerves because of this official terrorism
which is being imposed on us by imperialism, facism, and racism.
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The Syrians, the Lebanese, the Jordanians, and all the Arab
peoples are threatened daily. They live under official terrorism
which is imposed by Zionism with U.S. means. The African
nations live under official terrorism. Every day they expect a
barbaric raid by the racists of South Africa on their (?homes).
The Libyan people here live under the constant threat of the U.S.
6th Fleet. The peoples of Latin America and Central America
are daily threatened. [words indistinct] Today we are paying the
price with our security and stability and nerves.
In war, we shall pay the price with our lives, our blood, our homes
and our property. I am saying this in order to reach a conclusion,
namely, these peoples who are paying the price of the cold war
and the hot war have the right to work out the guarantees for
world peace because it concerns them, because they are victims.
We are the instrument of peace; we (?want) to establish an
internationalist security council and establish a true united
nations and not [words indistinct]. [chanting]
We must threaten all governments to [word indistinct] the gov-
ernments represented now at the present United Nations, at the
Security Council. All these movements here in front of me can
put strong pressure on these governments to formulate [tusigh]
the United Nations to become what we, the active forces in the
world, want. If these governments failed [words indistinct] our
threat and resounding yell, we shall begin to establish a new
intrernationalist organization which truly represents the peoples,
which truly represents the peace-loving nations, which does not
represent the imperialists and world (?police) who want to impose
sanctions on us. The Security Council will face strong resistance
from now on because it is a U.S. Security Council. This Council
has broken down and will not, as it has in the past, be able to take
any steps in the future in favor of any of the oppressed peoples
and in favor of any of our issues which the United States does
not agree with because at events like this the United States will
use its right of veto and the Security Council resolutions will be
scrapped. The United Nations General Assembly, which is sup-
posed to to be where the United Nations meet, has no will of its
own now, it is faced by the United States will. The U.S. repre-
sentative at the Security Council scraps a resolution issued by the
United Nations General Assembly. In this way, we, the small
peoples and the strugglers for freedom have no confidence as of
now in the United Nations General Assembly in its present form.
We do not consider the Security Council to be an international
Security Council but a U.S. Security Council, decayed by the
U.S. will and a hinderance to the will of the Arab peoples.
Consequently, we have the right to establish a truly international
internationalist organization that will protect peace. We can
muster enough forces to enable us to send [it] to any part of the
world to keep peace and to prevent any war.
The UN force now is only used to protect the Israelis. Where are
the UN forces at the moment? They are between Egypt and
occupied Palestine so that the Egyptian people are not able to
fight, even to regain the Gaza Strip which is part of Egypt. They
are between Lebanon and Palestine so that the Palestinians and
the Lebanese are not able to fight against Zionism. They are now
present in the Golan to prevent Syria from regaining a part of its
occupied territories. UN forces are now present in other parts of
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the world to affirm the imperialist, the racist, and the Zionist
presence.
In the shadow of the UN forces, Patrice Lumumba was phys-
ically liquidated so that the Congo could become what it is - the
Congo and Zaire have become a region for U.S. and Israeli
imperialist influence. Now they have carried out collective colo-
nialism - Khrushchev used this term. I am not the first to use
collective colonialism. This term entered the political lexicon in
the sixties. The forces that are hostile to peace, socialism, and
freedom represented collective colonialism, when every power on
its own failed to keep its colonies. In fact, this collective colonial-
ism has returned as Chad is now witnessing collective colonial-
ism. French-U.S. colonialism is in Ndjamena, and with them are
fascist and reactionary forces. Our organization has basically
been established to combat them. Palestine is also witnessing
collective colonialism; Lebanon is bombed by U.S. and Israeli
planes and shelled by U.S. and Israeli ships. Collective
colonialisn has returned: racism in South Africa is supported by
Zionism and the United States. Look at the alliance bewteen
these forces; they are fighting collectively, therefore we should
fight them collectively, or otherwise they will defeat us one by
one. This matter is very serious since it concerns the existence of
our people. [applause]
Collective struggle should be in our charters, among our priciples.
It should be among the natural rights of people and masses
everywhere. Collective struggle is the right of people to organize
themselves in a collective struggle for freedom and to fight
imperialism, Zionism, racism, reactionism, and fascism all over
the world, irrespective of boundaries. Red Indians, blacks, the
yellow race - all the oppressed and all those fighting in the name
of freedom should organize themselves in collective struggle
without borders and without descrimination on the basis of sex,
color, or geography. Our existence is threatened by a collective
colonialism. In return, we should declare the rights of the
Jamahiri human being, a human being who should live in the
time of the masses, a human being who likes to live free and
happy and liberated from all pressures and shackles. We should
declare that every human being has a right to fight the tools of
of government, as all instruments of government have shown that
they do not represent the people.
Instruments of government in Western Europe do not represent
the people of Western Europe. As proof of this we have with us
here alternative movements, alternatives to the existing regimes
in Western Europe because these regimes submit to the United
States, these regimes agree with the U.S. on measures that are
so dangerous that they might threaten the security of the people
of Western Europe, measures on deploying medium-range
nuclear missiles in Western Europe. This means that during any
future war the first nuclear strikes will be directed toward
Western Europe in order to destroy these missiles immediately,
before military operations develop into a third world war. [sen-
tence as heard] The alternative movements, the Greens, realized
this danger, and they staged demonstrations to protest the
deployment of U.S. missiles in Western Europe. This is because
it is not in the interest of Western Europe to accept the deploy-
ment of these missiles, as this entails the destruction of the
peoples of this region during a nuclear war. But the forces of
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tyranny fought this angry movement, trampling upon it with the
hoofs of horses and pouring boiling water over it.
Every day, satellites and television bring to us pictures of acts of
repression against the masses in Western Europe, the masses that
reject U.S. hegemony and dominiation. We are going to enter
into an alliance; this front includes, among others, the peoples of
Western Europe, the dynamic forces in Western Europe, the
alternative movements in Western Europe, the Greens, the new
Green movement in Western Europe, which is an extension of us.
[applause] This front will include all these forces so that we may
fight with them against the U.S. presence in Western Europe.
These masses will be able to undermine the U.S. military bases
in Western Europe, because these masses, burnt by the flames of
World War I and World War II, do not want to enter into the
inferno of a third world war.
The presence of U.S. military bases and U.S. missiles in Western
Europe threatens these people with a destruction yet more hor-
rendous than World War Il, because in World War II nuclear
weapons were not used [as heard] but most likely they would be
used in a third world war. Therefore, in order to survive, these
people will fight to undermine the U.S. military bases. We will
support them and extent to them all the possibilities to undermine
imperialist bases in Western Europe.
We must declare that everyone has the right to resist this power
by using similar means. Everyone has the right to resist repre-
sentation, instruments of power, and deputation. These are nat-
ural rights for all men. Every man has the right to transcend
representation, instrumentality or deputation in lieu of himself,
and to come forward and determine his own destiny. [applause]
Every man has right to self-rule; no one should impose on you a
mandate council, a council of representatives, or a government.
Every man has the right to self-rule, and to resist any domination
or interference in his own will. Every man has the right to express
what he wants in a way suitable to himself. Every man has the
right to gain knowledge in a way suitable to himself, and govern-
ments, instruments of power, and imperialism must not force us
to learn what they want. As in the case of a ruling family which
wants to teach the people it rules the history of this family, the
favors of this family - this is dictatorship, oppression.
The people have the right to learn; it is not necessary for them to
learn the history of the Hashemite family. Let their own sons
learn it, the sons of the Hashemite family; let its history be taught
to its own sons. [applause]
Everybody should have the right to a suitable job. (?We must say)
no if the opportunity to work is taken away from us and if we are
compelled to do a job that the forces of exploitation want. Every
human being should be entitled to the fruits of his own produc-
tion. We are all forbidden to access our own production: the
producer is not entitled to his own fruitful production. You work,
but your production is taken away by the forces of exploitation.
We must declare that the revolution is a natural, necessary, and
an important duty. We must declare a ban on the hiring of human
beings. Humans are hired everywhere as if they were a camel, a
cow, or a vehicle. One of the worst phenomenons of this era is the
hiring of a man; a human being is being hired; he is a wage-earner
of the employer, a wage-earner of the land owner, a wage-earner
of the landlord, and a wage-earner of the authority. We must
reject the hiring of human beings. We are the new force which
will make the future of the world - the world of the jamahir; a
world free from oppression and exploitation; a world of happiness,
freedom and emancipation; a world with no governments, no
parties, no social classes, no strata, no regular armies or police.
[chants]
A house, a vehicle, and goods are the sacred right of every human
being. No one should be allowed to dominate (?property) or own
it. A house should be owned by its occupier; your own clothes
should be your own property. [words indistinct] The wealth of any
country should be equally devided between its citizens, with no
distinction. Millions of Americans are deprived of the wealth of
their country because the wealth of the United States is not
devided equally between the Americans. The United States'
wealth is the monopoly of the capitalist forces, which is just a
minority of the people. Tens of thousands of Americans live in
the open, with no lodging or home in the U.S. capital. Are the
blacks not citizens of the United States? Yes, they are!
Sixty percent of back youth in the United States are unemployed;
they have no work opportunity - 60 percent, in comparison with
only 15 percent of the whites who are unemployed. Of course, 15
percent is a large percentage, but small in comparison with the
60 percent unemployed blacks. At the same time, we find
400,000 or more blacks conscripted into the U.S. Army - this
constitutes 20 percent of [words indistinct] of blacks.
I extended an invitation when the Ummat al-Islam convened its
conference in Chicago and I addressed them via satellite. I asked
the 400,000 blacks in the U.S. Army to mutiny and leave military
services. Yes, there are blacks in the U.S. Army and police [words
indistinct] this imperialist institution and smuggle their weapons
and military gear out and to destroy this barbaric and antipeople
military machinery, to destroy it from inside. U.S. blacks should
continue to call, covertly and openly, upon their brothers in the
military institutions and the U.S. police to escape from these
institutions, destroy them from inside, and smuggle their weap-
ons out. From now on, we shall all address calls to our brothers
the blacks in the United States, [chanting]
The white U.S. citizen's income is around $17,000 per annum,
while the blavk U.S. citizen's income is $9,000. If they are both
U.S. citizens then why hasn't the United States provided for
equal distribution? This is because the whites consider blacks to
be nonhuman and noncitizens. Look at this humane society which
is called North America. It distinguishes between human beings:
This one is black and nonhuman; that one is white and human.
Then, when we come to the whites, we find that the exploiting
whites exploit the poor whites, and, consequently, we find that
15 percent of the whites are unemployed - but we find that 60
percent of blacks are unemployed.
There are around 5 million blacks in Britain. I was in Britain in
1966 and made a study of their conditions. I studied their
situation and found the dirty jobs were assigned to those black
Africans in Britain; dirty jobs and extremely low wages for these
dirty jobs, without any social security. They are the ones who
carry coal and load trucks with coal; they sweep the underground
[preceding word in English] tunnels. [applause] They sweep the
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cafes of the Britons, and every dirty job is given to blacks in
Britain.
In fact, the blacks constitute a terrible force that can 'shake
Britain - millions. Fortunately, they are members of this front,
and from now on [applause] they will get their rights. [loud
applause]
Imagine, the United Nations had long ago defined racial dis-
crimination: racial discrimination is denial of human rights,
fundamental rights, and justice; it is a crime against mankind
and a heavy obstacle in the face of economic and social develop-
ment; it is an impediment to international cooperation and peace.
Look at this explanation of racial discrimination. And despite
this, the United States supports the racist regime in South Africa
which commits all these crimes; the U.S. imposes a blockade on
Nicaragua, Libya, and Democratic Korea. It fights the Iranian
revolution and the revolution in Latin America. [words indis-
tinct].
(?We have heard, for example, from representatives on the
Philippine people who are persecuted because they believe in a
religion that is not the religion of the government. [applause] This
group is attacked when they perform their religious rites, and
oppression against them [words indistinct] they plan and it may
have significance and entail danger.
The new president of the Philippines said that the government is
a revolutionary one. If the new government is revolutionary, then
we shall applaud, welcome, and extend our hand to it. If it is truly
revolutionary, it must, first, demolish the U.S. bases. [applause]
Then it would be free of U.S. influence - the Philippines would
not be under the U.S. sphere of influence. Second, if this is truly
a revolutionary government, it must erase oppression and grant
rights to the religious group whose representatives are'here, a
group which has been oppressed - mass genocide was committed
against them under the previous Philippine government.
[applause] Otherwise, the struggle will continue: [applause]
There are representatives of various groups of the Kurdish nation
with us. This is a divided, oppressed, and tormented nation', whose
neighbors deny it its right of unity and independence. We cannot
ignore the state of this helpless nation. We must declare wherever
we may be in the world, and we cover all the continents, the right
of the Kurdish nation to unity and independence. [applause]
We have with us representatives of another dismembered, perse-
cuted and wiped out nation. The United States is the criminal.
The representatives are from the red Indian nation. [applause]
This nation has a population of well over 80 million spread out
between North and South America and the ocean islands.
We, the peoples of the small nations which are fighting (?in the
name) of freedom and which are hostile to colonialism, have to
carry another slogan in addition 'to that of the Kurdish nation -
the slogan of the right of the red Indian nation to unity and
independence, and to be able to live in the land of its forefathers
in the United States of America in dignity and glory. [applause]
This nation, when it becomes independent and united along with
the Kurdish nation and the rest of the persecuted and dismem-
bered nations, will be creating a new world of nations which used
to be colonized and exploited and persecuted, and which appre-
ciates the value of freedom and peace and the value of justice.
These nations, if united and indepedent, will be the ones that will
create the new world - the world of freedom, peace, and
happiness.
As for the world in which we live today, it is a world which was
created'by the powerful who triumphed in World War II. They
are the ones who drew the map of today's world. They are the
ones who arranged the peoples and nations in the way they chose.
They dismembered nations and dismembered peoples. They
divided territories which were one to suit their colonialist inter-
ests. They are the ones who left racism in South Africa and
Zionism in Palestine. They are the ones who created the problems
over which the Third World states - former colonies - have
been fighting, over borders that these colonialists created.
Therefore, the world in which we live today is created by impe-
rialism through military force. As for the world which we will be
creating, it is going to be the world of the colonized and per-
secuted peoples who cherish freedom, love peace, and want to live
in happiness, and would appreciate these values and consequently
safeguard them. They are the ones who are qualified to create
international security arrangements for safguarding world peace.
Peace cannot be left to a reckless power like the United States,
which has a permanent seat and the right of veto at the Security
Council, and which sends her fleets to terrify us in our own homes
and set up military and nuclear bases throughout the world. How
can we leave the task of peace and security in the world to such
a satanic power. Indeed, it should be destroyed, and we should
fight it [applause] and undermine its bases. [applause]
A new force had been added as a result of the unjust U.S.
confrontation against the people of the Jamahiriyah. During this
confrontation people's congress of all nationalities that exist on
Libyan soil were held in the territory of the Jamahiriyah.
[chanting] Congresses of all nationalities that exist on Libyan soil
were held, and basic people's congresses were formed, and they
announced the formation of an internationalist anti-imperialist
front which, subsequently, joined this conference. Thus, a new
force has been added to the forces which attended the first
conference, and the internationalist international Zionism, rac-
ism, fascism, and reaction people's front was enlarged. It now
includes all peoples of the world, and no one can prevent these
masses from determining their destiny and creating a popular
front, and [words indistinct] and form people's congresses, peo-
ple's committees and revolutionary committees everywhere in the
world. The struggle is between the masses and those who are
enslaving them - their conquerors, their exploiters. The masses
will not hesitate to strike blows against the instruments of power
and forces of tyranny and exploitation everywhere in the world
so that the masses will triumph. Brothers, this gathering is the
foundation stone of the era of the masses. There is another force:
revolutionary forces, covert and overt, all over the world, and
covert and overt people's congresses all over the world, which
constitute the rear of this gathering, an extension of it and [words
indistinct] of this gathering. There are people's congresses on all
the world's continents; there are revolutionary committees on all
the world's continents. The era of the masses is being propagated;
the era of peoples devoid of governments, armies, police and all
forces of tyranny and exploitation in the land of the Jama-
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hiriyahs. [chanting] Yes, power must be for the masses; people's
power must be established. This cry, power to the masses, power
to the people, now exists everywhere in the world. True and
lasting peace cannot be achieved without the establishment of
jamahiriyahs everywhere in the world, because peoples like each
other. [chanting]
Brothers, I wish you success in this great international encounter
which brings together all the movements fighting for freedom,
all the peace movements in the world [words indistinct] from
imperialism, fascism, reaction, racism, and Zionism, the enemies
of mankind. These masses, these peoples, these movements, want
to turn the Mediterranean into a lake of peace, and want to bring
about cooperation and fraternity between Europe, Africa, and
the Arab world through the Mediterranean which must be free
of foreign fleets, foreign bases, and nuclear missiles. This force
wants the black nations to take its rightful place on earth; and
likewise for the red Indian nation, and the fragmented Kurdish
nation.
These forces want to achieve genuine peace; they want to see the
efforts of mankind come together to vanquish nature, to exploit
nature, and to resolve man's economic problems. These forces
want the destruction of all the forces hostile to development, to
prosperity, to progress currently embodied by imperialism, capi-
talism, facism, reaction, racism, and Zionism. If these enemies
persist on earth, mankind will not be able to live in peace and
reassurance; freedom will not be able to triumph and prosper,
and man's evil forces, these allied forces that are fighting us
collectively, continue to exist.
We can defeat them if we fight collectively. Hence, we must
decide the principle of collective struggle and collective combat
in order to vanquish these forces. The revolutionary struggle
continues! Forward! [applause, shouting of slogans and chants].
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AGENCY - The delegate of the alternative movements in
Spain lauds the speech given by the leader of the revolution in
that, he adds, it calls for what they are interested in, viz.,
elimination of imperialism and the like.
He continues that efforts should be orchestrated vis-a-vis United
Nations calling for placing pressure on it to abolish veto at U.N.
Security Council so as to make equal all the peoples and nations
worldwide.
He accuses U.S. Administration of attempting to put an end to
peace and security in the Mediterranean Sea region, condemning
its provocations and demanding that it withdraw all its military
fleets from there.
Louis Farrakhan, the American Black Muslim leader, says that
all U.S. citizens who have come to this conference are threatened
to be sentenced to ten-year imprisonment in U.S.A., adding that
they don't recognise the right of Reagan legally, morally and also
according to the God-given law.
He adds that he as a Muslim reserves his right to travel anywhere
to stand by the side of Muslims who are fighting to eliminate
imperialism and terrorism.
He pointed out that there are now 30 million Black Muslims in
America besides the Indians there who number around 90 mil-
lions who have laid down a strategy against imperialism and
racism side by side with the vital forces in the world at large.
He demands that Reagan stop interfering in Africa, Latin Amer-
ica and Nicaragua, calling for standing by the Palestinian people
who are striving to redeem their homeland - Palestine.
Farrakhan reiterates that they are not terrorist because they are
struggling to undermine imperialism and racism, stressing that
the pledges of the real freedom-fighters are the only ones that
will bring about victory over imperialism and neo-colonialism.
The delegate of the Palestine Liberation Organization says force
has been used to terrorise the peoples of the region who oppose
U.S. hegemony schemes, especially against the Jamahiriyah that
is subjected to U.S. provocations.
He points out that without U.S. support and backing the Zionist
entity will be unable to exercise its blind racism to fulfill Zionist
ambitions to occupy Palestinian and Arab lands.
He condemns the savage attempts made so far to impose the
U.S.-Zionist scheme with a view to liquidate the Palestinian
question through intimidation and persuasion, pointing out that
it is regrettable that such schemes are dealt with by Arab reaction
and right-wing deviated Palestinians. Such quarters have either
forgotten or bypassed.the fact that U.S. imperialism can't act as
a mediator in our conflict with Zionism, simply because such
imperialism is a. basic quarter in this conflict, let alone being
biased totally to the Zionist enemy.
He also points out the capitulatory direction pursued by `Arafat
through his welcoming of the visit made by traitor al-Sadat to
occupied al-Quds and bringing about reconciliation with the
enemy.
The delegate of Malta Labour Party says that it is high time the
military bases were eliminated in the world in general and in the
Mediterranean Sea basin in particular.
He continues that imperialism is behind the diaspora of. the
Palestinians, displaced from its own homeland.
He draws the attention of delegates at the conference to the
question of Cyprus, calling on them to stand for its unity and the
withdrawal of all foreign troops from there.
He expresses his pleasure to be present at conference so as to have
the chance to meet all those who struggle against imperialism
whose delegates have come here and assembled on the soil of the
great Al Fatah revolution - on the soil that has learnt and
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experienced a lot and has fulfilled the dream cherished by
mankind, vis., liberation and emancipation.
He also says that they salute the leader of the revolution and his
people for their hospitality.
The delegate of the alternative movements in Italy in his speech
says that they should condemn the stand assumed by Reagan,
stressing that there should be a real solidarity among those
present at the conference. This solidarity, he calls on them,
should be transformed to a collelctive struggle waged by all
wronged peoples and nations worldwide, forming a unified front
against imperialism and neo-colonialism.
Shaykh Ben Oumar in his speech stresses that unlike what
imeprialists and reactionary historians allege Chad is no creation
of French Colonialism. It had an economic, social, cultural and
political regular presence before the imperialist invasion in the
nineteenth century.
He adds this Chadian state was of the Islamic religion when
Arabic was used in all social and family life, but the French
imperialist administration started to undermine the components
of the cultural character of the Chadian people through organiz-
ing blood massacres against scholars men of God and through
the closing of schools and burning of books and implanting
instead French culture in all walks of life.
Thus, he continues, the Chadian people have been subjected to
more than a century to French imperialism and to more than 20
years of civil war started by France, U.S.A. and their allies, let
alone the arrogance of racists in Africa and Israel.
He has also recounted the atrocities committed in Chad at the
hands of France to subjugate the Chadian people.
He has also mentioned the national liberation front under the
leadership of Ibrahim Ibsha in 1966 which was an epoch-making
in the history of the struggle of his people against the French
invaders, pointing out that the masses realized then their respon-
sibilities and started to shoulder it. [sentence as received]
The escalation of the Chadian national struggle notwithstanding,
French military intervention took place in 69/1970 to attempt to
rescue whatever was left of their dictatorial rule there. Further-
more, the French made every endeavour to undermine the Chad-
ian national movements from within through recruiting some
nationals to serve its interests and infilitrate the front such as
Habre and Hussan Sadiq. Also, tribal ideological and political
conflicts erupted, and as a consequence, the bases on which
Chadian patriotic movements was laid down were shaken. One
of such outcomes came into being in 1970 when puppet Habre
with French support launched massacre operations against
Chadian citizens under pretext of preserving peace.
He concludes that since Islam is a religion that exhorts people to
be tolerant, and because of the danger of civil war that has come
to threaten our people represented by the imperialist conspiracies
and manoeuvres, an agreement has been concluded by all con-
cerned and conflicting quarters in Chad to achieve peace and
security.
Al-Qadhdhafi Receives Burkina Faso Official, Letter
LDI 71009 Tripoli JANA in English 0948 GMT 17 Mar 86
[Text] Tripoli, Rajab 6, March 17, JAMAHIRIYAH NEWS
AGENCY - The leader of the revolution received yesterday the
secretary general of the Revolution Defence Committees and
member of Revolution Command Council of Jamahiriyah of
Burkina Faso who is heading the delegation of his country to the
second international conference of the international centre for
combatting imperialism, Zionism, racism, fascism and reaction
which started its sessions Saturday afternoon.
The secretary general of R.D.C. of Burkina Faso handed to the
leader a written letter from Captain Thomas Sankara, chairman
of the National Revolutionary Council of the Jamahiriyah of
Burkina Faso.
President Ould Taya Returns From Cape Verde
AB170805 Nouakchott Domestic Service in French
0730 GMT 17 Mar 86
[Excerpt] The domestic news today is marked by the visit of the
head of state to Cape Verde. The president returned to Nouak-
chott yesterday at the end of this visit, and on his arrival Colonel
Maaouiya Sid `Ahmed Ould Taya affirmed that this visit
enabled him and his counterpart, Aristides Pereira, to review
their bilateral cooperation and also to seek ways and means to
strengthen it in all areas.
During this official visit by the head of state to Cape Verde,the
two statesmen discussed African and Arab issues, as well as those
of common interest.
Lamrani III, Laraki Named Acting Prime Minister
LD142028 Rabat Domestic Service in Arabic 1600 GMT
14 Mar 86
[Excerpt] His Majesty has announced that he has decided to
appoint Dr Azzedine Laraki, Minister of National Education, as
acting prime minister due to the health of Prime Minister
Mohamed Karim Lamrani, who requires treatment and rest.
His Majesty the king siezed the opportunity to laud Mohamed
Karim Lamrani for his loyalty and honesty and for his deeds as
prime minister. His Majesty wished Mr Lamrani a quick recov-
ery so that he will be able to resume and follow up his task in the
service of the homeland.
His Majesty lauded the moral and humanitarian attributes and
the efficiency of Dr Azzedine Laraki in his governmental posts,
giving him instructions and valuable advice within the
framework of his new tasks.
Declassified and Approved For Release 2012/02/07: CIA-RDP05-01559R000400410027-1