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LIBYA: A RATHER MYSTERIOUS LIBYAN DELEGATION COMING SOON TO THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT!
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Brussels, 23 January 2004. A Libyan delegation led by Mohamed Ibrahim will be at the European Parliament on Tuesday 27 and Wednesday 28 January to take part in the second EP/Libya meeting. In the framework of this visit, the Libyan delegation will have a working session with the EP delegation for the countries of the Maghreb, led by Gerardo Galeote, and bilateral meetings with the parliamentary groups, and will be received by the Vice-President Renzo Imbeni and, subject to confirmation, by the President of the Parliament Pat Cox and the President of the Foreign Affairs Committee Elmar Brok.
Statement by Olivier Dupuis, Member of the European Parliament, Radical:
“The information provided by the Parliament services on the visit of the Libyan delegation contains a small mystery. Who is this Mr Mohamed Ibrahim, this Peter X or David Y, the President of the delegation? According to well-informed sources, it is simply Mohamed Ibrahim Khadafi, the cousin of Mouamar El Khadafi. It would perhaps be better to know. Just as it is perhaps useful to know that Mohamed Ibrahim Khadafi is a former leader of the ‘Revolutionary Avant-garde Committees’, an organisation which was responsible in the years 1976-1977 for purging the University of Bengazi of all non-revolutionary elements, in other words of all the supporters of democracy, including Mr Daboub and Mr Bensavoud, who were executed without trial. Mohamed Ibrahim Khadafi has also been Minister of National Education, establishing sadly notorious tribunals within the Universities where ‘suspect’ students were judged and then executed by students loyal to the regime. Some might retort that there is nothing very surprising about this on the part of a regime like that which has been in power in Libya for almost 40 years, and that if we want to renew dialogue with Libya, we can only do so with the regime that exists today. This is undoubtedly true. But is it really necessary to renew this dialogue through Mohamed Ibrahim Khadafi? Is he the most fitting person to reflect the will for change in Tripoli? Is he the most fitting person to understand and to report that for the EU the immediate release of the hundreds of Libyan political prisoners would represent a tangible signal of the reality of the plan for reform?”.
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Statement by Olivier Dupuis, Member of the European Parliament, Radical:
“The information provided by the Parliament services on the visit of the Libyan delegation contains a small mystery. Who is this Mr Mohamed Ibrahim, this Peter X or David Y, the President of the delegation? According to well-informed sources, it is simply Mohamed Ibrahim Khadafi, the cousin of Mouamar El Khadafi. It would perhaps be better to know. Just as it is perhaps useful to know that Mohamed Ibrahim Khadafi is a former leader of the ‘Revolutionary Avant-garde Committees’, an organisation which was responsible in the years 1976-1977 for purging the University of Bengazi of all non-revolutionary elements, in other words of all the supporters of democracy, including Mr Daboub and Mr Bensavoud, who were executed without trial. Mohamed Ibrahim Khadafi has also been Minister of National Education, establishing sadly notorious tribunals within the Universities where ‘suspect’ students were judged and then executed by students loyal to the regime. Some might retort that there is nothing very surprising about this on the part of a regime like that which has been in power in Libya for almost 40 years, and that if we want to renew dialogue with Libya, we can only do so with the regime that exists today. This is undoubtedly true. But is it really necessary to renew this dialogue through Mohamed Ibrahim Khadafi? Is he the most fitting person to reflect the will for change in Tripoli? Is he the most fitting person to understand and to report that for the EU the immediate release of the hundreds of Libyan political prisoners would represent a tangible signal of the reality of the plan for reform?”.
www.radicalparty.org
