EGYPT: LIBYAN LEADER MUAMMAR GADDAFI ARRIVES IN CAIRO FOR TALKS WITH PRESIDENT HOSNI MUBARAK

Record ID: 648606

  • Title: EGYPT: LIBYAN LEADER MUAMMAR GADDAFI ARRIVES IN CAIRO FOR TALKS WITH PRESIDENT HOSNI MUBARAK
  • Date: 17th February 2005
  • Summary: (W3) CAIRO, EGYPT (FEBRUARY 17, 2005) (REUTERS) 1. EXTERIOR OF AL-ITTIHADYA PRESIDENTIAL PALACE 0.05 2. LIBYAN LEADER MUAMMAR GADDAFI AND EGYPTIAN PRESIDENT HOSNI MUBARAK INSPECTING EGYPTIAN GUARD OF HONOUR 0.15 3. MEMBERS OF THE EGYPTIAN GUARD OF HONOUR STANDING AT ATTENTION 0.19 4. WIDE OF GADDAFI AND MUBARAK SEATED DURING MEETING INSIDE PALACE 0.24 5. CLOSEUP OF GADDAFI 0.27 6. CLOSEUP OF MUBARAK, PULLBACK TO SHOW WIDE OF THE TWO MEN 0.38 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 4th March 2005 12:00
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  • Location: CAIRO, EGYPT
  • Country: Egypt
  • Reuters ID: LVAB7JMIDDWW8GCB6WWCKFKADD6T
  • Story Text: Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi set to discuss Sudan
    during meeting with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in
    Cairo.


    Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi arrived in Cairo on
    Thursday (February 17) for talks with Egyptian President
    Hosni Mubarak.

    Gaddafi visited Mubarak at the Al-Ittihadya
    presidential palace, where the two leaders inspected an
    honour guard.

    During their meeting, Gaddafi and Mubarak were
    scheduled to discuss middle east issues, including this
    week's assassination of former Lebanese prime minister
    Rafik al-Hariri. However, the main focus of the discussions
    was expected to be the humanitarian crisis in Sudan's
    Darfur region.

    Earlier in the week, Gaddafi attacked U.N. Secretary-General
    Kofi Annan's call for the European Union and NATO to help
    end the Darfur crisis, saying it risked creating a second Iraq.

    Annan urged NATO and European Union officials at a
    security conference in Germany on Sunday (February 13) to
    help in Darfur, arguing that the African Union mission in
    the region was inadequate to the scale of the challenge.

    But in remarks reported on Monday (February 14),
    Gaddafi said: "The brother Kofi Annan's statement is very
    dangerous and stops us from pursuing the African efforts.

    If his statement were to be implemented that will make
    Sudan a second Iraq."
    Gaddafi has close relations with the government in
    Khartoum as well as tribes and rebels in Darfur region,
    which borders on Libya and Chad.

    A U.N. commission of inquiry found last month that
    Darfur's civilian population had suffered war crimes at the
    hands of Arab militias and that these may amount to crimes
    against humanity, although it stopped short of using the
    term genocide.

    Gaddafi's visit to Cairo had been previously unannounced.


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