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Gadhafi calls for Libyan withdrawal from Arab League, criticizes Saudi peace proposal
By KHALID AL-DEEB Associated Press Writer
SIRT, Libya, Mar 02, 2002 (AP) -- Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi called for his country's withdrawal from the Arab League and criticized the Saudi proposal offering Israel peace with the Arab world.
Giving a speech Saturday aired on state-run TV, Gadhafi urged his country's lawmakers to withdraw Libya from of the Arab League, which he described as "ridiculous" and "unable to arrive at any solutions" to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Gadhafi also slammed Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah's proposal to offer Israel peace with Arab nations in return for the Jewish state's withdrawal from occupied Palestinian lands.
"What are the reasons behind such a shocking proposal? Saudi Arabia was our (the Arab world's) reservoir, the one country that did not indulge in cheap bargaining," the Libyan leader said in the coastal city of Sirt.
His speech was delivered on the 25th anniversary of the establishment of popular rule in Libya.
The Arab League is expected to hold a summit in Beirut, Lebanon, on March 28, at which Abdullah is expected to ask Arab leaders to accept his land-for-peace proposal. Abdullah has run Saudi Arabia since his half brother King Fahd suffered a stroke in 1995.
"This is a summit which cannot come out with any concrete decisions," Gadhafi said, who added that he had lost faith in the Arab League following a recent visit to Libya by its secretary-general, Amr Moussa.
"I asked him (Moussa) will we go to war with Israel. He said: 'No.' I asked him will we boycott Israel, and he again said: 'No,"' said Gadhafi, who sees the elimination of Israel as one of the goals of his revolution.
Later Saturday, an Arab League spokesman in Cairo issued a statement saying Moussa will fly to Sirt on Sunday for "urgent" talks with Gadhafi to "discuss the new initiatives concerning Middle East peace." It did not mention Gadhafi's speech.
Abdullah's proposal offers Israel recognition, peace and trade with the oil-rich kingdom and the other Arab states in exchange for Israeli withdrawal from all the West Bank, Gaza and part of Jerusalem.
The plan has received backing from the United States, United Nations, European Union, the Palestinians and the only two Arab nations to have signed a peace treaty with Israel - Egypt and Jordan.
Gadhafi made his own proposals to end the worsening Israeli-Palestinian conflict - calling it the "White Book" - saying Israel must allow Palestinian refugees living in other Arab nations the right of return, dispose of its weapons of mass destruction, and establish a combined Palestinian-Israeli state called "Isratine" with Jerusalem being a place where people from all religions can gather.
Known for his eccentric remarks, Gadhafi surprised Arab countries a year ago when he proposed that Israel join the Arab League on the condition of withdrawing from east Jerusalem and other Arab lands it seized during the 1967 Middle East war.
Experts have said that it may be tough for Abdullah, the Saudi crown prince, to get some of the more radical Arab nations, such as Libya, Iraq and Sudan, to accept a plan calling for full relations with Israel
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