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Article: Libyan leader arrives in Jordan for summit.
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- United Press International
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- March 26, 2001
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AMMAN, Jordan, Mar 25, 2001
Libyan leader Col. Moammar Gadhafi, accompanied by a large delegation, arrived Sunday in the Jordanian capital of Amman to take part in Tuesday's Arab summit.
Gadhafi was received at the airport by Jordan's King Abdullah II and was the first Arab leader to arrive in the kingdom for the summit.
The Libyan leader's participation in the first so-called ordinary Arab summit to be held in more than a decade came after he refused to attend an emergency high-level meeting in Cairo in October that focused on the bloody confrontations between the Palestinians and Israeli forces in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
He ...