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Article: Writethru: Gadhafi says he hopes people's congress to approve Libya's withdrawal from Arab League
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- May 22, 2004
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Writethru: Gadhafi says he hopes people's congress to approve
Libya's withdrawal from Arab League Eds: Updates with quotes of
Moussa, more details and backgrounds
TUNIS, May 22 (Xinhua) -- Libyan leader Muammar Ghaddafi said
Saturday he hoped Libya's general people's congress to approve the
country's withdrawal from the Arab League.
Shortly after walking out of the opening session of an Arab summit
earlier the day, Ghaddafi said he was boycotting the meeting in
protest against the pan-Arab bloc's failure to take up his proposal
for a single Palestinian-Israeli state.
"Unfortunately Libya is forced to boycott the summit because it
does not agree to the agenda of the Arab governments," he ...