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Libyan leader to skip Mediterranean summit in Paris: reports

PARIS, July 2 (Xinhua) -- Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi is not expected in Paris on July 13 to attend the heads of state and government summit to officially launch President Nicolas Sarkozy's proposed Union for the Mediterranean (UPM), according to official sources.

"The Libyan leader will not attend the inaugural summit on July 13... This does not really call for grief," according to sources within the French presidential palace.

While presiding over the official opening ceremony of a mini- Arab summit in Tripoli on June 10, Col. Gaddafi had forcefully rejected the proposed Union for the Mediterranean, describing it as an ...

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