Kadafi, Schroeder Hold Discussion
Eager to capitalize on the suspension of sanctions against his country, Libyan leader Moammar Kadafi met Tuesday with German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder on the fringes of a summit here of African and European nations.
Afterward, Schroeder said the meeting was “cordial and productive.”
Details on the content of their discussion were not immediately available.
Kadafi, emerging from decades of international ostracism, wants to project himself to Africans as a man willing to champion their causes. But with economic benefits in sight, he also wants to build on growing relations with Europe after the suspension of U.N. sanctions last year.
The embargo on oil industry parts and air travel was suspended after Libya last year handed over for trial two suspects in the bombing of a Pan Am jetliner over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988.
A final declaration and a plan of action that were to be approved Tuesday by summit participants--representatives of the 52 Organization of African Unity and 15 European Union nations--include a dozen points on the issues of human rights and democratic principles.
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