LUC MICHEL'S
LEADERS
LEADER
FROM FEBRUARY 09, 2005
“LIBYA NEWS & FACTS”, ISSUE 1931
HISTORICAL VISIT
OF THE FRENCH DEFENSE MINISTER IN LIBYA :
THE NEW STRATEGIC COOPERATION
BETWEEN FRANCE AND LIBYA
Since
a few weeks, French newspapers are developing a new anti Libyan
campaign, leading by the Zionist press, like the radical Zionist
“Proche-Orient Infos”. The reasons are very simple : they want to stop
the new strategic cooperation between Libya and France.
But
they fail ! Because this revolution in the strategic situation in
Africa and Mediterranea is an increasing reality.
The
French press is very shy this week over the arrival of the French Defense
Minister in Tripoli this February 4, Michele Alliot-Marie, in a visit to the Great Jamahiriya.
She
was received at the Airport by the Assistant Secretary of the General
Peoples Committee for Foreign Liaison and International Cooperation and
Director of the Central Institution for Researches and Purchases of the
Armed People. Responsible for the Technical and Navy Affairs, Director of
Logistics department at the Armed People, and the director of the European
Department at the General Peoples Committee for Foreign Liaison and
International Cooperation also took part in the welcoming ceremony. A
number of officers of the Armed Peoples, ambassador and members of French
embassy to the Great Jamahiriya were also at the airport to welcome the
French minister.
The
Libyan-French talks began immediately, in the February 4 night in Tripoli,
attend by General Abu Baker Younis Jaber and the French Defense Minister.
The
talks were attended by the Secretary of the General Peoples Committee for
Foreign Liaison and International Cooperation and Director of the Central
Institution for Researches, Industries and Purchases of the Armed People,
the Responsible for the Technical and Navy Affairs, the Director of
Logistics and Production department at the Armed People, and the director
of the European Department at the General Peoples Committee for Foreign
Liaison and International Cooperation. For the French side it was attended
by Under-Secretary of the Defense Ministry, the political advisor to the
French Defense Minister, Director of General Department of armament,
assistant Director of Strategic Affairs Department at the Ministry and
ambassador of France to the Great Jamahiriya.
The
talks discussed the ways and means to develop and promote the relations
between the two countries especially in the military field. The purpose of
the talks was discussions with the specialists of the Armed People related
to the bolstering of bilateral cooperation in defense and the
modernisation of the Libyan Army.
After
this talks, the Leader of the Revolution, Moammar Gaddafi, received
Michele Alliot-Marie.
The
French Minister conveyed in the beginning of the audience, the greeting
and profound appreciation of President Jacques Chirac to the Leader of the
Revolution and the renewal of his interest in realizing further
consolidation and development of the Libyan-French relations. The
French Defense Minister told the Leader that her visit comes at the behest
of President Chirac, and based on his keen interest to embody the mutual
trust and the productive and constructive developments witnessed by
cooperation relations between the two countries which are old relations.
“We
have to work together in the face of all challenges to establish strong
strategic relations between the two countries in all fields”, she said.
The,
she offered gift to the Leader, it was sword of the Polytechnic Academy,
the French High School that graduates the most elite French officers, and
the sword that symbolizes knowledge, wisdom and power.
The
audience was attended by members of the delegation accompanying the French
Defense Minister, the Director of the Central Institution for Researches
and Purchases of the Armed People and the Secretary of the Libyan people's
Bureau in France.
This new cooperation is considered by specialist in military and geostrategic affairs as a revolution.
LUC MICHEL