VOL. XXXII

NO. 24

20-MARCH-1989

LIBYA

Qadhafi Abolishes State Trade Organizations

The Libyan leader, Col. Mu'ammar al-Qadhafi, has ordered the abolition of a]lstate import and export organizations and their replacement by the privatesector or groups of individuals, as part of what he described as "a transitional period which will be followed by the people's Jamahiriyah." In aspeech delivered to the annual meeting of the General People's Congress(parliament) in Benghazi on 2 March, Col. Qadhafi...