VOL. XLI

No. 30

27-July-1998

LIBYA

Libya Urges Arabs To Defy Embargo

Libya has called on Arab states to join African countries in ignoringthe six-year-old embargo against Tripoli, after three African leaders defied UN sanctionsand flew directly into Libya. On the heels of the latest OAU summit, Burkina FasoPresident Blaise Compaore flew into Tripoli on 20 July and according to reports, diplomatson the UN Security Council's Libya Sanctions Committee said he had not received permissionfor the...