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Libya: President Gaddafi
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Libya continues to maintain strict limits on what can be said or written in the country. Libya’s penal code, for example, punishes with life imprisonment or death anyone convicted of disseminating information that conflicts with the constitutional principles or the country’s "fundamental social structures" or that tarnishes Libya’s image abroad. Criticism of President Gaddafi is punishable by death.21
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Sunday, 22 April, 2007: European Womens' Lobby (EWL) will start a campaign in support of the five Bulgarian nurses sentenced to death for intentional HIV infection in Libya. EWL deputy president Martine Levy gave the proposition during a regional conference on equal rights held in the Bulgarian town of Kazanluk, Darik Radio reported. EWL aims to promote women's rights and gender equality in the EU. Forum participants approved a resolution in support of the nurses. They appealed to similar women's organisations to join their initiative for finding way to help the nurses. Over 400 organisations, part of EWL will get information on the project.
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Foreign Military Relations: After his 1969 coup, Qadhafi closed U.S. and British military bases in Libya. Although he rejected Soviet communism, he established a relationship with the Soviet Union through large arms purchases from the Soviet bloc. From the 1970s on, nearly 60 percent of Libya’s military imports were from the former Soviet Union as well as other communist countries. In 1984 Libya and the Soviet Union issued a joint declaration of a treaty of friendship and cooperation that would obligate the Soviet Union to aid Libya if attacked, but the treaty was never concluded. According to an August 2004 report of the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies, Libya had security agreements with Algeria (2001), Italy (2003), and Tunisia. Libya intervened militarily in a potential coup situation in the Central African Republic in 2001, deploying 200 of its soldiers to act as a presidential guard.
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There are two branches of government in Libya. The "revolutionary sector" comprises Revolutionary Leader Gaddafi, the Revolutionary Committees and the remaining members of the 12-person Revolutionary Command Council, which was established in 1969. The historical revolutionary leadership is not elected and cannot be voted out of office; they are in power by virtue of their involvement in the revolution. The revolutionary sector dictates the decision-making power of the second sector, the " Jamahiriya Sector".
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The BBC reports that the six medical professionals "were flown from Tripoli to Sofia early [yesterday] at the end of a three-day trip to Libya" by French President Nicolas Sarkozy's wife, Cécilia, and Benita Ferrero-Waldner, the European Union's External Affairs Commissioner. For some time, the E.U. and the United States had insisted to Gaddafi that, if he wanted to improve his regime's ties with them, he would have to resolve the medics' dubious legal situation.
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"I am happy that President Deby assured me he would stick to the Tripoli accord," Abdel Salem Triki, number two in Libya’s foreign ministry in charge of African affairs, told reporters after meeting the Chadian leader. "Chad is committed to improving and normalising relations with Sudan," said Triki, who had been sent by Libyan leader Qadhafi to try to get the fractious neighbours to mend fences after the latest upsurge in violence. [Sudan Tribune]
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