Gadaffi joins Harare summit
NZPA-Reuter Harare The Libyan leader, Colonel Muammar Gadaffi, now embroiled in renewed confrontation with the United States, has flown in to make an appearance at the NonAligned Movement’s summit conference at Harare yesterday. Before he left Tripoli
Libyan officials said Colonel Gadaffi would need 1500 bodyguards to keep him safe in Harare. But on arrival at the Zimbabwean capital the only visible security was one woman guard. Colonel Gadaffi, dressed in a green flowing robe, said the week-long meeting of the non-
aligned group, which started yesterday, was its most important to date. It was significant it was being held in a neighbouring State to South Africa “close to the struggle against apartheid," he said.
Colonel Gadaffi’s attendance could have a dramatic impact on the
meeting, which has attracted about 50 heads of State or government from the 101-member Third World organisation.
The conference was staged in Zimbabwe largely to focus world attention on neighbouring South Africa and international opposition to apartheid.
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