Pcific nations ‘in danger’
NZPA-Reuter London The Libyan leader, Muammar Gadaffi, has accused Western Powers of wanting to turn the South Pacific region into an arena of conflict and has called on revolutionary groups there to fight , for freedom. “The small nations of - , the Pacific Ocean are in : danger .. <at the hands of France, America, Britain, Zionism and racism,” he told a conference of revolutionary groups and liberation movements from the area. . ; “They. lair want to transform your region
into one of nuclear tests ... and a military operations theatre in the Third World War. They want to sacrifice you on behalf of the peoples of America and Europe.” m Libyan television, which broadcast the speech monitored by the British Broadcasting Corporation, did? not say which groups fram; the South Pacific .were attending theLConference in the Libyan coastal city of Misratah. Colonel Gadaffi. ifold delegates to begin "gathering the force fighting tor freedom” when 1 ; they returned to their Country.
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Press, 24 April 1987, Page 6
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