Leader of the Great Libyan Revolution Muammar Muhammad Al-Qadhafi arrived with an official visit t Minsk on November 2nd, 2008. It is his first visit to Belarus. He was met by Aleksandr Lukashenko at the Minsk Airport.
Al-Qadhafi is going to stay in Belarus for two days. He is expected to visit the Belarusian State Museum of the Great Patriotic War and lay a wreath to the Victory Monument.
Lukashenka said positions of Belarus and Libya are similar, and offered "Brother Muammar" to stay longer in Belarus. "We have similar approaches to the issues of the world order," Lukashenko said at the negotiations in Minsk.
"What concerns ideological basis for our relations, we have similar approaches to the issues of the global order. Both we and you think that the world should be multipolar. This is a principal and basis of any system. We have seen what the unipolar world can lead to," A. Lukashenko said.
A. Lukashenko noted that Belarus is happy to see Al-Qadhafi's victory on the international scene."
"We know how hard it was for you to live under international sanctions, unlawfully imposed on your people," the Belarusian ruler said.
Noting that Libya is a nonentity member of the UN Security Council, A. Lukashenko said that Belarus "likes the independent policy of Libya in the United Nations". Speaking about trade and economic relations between the countries, Lukashenka said that "sales volume doesn't reflect the potential of the two countries". He told to Al-Qadhafi that "there are no closed issues for our cooperation." "We welcome your support of our country, we will work with Libya and welcome Libya's specialists and businessmen in Belarus," A. Lukashenko said.
The leader of the Libyan revolution stated that this "this visit will become an impact in the development of Libya-Belarus relations". Al-Gaddafi said he had met with Libyan cadets and officers, studying in Belarus. "They said they are glad with their study here and the skills they had received there," Al-Qadhafi said.
Besides, the leader of the Libyan revolution told that "the world has become unipolar due to disbalance of forces." "UN principles are not observed, all international norms are violated," Al-Qadhafi said.
Al-Qadhafi noted that "Libya has passed through a difficult period of international sanctions". In this connection he stated that "it was Belarus who extended the hand of friendship to us". As said by him, the visit of A. Lukashenko to Libya in 2000 laid the groundwork for bilateral cooperation. "I have come here to promote our relations, and to reinforce them," al-Gaddafi said. "We hope to see our friend in Libya once again," he noted.
In his turn Lukashenko stated that he would visit Libya "with great pleasure and interest". "I will come with a concrete result. In order to visit Libya once again, we shall work even more intensively," the leader of the Belarusian state said.
"Brother Muammar, we have just agreed on main directions of cooperation. I think that members of your delegation would specify many issues by the end of the day, developing our agreements," Lukashenka said and offered al-Gaddafi to stay in Belarus longer.
Summing up the results of the Belarusian-Libyan talks held in Minsk, a convention on avoidance of double taxation, protocol on cooperation between Justice Ministry of Belarus and the Chief People's Committee of Justice of Libya were signed.
Besides, a memorandum on understanding between the State Standardisation Committee of Belarus and the National Centre on Standardisation and Metrology of Libya has been signed, and an agreement about cooperation between the State TV and Radio Company of Belarus and the State Bureau of broadcast of Libya.
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